What have you done today?

Our lives were meant to be full of adventure and excitement. The trouble is that too many of us have given up on thinking that life is anything more than what we're currently living.

Bored? Feel as thought you're going no where?

Over the past few weeks we've been pushing the book 'Do Hard Things' and have been trying to stir ourselves to live a life that is counter-cultural, that is - different from the norm.

Here are the 5 hard things that you can challenge yourself to do and be like. Think about what you could do for each one, write it down and ask a friend to challenge you on whether or not you're doing it.

1) Something outside my comfort zone:
2) Something that goes beyond what is expected or required:
3) Something that’s too big to accomplish alone:
4) Something that doesn’t earn an immediate pay-off:
5) Something that challenges the cultural norm:

Let me tell you quickly about a man who did somethings that were especially hard. George Muller, a German who lived a century or so ago. He moved to Bristol to be a missionary where he was confronted by a real need - street kids and orphans. In a day where children who lived rough were being rounded up and sent to work in factories and institutions similar to labour camps George Muller felt provoked by God to do something about it. What did he do? He opened his home and welcome them in to live with him and his family.

Over time the number of children who found themselves coming to him for accomodation grew and so the need for a bigger house and more money to to provide for these children became more and more evident. George prayed. He trusted God and time after time he saw God do incredible things, providing meals/money/support anything that they were in need of.

A man who lived near the house where the children were housed is quoted as saying 'whenever I doubted the existence of God or wanted some evidence of his existence I would look up the hill to the house that George Mulle used to care for the children. Seeing the lights on in the windows proved to me that God does answer prayer and is at work in people's lives...'

What will you do? How will you go out of your way to prove God? I'm asking myself the same question, I want to live for God more than I currently am. Let's partner together to prove God, to follow Jesus, to dare to believe that God can use us in the lives of the people we're surrounded by.

The truth is that you're as close to God now as you want to be. He has made himsefl available to us, all we need do is trust him and follow him wherever he leads... please God, don't let us waste our lives