Picket Fences

(sigh)
     I'm Sitting here at Pensacola State College, and it's Fat Tuesday. There's a guy, in the most creepy of costumes, going around handing out flyers for some kind of event that is happening today. But that's not why I'm typing this :).
     Today a line of a song has been running through my head. "Fearless warriors in a picket fence." This line has been going at my brain and my heart all morning, because I just got it. I always wondered why fearless warriors would be in picket fences, and it just hit me today that I'm right. Why would fearless warriors be in picket fences. Shouldn't they be on the battlefield?
     As some may know I've been reading a book called The Barbarian Way. This book has me thinking a lot about what it really looks like to be a follower of Christ. I'm not talking about being an America or being a Christian, but I'm talking about being a follower of Christ who loved, rebuked, healed, preached, set free, and was persecuted for the glory of God.
     So often in life I find that we live on the as close as we can get theology. Which sounds like this. "I will get as close as I can get to the line of following Jesus without loosing my flesh." That's such a dangerous theology though. Makes me wonder if when Jesus said that few make it down the narrow path he was saying to us that only few are willing to cross that line. The line of truly living!
    Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying theres anything wrong with having a picket fence, but I am saying that when Christ calls us to something, we had better not hide behind our comfort zones. We often treat God as if we are the boss, but such is not the case. He is the King and we ought to do what He says to do. I'm reminded in Hebrews of people who did what He said to do. Some became kings and great leaders, and others were persecuted and killed for God's name sake. The bible speaks of those who were killed on behalf of God's name Hebrews 11:³⁸ The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.
   That just doesn't sound very cozy. It sounds like God called them to something and they went for it trusting that He is their life, and He is. He is our lives as followers of Christ that is exactly what we do. We follow Christ out of our comfort zones, and into the valley of the shadow of death, out of our homes, into places where people may pick on us, turn on us, or even try to kill us. We follow Christ to the cross, and we lay down our lives. We lose our earthly lives and we find our lives in the eternal Kingdom of God.


that's what we do.