What gets you excited? Sports, a beach, solving a problem, hunting season? No matter what it is, you did not always have the desire and longing to go and do. Someone had to show you what it was or what it could be. Someone had to strike a spark of adventure with whatever it is. They took you fishing, or to a baseball game. They took you camping or to the hardware store or wherever.
That little spark that went off inside of you gave you a longing to go back and do it again and again.
What is one thing that you learned to do and were really excited about in the moment or season and then stopped? The spark faded and died due to either time or money constraints. Or the lack of someone to go with you.
We are told in Proverbs 27:17 that "As iron sharpens iron, so one brother sharpens another". Have you ever hit two pieces of iron together? You get sparks. And "where two or more are gathered in My name, there I will be also" Matthew 18:20. Sparks flying everywhere in the name of Jesus is what we should be aiming for.
We have to be willing to step out of our comfort zone and start talking to people. That is how we grow as men of God. We do not start to have a passion for things we have not tried. The first mission trip that I have ever been on was a few years ago when my wife and I went to Peru with our church. That was the spark that led me to be here.
Yes, it can be difficult. But you don't get sparks without friction. And that friction helps us grow. Growing is never easy, but it is good.
Go strike a spark.
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