Outrageous // Day Four
What's the biggest problem with the American Dream? You have to be asleep.
All over the country, people are waking up. More than a house, a car, and 2.5 kids, what we truly yearn for is a life of possibility, potential, and adventure. We believe God is able to do more than we hope or imagine, but we're stuck living in the tension between our ordinary life and the extraordinary adventures that might be just around the corner.
This track comes from globe-trotting athlete, Aaron Tredway’s new book, Outrageous.
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Even in positions of leadership and influence, it’s not hard to lose the path of adventure. Aaron offers news of liberation from a life without purpose, calling us to pursue lives of unexpected opportunity amid our everyday circumstances.
Over the next few days, you will be challenged to wake up and embrace a faith that can move, shape, and propel you to love God and those you lead and interact with daily with greater significance.
You in?
DAY 4 – I’m in.
I started college with a subconscious belief that soccer was the only thing I needed to provide meaning, identity, and purpose in my life. I realize soccer might not be your thing. Perhaps your thing is singing, dancing, academics, or film. Your thing could be any number of things; you might not even know your thing, but regardless, I believe Jesus offers you the same invitation he offered me in my college dorm room—it’s an invitation to connect your life to his and experience an outrageous life impossible to comprehend without him.
God has used soccer in my life to open countless doors, create opportunities, and provide some adventures I can only call outrageous. Many of the experiences I have had are connected in some way to my continued involvement in soccer. Soccer certainly isn’t my message, but it’s definitely the vehicle God has used to shape me, refine me, and move me to the most remarkable places, even to Timbuktu.
My soccer career began when I was five years old with a decision involving two simple words—I’m in. Roughly sixteen years, four months, twenty-seven days, eight hours, and several minutes after I wore my first pair of pleather cleats and knee-high yellow tube socks (not that I was counting), soccer was no longer just a passion; it became my profession.
It seems that God loves to use our greatest passions, talents, abilities, and interests to accomplish his outrageous purposes in our life—and also in the world.
Apparently you don’t need an elaborate plan or strategic goals to accept God’s invitation to access the outrageous life he desires for you. You just need to decide. God does the rest. I don’t know about you, but I want to awake to God’s invitation to an outrageous life, and that’s why I’ve decided—I’m in.
Challenge: Think about your talents, your skills and your areas of influence. Now think back to those activities you are regularly involved in. Then …
- Ask God to show you how he can use you in those areas in a new, adventurous, purpose-filled way
- Whether it’s embarking on a new adventure or responding to the your everyday differently, how will you live outrageously this week?
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