This is my third instalment on my blog series “Discovering The Best You” based on the new Apple smartwatch commercial, from which I wondered if a smartwatch can really help you be a “better you” Because the truth is there is a better you in you and God wants to help you discover it and live a better life.
Let me start with a question, when was the last time you went on an adventure? I mean a real adventure where you decided to go somewhere and do something you have never experienced before. Like me it’s probably been awhile. Remember the days when you packed a brown bag lunch jumped on your bike and rode until you were by a river or on top of a hill? Why don’t we do that anymore?
It seems that at some point in our lives we start playing it safe because we believe that going on adventure presents to much risk, or is too time consuming or costly. So we settle for safe patterns of existence and call it life. But remember what happened when we went on those adventures? I do. I experienced things that gave me a new perspective about life.
I remember the first time I went camping. I thought I knew what stars looked like until I saw them from the top of a mountain. Amazing! I remember the first time I surfed a wave. I thought water was easy to control until I experienced its force. Exhilarating! I remember the first time went to another country. I thought I understood culture until I tasted a real taco. Delicious! I remember the first time I saw real poverty in a 3rd world country. I thought I knew compassion until I met a real need. Life Changing!
Our lives were designed for adventure and not playing it safe. That’s why when we try and find the safe path through life, we miss the best that life has to offer us. To experience your best in life it’s time for life to become an adventure again. You can go on an adventure today to begin to discover the best you right now. You can put up a tent and sleep in the backyard tonight. You can buy a meal and go out and give it to someone who is hungry. You can cancel your vacation to that place you always go and go on a mission trip to experience life beyond yourself. It’s time to stop playing life so safe and start living the best adventure ever!
"That’s what I mean: Risk your life and get more than you ever dreamed of. Play it safe and end up holding the bag."- Jesus
