Beach Church

This morning 9 of us loaded up in a car and headed to White Sands Beach to have beach church. Once we arrived there we set up speakers to an iPod had a worship service and then we all shared what was on our hearts. As I was sitting there with the sand between my toes and the sounds of the waves crashing in the background, the Lord reminded me of something. It was a simple realization, but made a rather profound impact. I looked around the table and it hit me, there were people from all over the world present. England, Australia, Sweden, and the States were all represented. I was reminded that regardless of the fact that even though we are all from different countries, different home towns, different religious backgrounds, different occupations, and very different comfort zones we were all there for the same reason. The love of Christ had compelled us to leave our normals and head to a country that was not our own. This is a place where we can put all of our other difference aside and bring focus to the driving source of our lives. It was not about what each of us are going to get out our experiences in Liberia, It was not about the new and exciting adventures we will encounter while here, it was not even about the growth we will be subjected to. We are simply a bunch of ordinary nobodies trying to exalt Somebody. It is often easy to forget what compels us, it is even often easy to forget the compeler, it is always good to take a moment to readjust yourself on what matters most.


For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:14