If you look in the dictionary at the word ADVENTURE, you will NOT see my picture. It took me seven trips to Disney World to ride Space Mountain. I will stay in a rut forever, as long as I don't have to change.
I have had the opportunity to go on a Medical mission trip to Honduras for the past four years. In my mind, I always thought, "someday, I will go on a missions trip." But, a medical mission? Not my style.
When one of my friends had to cancel her plans to attend the trip this year, she asked me to take her place. I told her I would pray about it. Half-heartedly, I took it to prayer.
Here are my reasons for NOT going.

1. I am not a medical person.

2. I snore. The ladies stay together in a bunkroom. How embarrassing for me to keep other women awake by my snoring!

3. Everyone else attending the trip had a year to get their money together. I would have 6-8 wks.
4. I like comfort. I like my couch. I like TV. I like Pitt basketball and Steeler football.

5. Flying is not one of my favorite things to do.

The organizer of the trip called me on a Friday and basically said, get your act together and make a decision. I asked for the weekend to make a decision and she graciously honored that.
I woke up Saturday morning and said, “I don’t want to go”. End of story. All of the reasons above were on my list.
Saturday evening, I began studying for the Sunday school class I teach. The Scripture for the lesson was from Proverbs 16. Some of the verses really stood out to me, as if they were in capital letters. For instance, Prov 16:9. Spoke to me about my lack of faith! MY PLANS. Hmm. Prov 16:18 spoke to me about my pride re: my snoring. Yikes. I began to get uneasy.
The Lord dropped into my mind the Scripture that talks about ‘whatever you have done to the least of them you have done it unto Me.’ I looked it up. It actually goes like this: Matt. 25:35 & 36: “For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink. I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me. I was sick and you visited Me. I was in prison and you came to Me.”
When questioned, “when did we do these things?”, Jesus replies in verse 40 “….inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these, your brethren, you did it to Me.”
Pretty convicting stuff. I never noticed before that when it talks about the sick, it talks about VISITING THEM. Not being “a medical person that has the skills and knowledge to cure them.” Hmm. Maybe I could offer something on this medical mission after all.
The next morning when I went to church, my pastor’s sermon was entitled, “Embracing Uncertainty”.
He had some great quotes in it. One was “God will call us to places where we will fail unless we totally rely on Him.” Pastor Dan talked about holding on to certainty, and he pointed out the rich young man of Matt 19 who was unwilling to give up a certain level of certainty. Here is the quote that clinched it for me: “The future is uncertain, but we need to move toward it with confidence. There’s a future to be created, A HUMANITY TO BE LIBERATED. We need to stop wasting our time and stop being afraid of what we cannot see and do not know. We need to move forward full of force because of what we DO know.”
Guess what? Jan 18-25, I will be traveling to the country of Honduras. Pray for me!