There’s this mission trip that my church conference is doing in March. It sounds pretty cool: they’ll be going to South America to meet both spiritual needs (by preaching and teaching) and physical needs (health care, etc.). I heard about it at a time when I was particularly open to “doing something for God”, so I’ve been fairly interested in it for a while. However, the costs ($2000) per participant make me think that the timing isn’t quite right, and other than my interest, I haven’t really seen any evidence that this is what God has in mind for me (however, if one of you readers wants to fund it for me, I’ll take that as a clear sign 
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Thinking about this mission trip has made me think about service, though. This morning I found myself praying, “God, ask anything of me and I will try to give it to you.” Of course, as I prayed this, I was thinking along the lines of grand mission trips and huge, life-altering sacrifices. But then it (finally) occurred to me… every week at The Experience, Ed and Cindy get up front and ask for volunteers for Random Acts of Kindness/Servant Evangelism. I pretty much ignore them—not because I don’t like them (they’re some of my favorite people!) but because I have no interest in the activities (I sometimes have some philosophical issues with them, but mostly I’m just lazy).
So, Hypocritical Sarah, how is that “giving anything” to God that He asks? Well, it’s not, really. Oops. Maybe God is waiting for me to be “faithful with a few things” before He gives me big things; maybe He doesn’t intend the big things for me at all. But I’m pretty sure I’m not supposed to just sit around and pray for him to give me some amazing assignment.
How come it’s so much easier to offer God “everything” than “this one thing”?
