With privilege comes responsibility

I believe with all of my heart that we don't understand how privileged we are. The privilege I am talking about is not living a super awesome life, I am talking about the privilege of us having access to so much knowledge about Jesus.

We take so much of that for granted because it's always there. We all have access to the Bible whenever we want. With the technology we have we can google bible verses about what ever topics we want. We can google questions that we might have. We have all the access we could ever dream of and we don't take advantage of it.

With the privilege we have, great responsibility comes with it.

"Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it." (Luke 10:23-24) 

We are so incredibly blessed to see what we see and hear what we hear. Think about that for second...

There are millions of people all over the world who aren't able to hear what we hear and see what we see.

We are so privileged, with knowledge of 2,000 years of church history, availability of the Bible in hundreds of languages and translations, and access to many excellent pastors and speakers.

We just let this knowledge sit around...

I didn't realize how much I took it for granted until I went to China. China is a closed country so that meant we weren't allowed to talk about our faith or even have our bibles with us. That killed me when I was there. At the end of our week in Los Angeles, we literally mailed our Bibles back home with the fear that we would get caught and kicked out of the country. Every part of me wanted to talk about my faith with the people that I was around, but I couldn't.

I remember having a conversion with our translator in Dali one of the mornings, and everything was about to go perfect. I felt like this was the divine moment where I was going to be able to witness to the translator and really share my faith.

We had built a solid relationship, the days prior and I knew the best way to bring up my faith was to start talking about my tattoos. Each of the three have a story and a purpose and by the time I talk about the tattoo on my achilles is when I can really share about my faith.

We had stopped for some reason, and my coach from the trip came up to me and had told me that our translator worked for the government and I had to be careful about what I was saying. This killed me because the translator was my friend and I wanted to see my friend someday..

After that moment, I knew that I would never take for granted again the great privilege that we have on a daily basis and how responsible I was going to be.

It's still hard to take full responsibility with the privilege we have, but we can definitely start to realize how privileged we are. That is my hope with this post. Never forget how blessed we are with the access and the knowledge we have.