At the moment my friend Camron is in Ghana serving as a teacher for a missionary family. He sent an update a few days ago, and I wanted to relay it due to the impact that it had in my own reflections.

     "Recently I went with several local missionary kids on a “field trip” to the Accra Zoo. Of all the animals that I saw there, the one that brought me

      most anguish was the lion – The King of the Jungle. I watched him for an hour or so, just to see what a day was like for him. He moved from one

      end of his 6x6 foot cage to the other. He lay down a few times trying to find a nice, cool spot of concrete to lie on. He would just yawn, go limp,

      and fall to the ground. Is this how a KING should act? Is this how a KING should live?

      A KING IN A CAGE??

      It doesn’t seem right or natural, yet there he was. And as I studied him, I realized that we as “Christians” do the same thing to our KING. We have

      put bars around Him. We keep Him in a cage. We allow ourselves to be able to look at Him through the bars and even speak to Him when we need

      to, but from a safe distance. We feed Him at our convenience with our prayers of need. We show Him off to others as they pass by in our selfish

      pride. But we often don’t get too close to Him. That might be too dangerous. We seldom let Him out to roam, what would other think? And we dare

      not climb in with Him. Think of how He would rip us apart and expose the real us to the world. But the truth is, He will do that and we fear Him for it

      because  He is wild. But regardless of a cage or the open range – He is WILD. And that is what makes His love so dangerous, yet so appealing

      and satisfying. Yet we often open cages to lovers less wild to control our lives.

     So, I leave you each with a specific question for your lives. If you were caged what would you want people that visit you see? That you and your

     faith are safe and tame or that you are wildly in love with the KING of KINGS?"

His question taunts me...what would I want people to see? Well, I know what I would WANT : for the radically wild love of my Lord Jesus Christ to fill and overflow from me, enabling people to see whatever they want. When the love of Jesus overflows from me, I don't think it will matter what people will see because I know it will be the Lord. Even though I want that, it doesn't mean I'm necessarily allowing that to occur. I care too much about pleasing people or others' good opinions of me.

Maybe "what do you want people to see" isn't the best question; rather, what are you ALLOWING God to show other people? Are you allowing Him to show the ripped out reality of His wild, radical love?? Thankfully, we have a God who wants us to wait upon Him and let Him work! I may not have that radical love flowing from me, but I
am willing to wait for whatever God wants to do in me!
PRAISE HIM that He desires to work in our lives rather than watching by idly as we do it alone.