Golf Course REAL-LIFE

Do you ever find you ever find yourself randomly on a golf course?
Today me and a good friend Andy found ourselves in the most beautiful January day in history. Like the kind that are 60 degrees and totally sunny. It was amazing so we did what any self respecting guy would do-we hit the golf course.
(*disclaimer* Just so you don't go any further and think i love golf i want to clarify that it was Frisbee Golf, the one sport Jesus would have really enjoyed.)

So there we were playing the first game of Spring on possibly the nicest day we would see in ages. And it seems to me that it must be the weather but i always seem to encounter God in some way on that course.
Its like that "field of dreams" analogy- 'Build it and they will come', but mine is more 'Play a lot and i will come"
Anyways me and Andy played about half-way through our game and then the question was popped: What has Jesus been teaching you lately?
That is such a deadly question, but being the danger seeking people we are we entertained it.
That is also why i love this question, its so dangerous. I mean like its not really going to matter what you really say because a year from then you probably won't ever remember what you discussed but I think its a huge danger- a huge testing to see just how real you are willing to be not just with yourself but out loud.

Isn't that how we are today? Scared to be real? Look around how real are you to one another, and i don't even mean with your struggles here and there or even with your willingness to talk about what God is doing in your life. I mean how real are we when we think about the world around us? If its so bad off what are you really doing? Is happiness all that Christ gives you? Are you really being persecuted for your Faith? Is that persecution from more than just the other side of the spectrum, or is it those that are closer to you?
It seems like today its easy to just ignore the world, its even easier to talk about how bad off it is, and its the easiest to try and work against it by putting your ideals of following God on a world that has no desire to want to follow. But how real is it to truly live differently, to be set apart so far that it makes everyone but Christ uneasy. Don't get me wrong, you need to know whats right but how far are you willing to go to know something before you execute.
I think in the it basically comes down to one question that Andy challenged me with:
What would Christ be doing if he was in your shoes right now?
How real and deep is that question? If you don't get it try reading that again.
What would Christ be doing if he was in your shoes right now?
That question still leaves me just as puzzled as much as Andy was with it on his own. What would Christ being doing right now if he were you. That sounds so cliche but getting to the heart of it burns me every time. Its a bad feeling to be showed up, and i understand if this were a competition that i would definitely lose. But this is deeper than that, If i am to be an imitator of the King, to be as a dearly loved child how am i doing that?
I guess in the end I am sick of inaction. Or maybe i am sick of knowing i am inactive and that i can change it. I think its best stated in the lyrics to the popular Switchfoot song, Meant to live


Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's bent for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly

[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

Dreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken

[Chorus]

We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life, yeah

We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live