As I approach the end of my fourth week in college, I was thinking about the new culture that I've been put in. I realized that I had been living in my Christian "bubble." Sure I talked to people who weren't Christians and I even had some non Christian friends but, for the most part, my life was around other Christians. I would talk to other Christians and live the Christian lifestyle.
Now that I am thrown back into the secular world and what they are taught, I have a renewed understanding of what is going on. I feel like my little "world" I had been living in was an artificial comfort zone created by my parents, friends, and leaders at my church. I had been so accustomed that when you talked to someone they would have a moral base, they wouldn't casually respond with swearing. I was separated from how most people my age have been growing up.
Now that I talk to dozens of people my age every day at school, I have come to realize how incredibly different our lifestyles have been. I feel as if I had been out-of-touch with culture without my knowing. Talking to my unsaved friends I now realize why people are so broken. Why they engage in the activities they do; I realize that these people are begging to hear about God.
I never thought that all these people have a true interest to talk about the meaning of life, why they are here, and that people actually care about them. Today the Gideons visited our college. All these college kids were sitting there with little green Bibles in their hands reading random verses. They were amazingly open to hearing what the verses meant and how it applies to them.
I had never thought that all these people actually wanted to hear the gospel. How long have I been sitting here while I was surrounded by people eager to discuss God? These people didn't appear yesterday and, I'm sure, realize their need for something more at the beginning of the quarter. In fact, as I look back, I see that I have been surrounded by people "asking" me to share God to them. Why had I not!?
I feel that, until recently, I hadn't realized how unsaved the unsaved really were. I had heard and talk to these people before, but I've never been in their lifestyle, gone into their houses, struggled with them, and talked about the issues of life with them until recently.
People are open for the gospel and my question for everyone is; are you just living your life? Or, are you actively pursuing the spreading of God's word. Are we trying to make God famous?
