i DARE you

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. 

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i DARE you to ACT

like NOAH 

i  DARE you to BUILD an ark

with no storm cloud in sight 

without the expertise

i DARE you to CONDEM THE WORLD; what others think.

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i DARE you to GO

like ABRAHAM 

even though he did not know where he was headed

like a stranger in a foreign country he lived in tents

i DARE you to OBEY.

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i DARE you to consider him FAITHFUL who made the PROMISE 

like SARAH 

she was barren

like ABRAHAM 

one man who was as good as dead 

i DARE you to BELIEVE.

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i DARE you to be FEARLESS 

like Moses' parents

they hid him from Pharaoh for months

they weren't afraid of the King's edict

i DARE you to SEE, he was no ordinary child. 

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i DARE you to SAY NO

like MOSES 

he refused to be known as the son of Pharoah's daughter

he chose to be ill-treated along with the people of God

For the sake of Christ! 

i DARE you to LEAD the way. 

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i DARE you to STEP OUT

like THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 

they passed through the Red Sea

as if on dry land. 

i DARE you to TRUST

like REHAB the prostitute

she took in the spies

i DARE you to DO WHAT IS RIGHT. 

i DARE you to be sure of what you hope for 

i DARE you to be certain of what you do not see

i

DARE 

you

XOXO

Chido Dziva Chikwari 

This blog post was inspired by two major incidences and a number of minor ones. In the past few years I have mustered an "I do what I want attitude" mainly because I got tired of doing stuff because someone else said so and I want to please them and also because I realized that at the end of the day the only person that's going to be held accountable for how I lived my life is ME. Weather I'm happy or not is founded on a series of decisions made by ME. Soooo for the past few years I've learnt to step out, listen to advice, weigh it out and then do what I want. Obviously I've made a few mistakes where I've thought "hmmmm I probably should have listened to nhingi"  but ultimately I have no regrets. I accept that what I did was defiantly what I wanted at the time and I make sure I learn from those experiences.  

The above has led me to be sort of stubborn and to make some BOLD decisions. Decisions where I'm THE ONLY ONE doing a particular thing, decisions where I've had to trust my gut and most importantly trust God because when it came to crunch time it would just be me and him up against the wall. In a few months time I will be embarking on a huuge journey...one that I will be taking 'alone' and as I was thinking about it my mind sort of wandered to the heroes of the faith (HEBREWS 11) and that's where this blog post got all it's UMPH! Many of them where men and women, young and old, who dared to believe and dared to step out based on their FAITH. They all stood apart from the crowd and wrote their own stories. Stories different from anything that was the norm, stories that have touched generations and generations and from that I'd like to challenge anyone reading this blog post to emulate some of those traits. You never know :) 

"If I sink I sink.

If I win I WIN!!!"