Can taking a risk be loving?

Today I began packing up our house. Mainly the kitchen got packed today. During the kids nap time I sat in the floor wrapping up dishes listening to a message by John Piper. I love this man (i don't know him personally, but I like to pretend that i do!) ;) It was about risks and the cause of God. Perfect timing for me to hear this message, as my heart is a little or a lot sad that we are moving in two weeks and leaving all of our things (no dishes, furniture, etc. going with us) and all that we are so comfortable and familiar with.

Some days I wonder if Steve and i have just lost our minds. What are we doing? What kind of people uproot their families, taking their two babies away from everything they know, to a far away land that we know practically nothing about. Who quits their job, with steady income, to raise support, counting on the Lord and the body of Christ to support us through this season. It doesn't seem so easy to follow the call of God, when you have to explain to a 3 year old why you are packing up his room and that you can't guarantee that we will come back here to live. May not seem like a big deal if you are reading this, but when it is your child and this home is all he has known....it is his safety net...he feels secure here....his toys are here....his neighbors are here...it is hard to pull him away from all of this. It is hard when you feel like you are disappointing parents and siblings and hurting their hearts because you will not see them for an entire year. Taking risks for God doesn't seem that loving does it?

But wait...Mr. Piper said something pretty profound to me today. We are taking risks everyday, living in a sea of ignorance, as we do not know what will happen in the next five minutes, five days, five decades. Our God doesn't live in this ignorance! He knows EVERYTHING and we know NOTHING!

Praise Him! My home is NOT my security, my LORD IS! This world has nothing to offer me and if I were to think that disobeying God and staying stateside to remain safe makes sense, I am very wrong. This would be a true tragedy. Security and safety doesn't depend on my earthly place, but my spiritual state.

What if you or I took a risk and God made it successful! What if we took a risk and the result was that one or two or many heard about Jesus and He turned their lives around?

I am not going to live for security, but for love!