Fast Food, Target, and poor directions….

It was a cold winter day in Minnesota
And I had a nasty cold mind you, that I walked into a Target thinking I would grab some food at the Pizza Hut at this Target.  So I walked up to the person at the counter and was going to buy the food I wanted so she asked “what kind of Pizza do you have?” and I told here, than she asked “Is that all?” and I said “I want a drink, just give me whatever size is normally in the value meal”.  At this point she looked at me, clearly not understanding what I was asking for and started telling me what size of drinks they had, which seems odd sense normally all value meals have the same, normal, sized drink.

Now I often think that there are very few things in life more annoying
Than talking to an employee at a store or restaurant that doesn’t really know what the store they are working at has and so they end up, simply, making getting what you want harder because they don’t know what they are doing and they can’t help you because they don’t know where stuff is in the store.  So you end up walking around aimlessly hoping you will either find what you want or find someone who knows what they are talking about or worse, I think anyways, standing around for 15-20 minutes while they call a Manager. 

I have now got to a place in my life where I avoid workers in stores
Even when I don’t know where something is, because I so fear finding that employee who has no idea what is going on and has clearly spent to much time on break and not enough time finding out where stuff is in the store.  Target is by far the worst too because the employees, or should I say Team Members, are told to go up to people and ask “Can I help you find something?” (or something like that) making it very likely that if you are to find me in a Target you will find me walking fast down one of the back aisles trying to avoid the people wearing red shirts and Khaki pants.  And this is what makes fast food so painful for me, other that the fatting food, is that fact that you can't get away. Its like when you go to a fast food place at some point you have to order food from someone and there is a chance they will not have any idea what you are talking about, I can’t stand that (to bad this hasn't made me stop eating fast-food).

It was another day in Minnesota, most likely cold, 
when I realized another one of my greatest fears. 
A fear that still hunts me and I still avoid just like those workers at Target.  The fear is a simple one. It is a fear that I believe many of us have a problem with but are to afraid to do anything about it.  What this fear is is the fear that I will be one of those people that don’t know what they are talking about, that I will be more of a hindrance than a help and I will force people to avoid me.  But the thing here that I am so afraid of not knowing anything about is not the layout of a Target store, or the menu at Wendy’s but the fear that I will be faced with a question about my relationship with Jesus Christ that I can not give an answer too. 
I must be honest now and say that when I started writing this post I was planning on going into a long talk about how today’s Christians are uneducated about the Bible and unwilling to change and are often as annoying as those employees that don’t know where stuff is, but as I started writing I came to see that I, Adam Nash, am just as guilty of being uneducated, unwise, and annoying as any other Christian person today.  And it is in this time that I have come to understand, or be reminded of, is that God doesn’t ask for us to know everything.  He doesn’t ask us to never be lost, or confused, or doubt, or never say “I just don’t know”, he simply asks us to keep growing and learning and he will be there to help us out when we get lost and confused and don’t know what to say.  And I think this is something God is working on me right now and I can only say at this moment that I feel like he is growing me both in my knowledge of him and my dependence on him.  Some day I will be with my Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven and I will be able to learn about God for eternity, but for now I will simply allow God to grow me and learn how to depend on him when the fear of not knowing shows its ugly face and trust that God will have prepared me for this moment even though I feel unprepared. 

(Originally posted on 1/19/11 on my old blog.  Thought it was cool enough to move here.  Even if it is 80 and sunny out today in Minnesota, not cold and snowy.)