Today is part one of six blog posts regarding why I am going to build an ark! May seem a little strange so check out this blog post to see what it’s all about, ‘Time To Build An Ark’. For those who can’t be bothered to click on another post, you’ll find out in part six what I am really building, and no it’s not an actually ark!

Part 1

Over my Christmas break in December 2008 I had a moment that changed the course of my life. I sat in my office at home and asked God one question. The question is one that most Christians would not admit asking. I asked God, “is this all there is?“. Yes I was a Christian and I was unsatisfied with my life.

Now to put things in perspective. I was on staff at a growing church. I was leading a multitude of  ministries, I was teaching every week, I had an office with a huge window, a microwave and a fridge (you know you’ve made it when you have a fridge in your office!). Yet something deep down in my soul was missing. I loved God, had a great prayer life, read my bible regularly and had a great community of friends around me. However, this just wasn’t enough.

I sat there in my office completely unsatisfied with my Christian life, yet there was no reason I should have been unsatisfied, at least that’s what we tell people.

In that moment of questioning, God started to take me on a journey which would change my life forever. The first thing that happened was God answering my question. You see when we ask God a question he does answer, but so often we can’t keep quiet long enough for him to speak. This is what God said. ‘You are unsatisfied because you have become comfortable in doing something that I had not ultimately destined you to do. The place and position you are in now was always intended to be temporary and you are trying to make it permanent!”

Wow! That got my attention. Over the course of the next five days I discovered what it was to wrestle with God. I’ll be honest, that experience was so unique that I can’t put it in words. The result was God challenging me to step out of my comfort zone and step on to the path of adventure, uncertainty, destiny and faith. I muttered these words, “God I will do anything that you ask of me and I will not question you, but I will do it if that means I step into the very meaning of why you created me”.

It was at that moment my life became about something a whole lot bigger than Alex Penduck.

What will it take for you to step out of the zone of comfort and chase after the very reason that God had designed to be created?