Many things about me are very...normal...un-exciting...maybe even boring...I don't have a problem with any of those words describing areas of my life...but there is one word that I have heard a lot lately that I am not ok with.
Ordinary. Ordinary. Ordinary...according to Merriam Webster's dictionary, one of the definitions of this word is: " the regular or customary condition or course of things —usually used in the phrase out of the ordinary" .
I will not go there with you...sorry...I am many things (and you are too), but ordinary/common/is NOT ok...I am ok with not being the most exciting, not being the most talented, not being the most of anything. But I don't believe for a minute that you & I were made to be (in my best eyore voice) just average.
God didn't have to make me...or you...he chose to make us...I don't know everything about what that means, but I do know that the God that placed the stars in the sky and molded the earth to get it just the way he wanted it, if that God chose to make me (and you too) that it is worth me believing in what He started when he created me. Maybe I won't cure cancer, or play in the biggest game/series of my favorite sport, come up with the next dance craze (ala kid'n play, macarena, or the dougie...it's on youtube...I'm not making it up :-), but the God of the universe created you & I for extra-ordinary things!! In the world, in the country, in the state and city he has placed us for this time-He has created us for something amazing, not because he needs us to pull it off, but because He never sends his second best. I will say that again. God never sends his second best...if you and I weren't the best person for the jobs God has given us for this season-he would send someone else!!
When I sing my favorite Steven Curtis Chapman song or attempt to cover a John Mayer tune at an event, there is nobody better to sing/connect with that group of folks for the purpose God has than me...or he would send his best...
God is not at all surprised or caught off guard at the things that we never saw coming...the easy stuff, the hard stuff, he allows us to walk through and some times run through our day-while he is beside us. Riding the highs with us, and crying with us in the valleys. He is 100% engaged with us.
I tell kiddos and their parents all the time, 1) God made you & me the very same way-out of nothing-in our mother's body (Ps. 139:13), 2) the same God that made us has a plan to take care of us and not to hurt us-to give us a future and a hope, and he will answer us when we call on him/search for him with all our heart (Jeremiah 29:11-13), and 3) the same God that made us out of nothing even when he didn't have to, has a plan to take care of us and not to hurt us, to give us a future and a hope-is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
I don't always believe the truth about me, sometimes I just believe the facts...my circumstances, my "stat sheet" and forget the truths of who Jesus says I am...the truth of what he did for me. My prayer for you & me as we close out this year and get ready to dive into the next, is for us to believe that there is nothing ordinary about us or the God we serve. Still working on progress, but am so glad to remember the truth of who God is and who he wants me to be :-)
mike in-progress
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