Your Place in the Story
Where are you in God’s story? what is your role? Have you ever spent some time to think about these enormous questions?
I know that I have always been told that I have a purpose, and God has a plan, and that everything in this world has a purpose…. and in no way am I wanting to challenge that belief today. But I think that these are questions that need to be thought about, need to be digressed… need to be asked.
It was interesting for me to sit down the other day on the lawn of my favorite place in the entire world, Belmont University, and just let the presence of God overwhelm me. As I laid on my back looking into the vastness of his creation all around me, almost as if I was covered in his eternal blanket… this question began to arise. I had begun to believe deep down inside that my time here was intentional. purposeful. meaningful. The problem I saw was that there was nothing in my life that I saw as “eternal” things that I was working on… nothing that I could point to and say, this must be God working in my life.
I don’t know about you, but at this moment I began to get a bit caught up in that powerful thought. The difference for me is that I know deep down inside that God is always working… he is always tweaking… he is always crafting a masterpiece in each of his children. God has some incredible things planned, I just wasn’t keen enough to be able to pull them out of the craziness I was caught in.
I realized on that night that God is the God of not only me, but also the world and city that I am currently entrenched in! The problem for me, is that I get so used to the normalcy [or at least what I call it] that I miss the greatness of God. Everything from the simple fact that I woke up, I live on a planet that is a big ball of gas rotating at thousands of miles an hour, and spinning around a gigantic ball of fire. This is life, and unique in that. I miss out on the inevitability that life is great! I get too caught up in the fact that there are people in this world that are designed to bring you down. I get too caught up in the overwhelming amount of work that has to be done. I get caught up in the fact that a friend betrayed me. I get caught up in the fact they never called back. I get caught up in the fact that he dropped the ball. She never said sorry. He crossed the line. She hurt my feelings. He stabbed me in the back. She doesn’t like me anymore… These are the things that I focus on and in the midst of this I blur the crystal clear reality that God is on my side… and wants me to be a part of something bigger!
So the next time you get caught up in the normalcy of life, the things that we don’t even cherish as great things, remember that you are part of the grand story that is always changing… always growing. You are a part of a story that wants to impact the people around you… change the city you live in… and impact the world you stand on.
“For greater things have yet to come. Greater things are still to be done in this city!” - Chris Tomlin.
Challenge the status quo. Be different. Rise up to a new set of standards, and understand the power that God is going to birth in you a vision to motivate the world. People are going to bring you down… but realize that the almighty, glorified, holy, magnificent creator that formed you from dirt will remain faithful to the promise he made.
Let Him revolutionize the way you wake up.
Let Him change the way you deal with people.
Let Him invade your daily walk.
Let Him be Him!