We spent childhood dreaming of doing BIG things.
We wanted to do crazy ridiculously awesome things. We wanted to do things that mattered, things that would make a difference.
We had plans to write books, travel, start a non-profit, speak in front of thousands, basically anything that would make us look cool while also impacting others.
This was reinforced by people constantly saying,
“God’s got big plans for you. He has something great in your future.”
W soaked up every single inspiring word and we thought, “Yeah! I can feel in my bones I was made for something big.”
Then we got busy with high school and then college and we went through our days believing that these moments were going to prepare us for the big important adventure that lay ahead of us.
Some of us got married along the way or moved back in with our parents or jumped into those full fledged careers. Some of us are living in cramped apartments scrolling through websites trying to find a real job while eating pizza rolls and streaming Netflix.
The thing we all share is that a lot of us are sitting here, looking at our lives thinking, “What’s so big and great about all THIS? What happened to God’s AWESOME plans for me?”
We keep hoping and waiting for our moment. You know, our big moment that changes the entire course of our lives and the lives of others? We want our David moment where we slay the giant and are finally crowned King. They always told us that if we spent enough time in the “field with the sheep”, that we’d eventually get to slay the giant. We were told that our big moment would soon come.
But what if doesn’t?
What if THIS is your big moment?
What if God’s big plans for you were to have you here in this place for such a time as THIS?
God wastes nothing. And I could try to inspire you by saying you are being prepared for something better but maybe you’re not and if not, what then?
We can so easily forget that where we are NOW is just as big and important as where we may be going. We are stuck always waiting on the next thing and looking down the road towards our future. We refuse to embrace our present as our calling. We forget that the small everyday things can be the truly the big things.
Waking up to go pick up your drunk friend at 2:00 a.m. can have just as much impact on a heart and the world as a Summer spent serving in Haiti. A long conversation with a co-worker can provide just as much inspiration and encouragement as if you were speaking to thousands.
I am not saying there isn’t more than this. I am not discouraging you to seek out all that God has for you. What I am asking is that you stop telling yourself that God can only use you in big and glamorous ways. Because you could do all those crazy big and awesome things but at the core of it, wasn’t it supposed to be about loving people? That’s the thing you are always called to, now in this moment. To LOVE. Love is the one thing we have for sure, it’s the one thing everyone is hungry for, and it’s the one thing we all have to give. So maybe at the core of it, that’s God’s big and awesome plan for all of us. You can make a difference.
The way you live and the people you choose to love DO have an impact on this world.
And there is nothing small or ordinary about it.
There is nothing small or ordinary about you.
Be yourself. Love Big. And Let God do something great with all the little parts of your life.
Great encouragement for such a time as this.
Very thoughtful and well written.
Loved loved reading it