It's Sunday morning. I'm ready for church a bit early and some verses I read an hour ago are still speaking to me. The first one is Psalm 38:9: "Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You."
He knows what I need and what I'd like to have and have happen, all of it. I've put it all in front of Him. But that's not what I want to be wrapped up in. Me getting wrapped up in my stuff and you getting wrapped up in your stuff is normal, common, every-day existence. But that doesn't make it right or good or desirable. It definitely doesn't make it the best way to live. In fact, it's a poor way to live, a way that doesn't end well.
I don't want to be normal, whatever that is.
Billions of people have been normal and being normal in the sense isn't good. Jesus said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:13-14). We don't want to be the kind of normal that goes through the wide gate to destruction. We should want to be special in His eyes and His heart without caring whether the world thinks we're special.
Even as a child, I didn't want to be just another person, just another one of the billions who have come and gone. In football and basketball, my favorite sports, there are a few guys who are difference makers and a few more guys who are really good role players. Then there is the type of player who fills out the roster in the other spots; he can be replaced fairly easily because, as the sports saying goes, "He's just a guy." I don't want to be "Just a guy."
Psalm 39:5 puts it like this: "Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor." If a man at his best is only vapor, what is a man when he's "just a guy"?
God already knows everything I desire and need. All of it is in a pile before Him. He knows that pile better than I do. I want to step over my pile of stuff and step into His heart, be lost in what He dreams about and what He's passionate about. I want to be a man after His own heart. After all, He is THE POTTER. I'm His clay, made by Him and through Him and for Him. My "raison d'etre", my reason for being, is to bring Him happiness. My raison d'etre is to fulfill the who and what and how of what He had in mind when He first thought about me in the far distant past, to love Him so much that He'll someday say, "Now THAT was worth it."
To continue growing as Believers in Jesus, we must get over our piles of stuff and lose ourselves in His. We must fall in love with His heart and what's on it. Seeing Him happy must become our chief joy and greatest delight. May He move us towards that goal, moving further and faster, sooner rather than later, overcoming whatever is in our lives and in His creation that's in the way.
He knows what I need and what I'd like to have and have happen, all of it. I've put it all in front of Him. But that's not what I want to be wrapped up in. Me getting wrapped up in my stuff and you getting wrapped up in your stuff is normal, common, every-day existence. But that doesn't make it right or good or desirable. It definitely doesn't make it the best way to live. In fact, it's a poor way to live, a way that doesn't end well.
I don't want to be normal, whatever that is.
Billions of people have been normal and being normal in the sense isn't good. Jesus said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:13-14). We don't want to be the kind of normal that goes through the wide gate to destruction. We should want to be special in His eyes and His heart without caring whether the world thinks we're special.
Even as a child, I didn't want to be just another person, just another one of the billions who have come and gone. In football and basketball, my favorite sports, there are a few guys who are difference makers and a few more guys who are really good role players. Then there is the type of player who fills out the roster in the other spots; he can be replaced fairly easily because, as the sports saying goes, "He's just a guy." I don't want to be "Just a guy."
Psalm 39:5 puts it like this: "Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor." If a man at his best is only vapor, what is a man when he's "just a guy"?
God already knows everything I desire and need. All of it is in a pile before Him. He knows that pile better than I do. I want to step over my pile of stuff and step into His heart, be lost in what He dreams about and what He's passionate about. I want to be a man after His own heart. After all, He is THE POTTER. I'm His clay, made by Him and through Him and for Him. My "raison d'etre", my reason for being, is to bring Him happiness. My raison d'etre is to fulfill the who and what and how of what He had in mind when He first thought about me in the far distant past, to love Him so much that He'll someday say, "Now THAT was worth it."
To continue growing as Believers in Jesus, we must get over our piles of stuff and lose ourselves in His. We must fall in love with His heart and what's on it. Seeing Him happy must become our chief joy and greatest delight. May He move us towards that goal, moving further and faster, sooner rather than later, overcoming whatever is in our lives and in His creation that's in the way.
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