Isaiah 61:4-7
H,
There
is nothing bigger than the thing God wants you to do. This is a fact. There is
nothing grander than the idea God has for you. It does not advertise itself in grandeur
but it will surpass anything the limited mind can think up and anything the
limited heart can dream of. We are focused on the temporal statues of greatness
while God is pushing us towards the unending wells of influence. We want to be
in history books while He wants us to be the books through which all human
history is read. There is a large wall between the idea you have of yourself
and the real being God thought up at the start of you. One is a shadow and the
other is the sun.
I remember
when we first saw the movie “Bruce Almighty”. The thing that bothered me the
most was that the main character was given all the powers of God and all he
wanted to be was a better reporter of the news, a better lover, and a better
version of all his present reality. It did not seem to occur to him that these powers
had an overlying weight into all of eternity’s streams. In resolving the plot,
the point was made that one had to be unselfish and particular and content. Fine
principles but not the sort of things you need omniscience or omnipotence to learn.
There is a dearth of imagination of what any of us would do if we had the full
colour of deity in us.
Perhaps
this is all earth is. The school to encounter the contrast between knowing,
being, becoming, experiencing and finally coming alive. This is of course a
gross simplification. There is too much unabridged suffering in the world to
just peg it all down to a lesson in spiritual manners. It is more accurate to
say that these two streams run together: the immediacy of our mission in life
and the expanding nature of the kingdom of God coming alive in our individual
souls.