I’m sitting on my patio right now in a totally new head space. It’s one that is completely out of my comfort zone, but then again, it feels so familiar. It’s Sunday, so I went to church this morning. Now I’m not the type of person that goes out of habit, but out of the need to refresh and revitalize before the beginning of another week. Today’s sermon, “Your oppositions are your opportunities”, was the catalyst of a change in perspective. Throughout my life I’ve been so focused on the drama that comes in my life and those that were against me, that I failed to see the miracles that were around me daily. I never stopped to think about all that God was walking me through! And through it all I was never harmed. Small things, like not having car accidents when at the time they seemed inevitable, or having my mom survive cancer, just to see another day. All these years my perspective has been wrong. I’ve been standing at the wrong place, looking at the wrong thing.
Over the past few months the Lord has changed my perception of me and how I perceive others around me. Trust and believe this has come at the expense of my pride, but that’s a trade I will gladly make. I see so many things happening in my life right now and I’m in total awe of how God is orchestrating it all. A few Sundays ago I gave God my firm yes. Yes, I will work out every gift and blessing you placed in me. Yes, I will go after people you send me to. It was my firm commitment that my soul purpose for being on this earth is to reach out to others and show them the God that walked me through so much.
My life has never belonged to me. It was always His, but He patiently waited on me to change my perception. Now with an alternate view of my life I am going to walk this thing out. I understand that it may not be easy, but my dad always told me nothing worth having is going to come easy. The only exception to that is salvation. You may not know it now, but God is waiting on you just like He waited on me. He gave you so much to do and the only things you have to do are: change your perception and get to work. After service today I found myself looking at the opportunity in the things I used to see as oppositions. I know that God’s hand is on my every move and in the end all that happens around me will work out for my good. It might not make sense. It might not happen as swiftly as I want it to, but He has the map! God is my GPS and He’ll never give me more than the next road or turn because He wants me to focus on the present. Are you so wrapped up in the end product that you are forsaking the journey, or the next step? Learn to treat each step like it is the life changing step because in reality…IT IS! Your next step is the step that you need to take to get the very gifts God placed in you out into the world. Your gift is not for you, but for the person sitting next to you or the person you walk past in the grocery store.
God is calling me out (and has been calling me out for years). The difference in this call is that I hear Him clearly, have a perspective of total trust, reckless abandon, and a firm yes. You hear Him talking to you, so why ignore the very thing He is saying? Why make this process harder than necessary? This has nothing to do with your friends or family. They will either walk with you on the path He leads you down or they won’t. Either is completely fine with God and should be ok with you as well. They may not recognize what God has placed in you, but in the end they only have an opinion. Their opinions mean nothing, especially when God’s plan is the focal point. So stand up, wipe your eyes so that you can clearly see the next step God placed before you, and take the step! Take it with the reminder that Paul left us; “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns” (Philippians 1:6 NLT)
~Divine~
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