I sit there listening, in a room of other people, its moments like these that you try to soak up as much as you can, not wanting to miss any of the details. Taking to memory every bit of it so that you will not so soon forget it all. But sometimes there is just so much. Sometimes life can be so much to take in and figure out and think about.
While my head is overwhelmed, my soul knows to do the opposite. And maybe it doesn’t realize it always so quickly, but eventually I’m always reminded, reminded to go back to the point of quite, the point of surrender, the point that matters.
And I’m reminded that it’s really not all that difficult.
We, we are the ones who overcomplicate it all, and when we do, we need to remember whose stage we are on. Remember the role we were called to fill. Remember the One whom we are following. Because when we look back to the Cross and what Jesus died for, the details and complexities fade. For there is no room for that here, not in a moment like this, not when we are at the feet of our Savior.
It’s as if the wind turns for a moment and a corner of your life lifts and you get an unexpected glimpse of the underside of things. . . His plans and His ways, it seems to steal a bit of breath from the common lung.
It’s if you could see the underside of your life, you’d see that God is over all the details of your life.
Why would we dare to worry when the Creator himself has a hand in every detail, in every twist and turn, in every part of our being. He is there, over and in all of it.
So why would we need to worry about the details.
There is a bigger picture, and I know when I forget to see it, then my head can so easily get caught in the details, and that would leave us missing the greatest story, the one that is unfolding before our very eyes. There is a bigger picture than you and me and the ordinary lives, there is a call, a commissioning, and a demand as believers, to reach those outside the gate.
How could those, on the inside of the gate, forget the reason why they are on the inside of the gate?
They are there for such a time a this. . . right now.
You are where you are for such a time as this. . . not to gain anything. . . but to risk everything.
You are where you are for such a time as this. . . not to make an impression. . . but to make a difference.
This is the stage we walk on, this is the story we are living. This call, this commissioning; it was for right here, right now, for you and I to walk out fully.
And so what in the world are we all doing for such a time as this?
We are here right now to hear the groaning of this upside down world, and to let it shake us from the inside, so as to remind us that we were given this life, so we might use it to give life to others. If you life isn’t about giving, then how are you to find real life? What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?
We are here to make His name known, and to be the hand that reaches outside the gate to those who are loitering at the periphery.
This is why we are here, and this is who we are here for.