I often ask the question, “If you could do anything and knew it would succeed, what would it be?” For many people something immediately comes to mind. But there are also many people who don’t know. They wonder all the time, what does God want from me?
What we do need to remember is that God has gifted us all differently. My pastor, Dr. Mark DeYmaz, talked about this on Sunday. There are some people whom God uses to dream. Some people are to manage. And some people just want to do the daily task He’s given them . . . and there’s nothing wrong with that!
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Big Picture Dreamers
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Managers
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Workers
I’m a dreamer (as if you couldn’t guess that!), but my favorite people are those who can help me live out what I envision! When I started a pregnancy center—or now working with teen moms—I could not do what I do without those who come alongside me.
In the world’s eyes my writing is the most important part, but as we just opened our home to two more kids through an adoption, there have been many moments during the day as I’m playing cars or have kids piled on my lap and I feel God saying, “This. This is exactly where you need to be right now.”
I get torn between that big dream and the daily sized things. When in the middle of each one, that is the thing that feels the most important, but then it feels like they conflict with each other, and it’s hard to balance them. The only thing that gives me that balance is God in the middle of each one.
Yes, Angela! We do have to trust God’s direction. There are times I wake up with plans to write and God speaks, “Focus on those kids.”
Then there are days when I’m going about my daily-life stuff and I feel God drop a message in my heart with the direction, “Write that NOW.” It’s amazing how many of my BOOKS have come out of those moments!
I had a lecture in college one time that the speaker said, “Every Christian Should have a dream so big that only God himself can fulfill it.” That phrase has stuck with me, especially as I realize my own inadequacies in even the simplest things. It’s my dream my children will be raised and come to love Christ with all their hearts. It’s sounds simple but truly only God can fulfill it.