Don't Short Change Yourself

I wonder sometimes if we have given short change to God? I wonder if we have over simplified him, if we have made him smaller to fit our picture, instead of growing ourselves to allow for the immensity of God.

I have come to believe that God can see beyond what our world judges as good and bad, 

he can see beyond the rich and poor, and he can see beyond the beautiful people and the marginalized and he can allow for all of us to be saved.

 

Many of us can’t get our head around nothing is impossible to God. We live in a world where we are reminded regularly

·       how we are not good enough

·       smart enough

·       generous enough

·       tough enough

We are reminded that we need to achieve and obtain and hoard our worldly goods so someone doesn’t take them away from us. Just look at the proliferation of the various storage facilities in our community.

We are focused on the immediate, because we have accepted our cultures attitude of what is good for me is good for me!

I spent most of my career in senior management role, trying to lead, manage, direct and  control the future of the business. I have discovered over the past few years that I control nothing and I never did. I have discovered that I need to focus on what God has called me to and I frankly need to let go. I have discovered that if I stay out of the way and cooperate with God, things seem to work out pretty well.

I see first hand every day that it is in the poor that God reveals

·       his compassion

·       his generosity

·       and his love for all of mankind.

You see those of us who are rich have too many distractions. We have desires that not in line with our following Christ and we are so caught up in our own world that we will have a hissy fit, if we miss a traffic light or can’t find a parking spot or life doesn’t go as we have planned.

We are afraid to contemplate on what God has called us to do, because we are concerned it will conflict with what we think we desire.

We are afraid, because we truly don’t trust that we can interpret what God wants us to do and we might make a mistake.

Minimizing ourselves and God, is not what we are called to do. 

 Prayer contemplation and action are what we are called to!

Growing our faith to encompass an all forgiving kind generous and loving God is what we are to expect!