My Plans

I was created for something greater. No more (no more status-quo)--taking the ordinary and making it into something great is God's way of getting glory (although, he didn't create anything ordinary anyway). God created something in each one of us that is amazing. It needs to be unearthed. Some have had others stomp the seed far into the ground. There is no excuse to stay there. (Seeds don't grow well in the dark.) Some may have been planted in dry ground. There is no excuse not to grow. (Seeds don't grow well in hard earth.)

God is bigger than any circumstance that we have ever faced. He is bigger than those that have tried to stomp our dreams or quench our thirst for more. God is bigger. (Strangely enough, He's got the whole world in his hands is playing in the background right now...He really does!) I get lost in his bigness, in his magnitude--and forget about drawing in close to his heart. If his being expanses infinitely in all directions, I cannot grasp it. But, if I can just just draw in, just get in close enough to be in his heart--that's where I can dive in deep and stay focused, move in rhythm with his heartbeat.

If the something greater is great in my mind--how much greater is it really in God's plans, if they are higher than mine, he holds all time and is in control of everything--it just takes my breath away that he would have intricate details planned out for my life. Why do I choose not to trust him--to strive for my own greatness instead of striving to be closer to his heart? If I could just sit still in it and listen--stop making my own plans and let this heartbeat become my own, be so intimately close that our breath is the same...

Then I wouldn't be so focused on making great and wonderful plans for my life; I'd be focused on the Great and the Wonderful who is my life.