big things

so i just finished watching the movie Extraordinary Measures and i realized how much i love hearing stories about people just fighting for what they want. how someone just makes a decision, sets a goal, and then goes after it and because they do that and dont let anything stop them, no matter how crazy - big things happen. people are affected and impacted. i just kept thinking how God calls us to huge, seemingly impossible things and when we decide to just go and follow after Him with everything in us...big things happen and there is an impact. us taking the big steps for Him gives Him permission to move in us and through us and just rock everyone around us and there is no telling how far the impact will reach.

crazy how movies and stuff can just speak to the very depths of us, huh? i would say God has used art and drama and things like that the most to speak to me over the years. from a quick 2 minute drama to a look at a painting to a 2 hour movie or a 3 minute song...God speaks. and those visuals hit you in that moment, but then stay with you forever. a lesson in an image.

something cool God is revealing to me is this...

for example...

some people have the minds to read and understand and study - and then speak and teach that message.

then there are some people who have visual minds, they can hear that message, read a passage just see it, a picture just forms in their minds.

now...what if one never shared their way of thinking with the other?

what if the artist never got that picture out of their heads and into a drama or onto a canvas?

what if the person who read and studied never spoke the words out loud or wrote them down?

here is the revelation (and it might seem obvious, but its hitting me in a new way lately)...

we have a responsibility to identify our gifts and then learn them, practice them, use them...because what we have been given - not everyone has. what we have to offer will complement, teach, impact the other members of the body.

which in turn will lead/help them to learn and use their gifts, which might reveal something new to you, and its a beautiful beautiful cycle!!!

but if we ALL dont embrace our gifts and actually use them...it wont work.

not everyone has the visual mind, and not everyone has the intellectual mind, or everything in between.

we were designed to work together and complement each other.

and for me personally im realizing that almost everyone learns from a visual. almost everyone has been affected by a song or a painting or a drama or a video...

but not everyone can create them.

so would you agree that it would be the artist's responsibility to take the images they see and create it, get it out somehow so that someone else can see it, and learn from it, and then turn around and apply it to their gifts...etc?

crazy how well God knows us, how well He worked all of this out.

His design truly is perfect.

love it.

so take some time, find out what He has given you, what He wants to use you for and EMBRACE IT. listen for His calling and His voice and know that what He says is the TRUTH...decide to fight for it...and then fight. like i wrote earlier...God will do big things when we take big steps. the key though is to hear Him and follow His call to take these big steps...if we just take big steps or do these things...then we're just doing them.

i cannot say it enough - let God be the focus, let Him lead you in EVERYTHING and just be in awe of all that He is.

because when we really fight for what He is calling us to...big things happen. so much bigger than us.

psalm 51...make this your prayer, let Him cleanse you and purify you and make His desires yours.

and let Him make you the person He designed you to be.

and then embrace it and experience all the JOY that comes with it!