Back to Basics

I'm a baby trying to learn how to drive without first taking the time to learn the motion of walking.

In my heart, I'm eager. Eager to go BIG for God, eager to sacrifice, eager to live incarnationally.

But what I'm realizing is that we need to be utterly and completely sold out to God on not just the BIG things. Obedience is not just to the ends of the world and to oppressed communities of the poor, obedience is waking up every day saying Jesus, may my thoughts, my words, and my deeds be glorifying to You today. Obedience is an active surrendering of the day-to-day yucky sins like pride, jealousy, lust.

Then one day, when we've become so used to this attitude of obedience, God will call us into something BIG for His kingdom and it will be so natural to say YES because we've been doing it all along.

I'm a big picture person. Ask any of my study buddies and they will tell you that I'm the one asking the "What does this mean?" question. I'm afraid, though, that the big picture without the details is never really complete. It's like one of those mosaic puzzles, a bigger picture made of lots of tiny ones. Without the beauty and the presence of those smaller pictures, the big picture would never exist.

So, as we desire to go BIG for God and to follow Him to the ends of the earth, let's begin by going back to the basics and surrendering every day, every moment to Him.