Do you ever have those moments when God expands your perspective and you are completely taken off guard? I do. I start looking at my life and thinking 'OK, I kind of have a handle on this. This is a pretty cool plan God has for my life.' Then God brings me up a little higher and I start seeing more and more of the picture. The only thing I can liken it to is hitting the minus (-) button of Google maps or something like that. What was big and in focus suddenly becomes very small in the grand scheme of things. And I am overwhelmed.
God! Your plan is this big? Whoa! And He just smiles, knowing that the plan is so much larger than even that.
This scene has played out at least four times in my life and seems to be happening with more regularity. This is very cool, very exciting and very humbling. Gaining God's perspective on things really makes life start to make sense. Things that were huge to me before are suddenly shrunk down to their proper size. Conversely, things that I thought were relatively unimportant prove themselves to be part of a far larger picture than I ever imagined.
I realize I am being rather vague in this, but I promise I will share more in time to come. I am just very excited for how things are shaping up with IHOPE and the Vineyard. God is moving (He always has been and always is) and we are just trying to grab a hold of His coattails and follow along. Blessings to you this Advent season!
so, i had a question about your previous post on the amana colonies - is there some kind of tour you have taken? where did you learn so much? it sounds super interesting - maybe at some point we'll take a trip there. (i've only been once, when i was like 6 or something, and all i remember about it is that while we were there my grandpa must've told some joke about how i wasn't a nice girl, but i thought he was serious and it really hurt my feelings. so...not really relevant to anything about the amanas specifically and maybe it would be fun to go as an adult who's NOT hypersensitive...just a thought.)
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