God is so good! Duh…but really.
In high school, I sought recognition and acceptance in the drama department. These weren’t really my people, and I always kind of knew it. I thought maybe I could be a light there. I thought maybe after hours and hours of work, after school commitment and special summer camps, I might get a chance to shine. And on a certain level, I did. But I didn’t really feel encouraged. It didn’t ever feel like I was enough. (Good enough, pretty enough, thin enough, talented enough). I enjoyed directing a one-act play and have always loved acting in summer camp skits. But I let this dream go and launched full on into academia, taking on 6 AP classes for my senior year and never going back to drama.
But I have always loved to sing, to act, to direct, to write. I thought I was good, but lacking a lot of confirmation of this fact, I let my dream die.
This month, however, God has revitalized, redeemed and fulfilled that dream. My team performed a skit that I had helped write. I got to direct them. I get to help lead worship by singing. Now that I am living for His glory, God is allowing me to pursue these passions again. Now that I know how to direct my talent in ways that honor him, He is granting me amazing opportunities to use these gifts.
Thank you, Lord, for Giving us the desires of our hearts. You place them there for a purpose and you use them when it’s time to glorify you. Thank you for redeeming my image of myself and my talents this month through this, and helping me know that you have made me exactly as I am for your purpose, and you will use the talents you give me when it is in your time, for your glory. Thanks, God! You’re awesome! The video is of the drama performed by Team Again for the First Time. The song is Love is Here by Tenth Avenue North. It depicts how we all walk away from the Lord, following the desires of our hearts without God involved because we do not understand that he has greater plans for us. That he has living water. That he has rest. That he is salvation. But that we must choose to accept this gift.
Will you?
