I can remember so many conversations with friends in high school and college that revolved around trying to figure out “what do with our lives.”
We would sit there and look at all the pieces of ourselves and try to evaluate which were the most dear to us, the parts we wanted to be engaged forever. Because that’s what you think as a youngling entering into society, “What I choose now is what I will do forever”.
And that, my friends, is an ominous thought.
We break our lives into compartments and segments until we rival millipedes. But woven throughout Scripture are examples of continuity and cohesiveness. These are attributes of God, but they can also be seen in things He created.
What really started this thought process for me was reading about the detailed instructions for the Tabernacle given to Moses in Exodus. God is so specific about things like the curtains…what they’re made of, how each piece must be exactly the same length and then they must all be sown together like “one continuous piece”(reiterated several times).
Or how the lamp stand and its base, center stem, lamp cups, buds and petals that were all to be made of one piece of gold.
After reading enough things like this, you start to notice little nuances and wonder what God is trying to hint at.
Sometimes I feel like my mind is in 500 different places at any given time. I can be actively thinking about something, and subconsciously thinking about ten other different things at the same time.
But there are moments where all of the wires run together into one big light bulb. And to one such illumination is where we are currently headed.
Alive within all of us is the Divine.
Genesis 1:27 says that we were created in the image of God.
We bear His image.
So all of us, every single fiber of our being, is by Him, for Him, and through Him.
The sacred is engrained within us.
It’s not some separate entity that we occasionally tap into. Our pursuit of God is not separate from our love of writing or singing or teaching. Our worship of God is not mutually exclusive to living our passion in this life. I don’t know who was selling this notion or why so many of us bought it, but I say, let’s return it for the crap that it is.
God created us. All of us.
He made my brother an excellent chef with a head for things that compliment each other.
He wired my teammate, Sarah, with a crazy ability to pick up and decipher language.
He made me to love writing and to be moved by music.
The details of our lives are not things that get in the way of us serving God, they’re the very tools he gave us TO SERVE!
Since we’ve gotten to Mozambique, each member of my team has been able to serve in an area unique to their gifting. Things we once considered “common”, God has proved to be divine.
Interior Design, Germanic and Slavic Languages, Education, International Business, Journalism…we all bring very different experience and expertise to the Race but this month alone, all of these have been used to further the Kingdom of God in Africa.
Ephesians 4:16
“He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.” (NLT)
“I lean not on my own understanding // My life is in the hands of the Maker of Heaven // I give it all to you God, trusting that you’ll make something beautiful out of me” (“Nothing I Hold Onto” Will Reagan)
