How many of us are actually content with where we’re at? As in our jobs and roles that we find ourselves in? Further yet, how many of us dream of being ‘somewhere else’? 
Now I have a pretty amazing job. I love it to no end simply because I enjoy everything about what my role entails. Sure I have a set ‘to-do list’ and job description, but through it I have been given a huge opportunity to share, encourage, and love other people every minute of everyday! That’s the beauty and for most the ‘curse’…’dealing’ with people, UGH!!
My job and sole duty is people and hearts.
At the end of the day I know that the success of my job has everything to do with the LIFE and LOVE that I release to others’ and nothing to do with how many people did I run through to get my objectives done.
So many of us find ourselves in this very struggle; the “I’m at a place when I desire to be somewhere else simply because ‘this isn’t the Kingdom life I thought it would be'” mentality. It becomes the 9-5 and the “secular” part of our life. (and the “sacred” part is the 2 hours on Sunday morning in the pew) The reality and revelation in my life has been simply the fact that I’m living and breathing for the sole purpose of LOVING OTHERS. I’ve stopped crying out because I felt ‘stuck’. I started to see the blessing of exactly where I’m ‘at’ because it’s about WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE, and not what I have to do to please an angry God. I can control the outcome of my life by making the choice to live in.
When Joseph was in prison he prospered. Why? Because prison was where he was at but a criminal wasn’t who he was. (Genesis 39:21) David wasn’t even invited to the where the meeting was to pick the king, but it didn’t matter because he was the King. (1 Samuel 16:10-1).
We need to get the hint and realize that it’s not about striving to get ourselves into the right place, at the right time, to get somewhere we think we should be and just concentrate on BEING THE RIGHT PERSON! Unemployed may be where we are but it’s not who we are. Financially broke may be where we are right now, but it’s not who we are. Sick may be where we are but it is not who we are. And our address in regards to where we live, in a “not so looked highly upon” part of town may be where we are, but it is not who we are. WE CAN’T EVER ALLOW WHERE WE ARE TO DICTATE WHO WE ARE!
The will of God for our lives is not primarily attached to places or even things, it’s attached to US.Once we realize this we are delivered from the tyranny of doubt that plaques most Christians as they agonize about ‘which option before them is the will of God?’ Is it this place or that? Is it this job or the other? The answer is ‘neither’ because the blessing is not attached to the place or the job but to the person – YOU! You can ‘be blessed in the city and blessed in the country’ because the blessing isn’t in one place or the other, IT IS IN YOU! (Duet. 28)
Our churches aren’t thriving or failing because of where we are but WHO WE ARE!! Not the programs or our objectives; simply our hearts open and engaged with the body of Christ around us!
If any of this is true, is it our current place and space that’s what is the block? Or is it something deeper…like how we’re reacting to where the Lord has us RIGHT NOW! Are we bringing Kingdom to the here and now?! Jesus says that the Kingdom is WITHIN YOU…not by what you have to do!!
Imagine if we saw our current place and environment for the mission field that it truly is…our world view and heart-set would be forever rocked! and the world forever changed, one relationship at a time!
My name is Matt and I find myself here in the Manitoban woodlands exploring, teaching, discipling, and encouraging…not to make a paycheque or to work on my resume…I’m here solely for the fact that I have stepped into my gifting and accepted the call to bring LIFE and ENCOURAGEMENT through the Lord’s LOVE!! My life is Kingdom life! That means I strive to Jesus with skin on here on earth. I fight with integrity for the widow and the orphan as well as serve in humility and grace to those who are caught in the “system” of life…praying earnestly that they may get a glimpse, just a glimpse of His FREEDOM and GRACE that he is calling us to humbly recieve! I can’t see myself living any other life!
