Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Maybe It's Not So Great.

During a conversation with a great friend recently, I was spouting off about my views on God's call on my own life. I talked about how I feel that God put desires in my heart which he allowed me to pursue and has opened doors so that I could use them. I talked about how I had gone to one of my professor's in college my senior year expressing anxiety about my unknown future and how he said to me, "Alicia, I don't think God cares what you do so long as you are serving Him and serving others." I remember I was so offended at the time because I had thought I had this great purpose and reason to live.. and when he said that it took me for a loop. But I have found that he was right.
My friend and I (mostly me..I talk too much) talked about how some people have specific callings and some people make bigger impacts than others. I think about all those army's in the old testament. Thousands of people, yet, we only know the leader's name. Then my friend says, "I believe some of us have defining moments. Like Esther. Her life's purpose was served in a moment." What a great perspective, I thought. We know little about Esther's life before she was chosen to go before the king, and little after. But an entire book of the bible was written detailing that moment she spoke out and ultimately saved an entire people group. That was her defining moment, and one of greatness that God had planned for her. He made her beautiful for that very moment.
There is not one answer or one way that God uses people. And there is not one specific way that is the best. Whether it be many moments or one moment, God does what he wants.