Do You Know?
April 10, 2017
I imagine that you know this, but in case you have forgotten, you are a very important part of something that is far bigger than yourself.
You are integral to something that without you is not complete and without which you are incomplete. I know it is a mind bender of a concept, but your life and success are interwoven with the lives and successes of the many upon which you rely to encourage and equip you for greatness.
We are a part of each other. In giving we receive; in encouraging, we are encouraged; in helping we are helped; in lifting up another, we are lifted up. It is a timeless, eternal, and enduring principle with divine authorship and perpetual power. And it is for you to exercise.
In affirming your own place in the greater scheme of things you are not abandoning humility; you are applying it. You are not becoming prideful; you are overcoming pride.
In letting God love you through you, you are not becoming narcissistic; you are accepting a gift that is being freely, graciously, and extravagantly offered by one who desires nothing better than for you to receive it.
You are qualifying yourself to be a conduit of love, acceptance, encouragement, and empowerment for others. Not to accept such love and affirmation is to take yourself out of the roll that others disparately need for you to embody this very day. As you pass through the maze of responsibilities that are yours within the next 24 hours, there will be divine appointments which have been calendared for you so that you can add value to the lives of others.
Someone is waiting for what only you can give them. If you have not first received it, you will be ill equipped to give it. And if you do not give it, you will not be open to receive the one they have been entrusted with for you.
In case you did not know or have forgotten, your success at being the you that you were made to be is vital to someone else becoming the person he or she was made to be. It is your calling to be yourself, fully, faithfully, joyfully, and successfully.
It is not just about you, but neither is it without you. I have shirts that never leave the hangers in my closet because they are missing one tiny component - a button. You are never so small or insignificant as to not make a big difference.
You are you and you are special.
Credit for Art: http://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/All-Gods-Critters/Bill-Staines/9780689869594