Did That Just Happen?

 

Did you ever get the feeling that you are being watched? Or that maybe that person you talked to isn’t really that person that you talked to? Or that your life is pretty much like the Jim Carrey movie, The Truman Show, and you don’t actually know what is real?

I do. Sometimes I wonder if the stranger I just talked to was an actual person or an angel. Whether things that happen during my day “just happened,” or were arranged.

I think we have been tricked into thinking that things just simply happen. That we live in this random story of actions and events, but have no part or roll in what actually happens in the story. I am just supposed to go about my life, mind my own business, work hard, keep my head down and keep walking. I have no sphere of influence, what happens has no eternal meaning. And that I am just a person, a speck in the midst of millions. I have no ‘shine,’ nothing to offer. Some people were born great, but not me.

I think most people believe this lie and we walk around numb. Numb because ‘life is hard,’ or ‘it hurts to much to forgive,’ or ‘that person is just unlovable’ or ‘they need to change before I do, after all, they are the one with the problems,’ or ‘I never have enough money.’

I think we have been numbed on purpose to make us less effective. And we have become very easy targets by basically letting ourselves ‘rot’ away with our laziness and apathy. We think we can’t change, so we don’t.

If I believed I was fearfully and wonderfully made…brilliantly made, and was living out this belief, that would be very influential wouldn’t it? So, why don’t we believe it? Believe that each of us has something brilliant to offer?

What dulls our brilliance? There are many ways we are dulled. In fact, if I was looking at us humans from the outside, I think it would be quite easy. How about a little discouragement for one?

I am often dulled by the lie of discouragement. Dis-Couragement. I feel that I don’t have any say in the matter. Phrases like, ‘it is what it is,’ go through my mind. Or the lie that the course of my life can’t be changed, or ‘my future looks so depressing’, or ‘how are we going to make it?’ The lies go on and on. My courage is dismantled, knocked down, flattened. And I walk around head to the ground unengaged, ineffective, tarnished, dead.

We live in a battle for our lives. A BATTLE. A battle for our minds, souls, a battle even for our courage. Just think how effective we would be in a battle if we were brilliantly using our gifts! We would have strength! Our voices would be heard, we would make a difference in this world! Can you imagine? But, the lie is that life is nothing more than a monotonous grind of dailyness. Millions of people living in a fog, angry, unforgiving, slothful, and uninspired.

What were you created to do? Who are you and why are you here? Do you know? If not, than find out! If you do, than are you doing it?!

Let’s not let the fog of life dull our brilliance. Or diminish our effect on the world.

You were created with a purpose, I was created with a purpose. I am in full pursuit of mine, are you?