When ever, Where ever, What ever

I seem to be in a little funk lately. Everything in my life seems a little unsettled. From my home, to my car, to my job....It just seems that I can't find that comfort zone or safe place. I have tried to step out in faith and go in the direction that I thought God was leading me in, to find that the door was slammed right in my face, and I am kind of shocked. I have said Lord I thought this was the thing you were leading me to, but its not. This has been a hard struggle for me cause in the past when I have stepped through the door it has opened up all the way...or at least that is what I thought...I have heard people say, God has a purpose for your life find out what it is and do that. As I have "searched" for this so called purpose I find that I am let down. I think our christian culture has gotten so caught up in the "What does God have for me mentality". When did we ever decide that this christian life is about what God has for us. That He is there to help us, to make our lives better, that the plans and ideas I have for my life God is there to make them come true. As I have been searching the scriptures and also my own heart I have realized that our Creator, Soveriegn God is not concerned with the plans and ideas I have for my life...He is concerned with the purpose and plan He has, and carrying that out through the lives of his children His saints. God wants to be glorified and honored. Just because we may have a dream or are really good at something does not mean that is God's "will for our lives" God's will for our lives is to serve Him in whatever capacity that may be. Whether you are a janitor or a pastor do all things to the glory of God.

Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,as working for the Lord, not for men,since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

It doesn't always mean big grandious things are going to happen to you. It means you are faithful in serving Him Whenever, Where ever, What ever....Not to say that God couldn't use you in "large" ways, but that is never his goal...that would be an outpouring of the effective ministry you already have. We all need to get off our high horses thinking God is going to fullfill all our dreams. He may not...We need to go to His word first and then we will know what His will is. If it doesn't line up with scripture....sorry its not His will. And it doesn't matter how much you think it is or other people are saying that it is.
There is a qoute by Oswald Chambers that I keep in my office that humbles me every time I read it.

"We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing, that He is preparing and fitting us for some extraordinary thing by and by, but as we go in grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, in this present minute. "

To those who read this may you be comforted and humbled in knowing that we trust and serve a God who doesn't needs us to accomplish anything, but wants to use us as his vessels so that He may be glorified through us. May you lay your "dreams" at His feet and be ready for where ever he leads you even if it its to your own back yard.

20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21