I was listening to the Air1 app on my phone one day on my
way to work, which is a contemporary Christian music station, when a listener
called in and told his story. Basically
he had fallen away from his faith and was in a really bad place. One day he decided to go and have Chinese
during lunch, which he confessed he wasn’t the biggest fan of. As tradition has it, he got his fortune
cookie, opened it and found that infamous little piece of paper but what it
said floored me. Now, I can’t remember what
it said exactly but it was something like, “God can heal, all he asks for is
our broken pieces.” The guy on the phone
went on to say, “Really God? That’s how
you’re going to get my attention?”
God is not picky about how he speaks to us. When God wants to tell you something, he
does; it’s all a matter of whether or not we listen. But sometimes our inner monologue gets in our
way.
This morning, however, “Rise” by Danny Gokey came on the
radio and I felt an overwhelming sense of God saying, “Listen!” So I quieted my mind and listened to the
words being sung.
“You were made to rise... You were made to
shine!”
That’s when I heard Him say, “I’ve got a plan for you. You will
rise and shine for the world around you.
I will have you shine for me.
Your ministry will flourish for this is the reason as to why I
made you.”
I have suffered from self doubt all my life and had told
myself that I was a failure, that I wasn’t good enough but God reminds us that
he made us for a purpose, for a reason.
He didn’t create you or me to just sit around and watch the world turn …
He made us to RISE from the depths we put ourselves in and then SHINE for the
whole world to see.
What do you feel what God has created you for?
