You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Psalm 139:16 (NLT)
The world is full of small thinkers.
My Australian friends call this tendency the “tall poppy syndrome,” which is slang for the tendency to criticize highly successful people and cut them down to size. Others call it the “crab bucket mentality.” As one crab tries to crawl up the side of the bucket, the others claw him right back down.
These small thinkers will tell you to be realistic. If you have a dream, they’ll poke holes in it or they’ll say, “Oh, I tried that and it doesn’t work.” They’ll try to discourage you because if you excel, they feel bad about themselves. If you’re succeeding in business, small thinkers will think you’ve compromised.
If your church is growing, they assume that it must not be teaching the truth. The reality is that small thinkers haven’t yet wrapped their heads around how big God thinks.
God wants us to live lives filled with joy, purpose and significance!
Psalm 139 talks about how every page of your life is a page in God’s book, and God does not write boring books. You may have dull days, especially when you’re hesitating to live to the fullest, but a dull, safe, morally-correct-but-not-doing-anything-for-anyone life wasn’t God’s design.
Jesus said that He came so that you and I could get a life (my paraphrase of John 10:10). Isn’t that exciting?
Use wisdom, but always remember to take calculated risks, think differently and dream big!
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