Staying Small Was Never Part Of The Plan
If you’ve ever been told to
Stay quiet
Stay seated
And
Stay small
Then this blog post is for you, my friend
Because when you’ve heard God’s heartbeat
When you’ve experienced His presence
Staying small was never going to be part of the plan
Period.
Take loud mouthed – salt of the earth – I’ll never deny you, Jesus
Disciple Peter
He had experienced the very heartbeat of God
But when Jesus was being crucified
And a servant girl got all up in his face about him being one of His disciples
He said no
In fact
He denied ever knowing Jesus!!
“Aren’t you one of this man’s disciples? He said, “No I’m not.” (John 18:17 The Message Bible)
Big, bold Peter
Suddenly became small
Intimidation won
Tot-ally.
If the enemy had his way with Peter’s thoughts and actions
He would have made sure that Peter
Stayed quiet
Stayed seated
And
Stayed small
But staying small was never part of the plan
Not for Peter,
First Church Planter
Was his BIG calling
So
Why do we feel like we need to stay small?
When God asks us to do BIG things?
‘Tall poppy syndrome’ is rampant throughout our culture
This epidemic is what I can only describe as a bucket full of crabs
And one crab decides he’s going to get out of the bucket
He’s fed up with his ‘bucket life’
But as this brave, fearless crab starts to climb up the bucket
The other crabs pull him down
Away from the top of the bucket
Grabbing and using their sharp claws
“No crab leaves the bucket” they say
And
“Who does this crab think he is anyway?”
Their reaction makes the brave crab feel intimidated
Until the crab finally has no fight left in his beat up, bruised little body
And so he gives up thinking that he could ever get out of the bucket
The other crabs have made sure he
Stays quiet
Stays seated
And
Stays small
STAYING SMALL WAS NEVER PART OF THE PLAN
‘God can do anything, you know-far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!’ Ephesians 3:20 (The Message Bible)
The good news is
God isn’t a crabby old crab
He doesn’t want you to
Stay quiet
Or
Stay seated
Or
Stay small
He has a great adventure for you, my friend
A great BIG adventure
That’s
Not in the bucket!
It’s
BIGGER
Than you ever imagined!
Even in your wildest dreams!
Pushing past ‘the rules’ that the other crabs make (whatever they are)
Will take
Courage
Passion
Grit
And
Purpose
So start climbing out of that bucket , my friend!
Start sticking it to the man!
(Or crab)
I believe you can do it!
But most of all
The God, who created the whole universe
Doesn’t want you to live a life
Of
Staying quiet
Staying seated
And
Staying small
He wants you to
RISE
Because
Staying small was never part of the plan
=)
Wendy xo
Leonie Schlosser
March 25, 2017Another awesome one, Love this, because you just have to let you Bouncey ( thing singer) out most likely spelt that wrong. Also true when there is injustices, and it appears we have no clout, stand up anyway. Because Jesus certainly did.