Do You Feel Too Ordinary for God to Use?
Do you ever look around and see the amazing people in the world and feel like you are just too ordinary to do amazing things like them? Do you want to live an extraordinary life but feel like you don’t have what it takes?
Well, if that sounds like you then I have great news for you!
Redemption Unveiled is here to help you take the Adventure God has for you, but there is one thing you must understand if you are going to do this.
You must start seeing yourself as able and start believing that you can do the amazing things that God has called you to do.
Most of us struggle to see ourselves as anything too wonderful. We are very aware of our weaknesses and limitations and can live blind to our natural strengths. We can live haunted by our failures and consumed with our shortcomings. This seems to be a pretty common human condition. We can see other people's great attributes and even their potential, but we struggle to recognize our own.
Do you want to hear a pretty cool discovery that I made?
There was a literary professor and author, Joseph Campbell, who taught people how to write great adventure stories. He taught there are 6 things that every great adventure story needs. The first thing an Adventure needs is a hero. If you are going to write a great adventure story, then you must have a hero… but that’s not all!
This hero doesn’t start out as a hero, they start out as an ordinary person and become extraordinary along the journey.
This is good news for me and good news for you because most of us don’t view ourselves as anything too extraordinary. We are just doing our best to live our life and be a good person. This doesn’t usually look too remarkable, BUT here is the connection I have found:
Saying yes to the Adventure God has for you is the exact thing you need to become the extraordinary person you were created to be.
Too many of us are living small and staying small, not because we were born to be small, but because we haven’t chosen to say “yes” to the things God has asked us to do.
God often asks us to do things that feel scary, that we can’t do on our own and He knows this. He knows we are not qualified to do the things He asks us to do and that’s the whole point. We must rely on him to do them. We must trust him even when feels super scary. We must choose to obey him even when we don’t understand.
My job is to help you take the Adventure God has for you. In doing this, I must equip you for what it takes. Step one, you must stop thinking you must be a “qualified superhero” before you begin. That’s not correct thinking. You don’t need to be qualified, you don’t need to be extraordinary, you don’t need even need to be prepared. All you need to be is willing. You need to be willing to take action toward what God has asked you to do, be willing to persevere through the problems, and be willing to let him heal you from your discouragements along the way. That’s it.
Your adventure will not come from how amazing you are. Your Adventure is born from how amazing your God is. He loves you enough to invite you on this Adventure, it is not determined by how perfect you are, but by how obedient you are.
This adventure will have many ups and downs, but along the way, you will discover not only how amazing your God is, but you will also become the amazing person God created you to be.
And don’t forget, the Earth is waiting for you to show up.- Haley
Listen to the podcast for more below…