Day 16 -Embrace the place.

What an amazing weekend I have had. This is going to be hard today to pick one thing to chew on and share but I will try. [smile]

This weekend my church brought in one of THE most amazing speakers I have ever heard. Christine Caine came all the way from Hillsong church in Australia.

To say that the word she brought to our church was amazing would be an understatement. And today, I just can’t stop thinking about what she said.

So I’m going to take a little break from my 30-day personal journey [just for today] and share with you the truth that she spoke into my life.

Our church has been in a series called “Get Back”. And its all about bringing the momentum back into our lives. Between this series and reading the book “The Dip” by Seth Godin, I think I’m about to explode with momentum thoughts.

I’ve said this before on this blog, but I tend to quit things when I get sick of them. I quit people when I get tired of their grumbles, I quit exercise when I get sore, I quit trying because its….just to hard.

This is something that the LORD has been dealing with me on like you would not believe.

Christine brought a message that was called: “Embrace the place”.

A long time ago I heard someone say to me, “Nicki, God will always move you to be in the place where He needs to position you to do His work.”

But for some reason, we, as humans tend to fight change and movement with everything in us. Our ground gets shaky and bam…we are an absolute mess.

When God takes us away from people we thought we would do life with forever, we freak out. When God takes being comfortable away, we freak out. When God speaks TRUTH to us, we freak out.

Yet…we stand in church and sing songs with words like, “Take my life and let it be.”

I think we would love idea of God taking our lives but then when He actually does it…we freak out.

Christine said something that struck a HUGE chord with me.

“We confuse the position with the place.”

See, I’ve realized a long time ago that these “things” we do for Jesus has nothing to do with our titles. I hate titles. Please, don’t label me.

But…it is so easy to label ourselves isn’t it?!

What I realized this weekend is when we begin to label OURSELVES…we will begin to lose the momentum of God moving in our lives.

Consider it for a second…

When I say, “I’m just a mom.” I label myself as my identity being wrapped up in just the daily grind of  motherhood.

When I say, “I’m just a volunteer.” I label myself as someone doing something that may seem unworthy in someone else’s eyes.

When I say, “I’m just not going anywhere towards the dreams I have for life.” I label myself as a failure.

BUT…what if I embraced the place God has me in every day?

“I’m not just a mom, I’m raising the next generation of followers of Christ. What an opportunity!”

“I’m not just a volunteer, I’m helping to hold the string of chords in place, every part counts. What an opportunity!”

“I am a unique individual. God’s brought me out of so much and what an opportunity I have daily to keep telling the world what God did with a once broken down Jesus girl!”

If I showed up in this posture before God every day, holy cow…I don’t know that I would be able to stand all that God would begin to do! And what if as the body of Christ we ALL began to show up daily before God like this?

I’m challenged to begin starting my days with this thought:

Not my will LORD, but yours.

I’m done asking God to open doors of opportunity. Because opportunity is now, today, here in this moment. In the place I am in TODAY.

Not where God is taking me next year, or the year after that. Today, there are opportunities to embrace the place God has planted me.

So I’m doing it. I’m guarding my post, standing in my place, ready for action.

Let’s do this thing Jesus. Let’s do it. Today.