I love how intentional the Lord is, He has perfectly mapped out our lives down to the last detail, all aligning to flow together in a seamless pattern of chaos and flutters. Chaos to us is peaceful noise to Him because He knows what was, what is and what lies ahead for us. The little flutters of moments that don’t always seem to have much impact but together influence our day to day lives in the smallest ways creating blasts of memories to look back on one day. Wild, right? Each second that passes by, even as I type this has been planned, blessed and done with purpose. It’s wild that He did that with all what, 3 billion of us? He took the time to plan our lives down to the last moment we are here on this earth. When He was done he didn’t say, “Wow, I wrapped up my daughter’s/son’s life with a bow because it won’t be painful and it won’t be difficult.” Instead He says He has wrapped it with Hope that one day we will all have the privilege of figuring out our great and powerful why.
We all have different gifts, different paths and different desires but together we all make up the beautiful body, the Kingdom of the great, I Am. Sometimes I just need to sit and soak in it, the gifts the Lord has blessed me with and just say, “Wow, thanks God.” We all have different pains, different guilts and different perceptions; someone else’s conviction is not your commandment, the Lord made us different with purpose.
When I was driving down to Georgia I started thinking about how in love with God I was, how desperate I was to hear His voice and in that moment, almost out of instinct I went to grab my phone, I picked it up, unlocked it and went to the dial pad, all in a matter of seconds. It hit me in that moment I was picking up my phone with the human like desire to call a friend I have missed, I instinctively grabbed my phone to call God to just chit chat totally unaware of the fact that He psychically can’t actually answer my call; laughing I set my phone down when I heard the faint whisper of a presence. “Pick it back up and give me a call MacKenzie.” Before I knew it, there I was talking into a phone that wasn’t connected to another, but instead connected to God and Heaven itself. There I was having a conversation with the Lord that I heard so clearly and so audibly in a way that was so “me” like that it didn’t seem odd.
The Lord will not talk to you the way He talks to someone else, because if He did, you would miss it. He made you so uniquely and so deliberately that He wouldn’t even think to speak to you the same way He speaks to another because He knows what you will respond to, He knows where you are still and observant. If I whispered to a hearing man and then to a deaf man who would hear me? I’m communicating in the same way to both, but only the hearing man would hear me, but if I signed to the deaf man he too would “hear” me. I’m still communicating the same things but differently, neither wrong, just different; that’s the body.
I’m learning that I don’t want the same walk as others, I don’t want the same voice or gifts as my brothers and sisters in Christ, I want to cheer them on in their triumphs and cry with them during their trials. If we were all the same the unreached would be far, far greater, don’t you see it? He made you with purpose, every ounce, every quirk, every gift and if we keep striving to be like another human being instead of God, it will fly right past us and we will miss it. While you are busy trying to be more like another flesh you will miss the Kingdom He has right before you that only you can see through your own eyes.
You’re not bad or wrong, you’re different. Different with purpose.
I encourage you all to embrace your different relationship and walk with the Lord, how disappointing would it be for Him if we were all the same or strived to be the same when He never intended it to be that way.
You are purposely placed. Wow, thanks God. How incredibly rad of Him.
