"Just"

This blog is called “Transparent, Honest, and True” so I am going to let you all in on a little secret…I really love celebrity news and gossip. You know shows like E! News, Keeping up with the Kardashians, People and US magazine. All of it! You too? Good, then keep reading, you might be able to relate.

I think we often look at celebrities on the red carpet and magazines and fantasize what their lives must be like. The parties the doors of influence that are open to them, the people they must know, the glamorous life they lead.  Then we look at our own lives and we go oh yeah there’s Angelina Jolie saving the world and here I am just hoping I don’t fail my test tomorrow or that I can get all my housework done before I am out of a weekend. I mean come on Angelina Jolie doesn’t even need to be part of the UN because she has the UN living in her own home with all of her kids from the 7 corners of the world. HELLO

SO often we look at these celebrities lives and become so discouraged when we look back at our own lives and we start putting limits on our lives by using the word JUST. Ever been there? I have.

Look at  Mark 2:1-3 He (Jesus) left there and returned to his hometown. His disciples came along. On the Sabbath, he gave a lecture in the meeting place. He made a real hit, impressing everyone. "We had no idea he was this good!" they said. "How did he get so wise all of a sudden, get such ability?"

But in the next breath they were cutting him down: "He's JUST a carpenter—Mary's boy. We've known him since he was a kid. We know his brothers, James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and his sisters. Who does he think he is?" They tripped over what little they knew about him and fell, sprawling. And they never got any further.

In this passage other people were minimizing the work of Jesus, but it made me stop and wonder how many of us are minimizing our own work or where God has strategically placed us in our lives by saying I am just an office manager, secretary, stay at home mom, student, you fill in the blank?

Know with confidence that if you are deliberately seeking the will of God than God has you strategically placed there, and if God has a purpose for you and has anointed you to do it, where is the enemy going to attack you the most? It’s in the very area that God has anointed you. The enemy may be evil but he is not stupid!

Take these next few people for example.

Moses, Moses was “just” a shepherd who God called to release the Israelites from the Egyptian oppression.

David was” just” a shepherd that slain a giant.

 Esther was “just” a Jewish girl who saved her people from death

All of this came to be because they chose to see the power and purpose in their situations instead of remaining in the “just” mindset.

Remember: you are not “just” a mother you are nurturing the destiny of future world shakers. You are not just a student; you have the ability to reach people that everyone else has somehow let go unnoticed. You can be the face of love, the arms of comfort, and the voice of hope, change, and freedom in Jesus to anyone in your world if you open yourself up to allow God to do something supernatural through you. Start declaring yourself as more! Start declaring yourself a son or daughter of the most high, more than a conqueror, and anointed to do His work on earth.

Selah.