Your Silly Little Plans

So really, what is the perfect life that many strive for?

It is that dream of having the perfect job or business, that a gives us a lot of money while giving us time for our families – or just lots of personal time. It is being able to have 2 or 3 nice cars and being able to send your kids to the ‘best’ schools, right out of the country, which will increase your ‘ratings’ with your friends as you climb higher up on the ladder of “respectability”.

And of course, there is the “God” dimension, where you are also a ‘worker’ in ‘church’, a respectable deacons or deaconesses – maybe even a  ‘pastor’ , and then we can go on with our nice lives, content in our safe bubbles, giving tithes and offerings, coasting along with our desires met while overcoming the little challenges that come every now and then to spice up our lives. Of course, these troubles must NOT shake our ‘equilibrium’, till we come to a good old age, having encouraged and ensured our kids are married to ‘good’ partners, preferably from our own tribe, of course.

The perfect life…

However, what is interesting to observe is how many who are able to attain the ‘perfect life’ begin to get totally dissatisfied when they have finally climbed the challenging pinnacles of the obstacles that stood between them and their dreams. They finally get the money, marriage, position, power – or whatever thing people live, fight and die for in their quest for fulfilment and worth – and then they realise that the attainment of their dreams does not change the fact that real fulfilment and worth still remains a dream. Clearly observable are the high suicide rates in many stable economies of the world, where ‘success’ is attained pretty quickly. The irony is that it is as though the inability to achieve set aspirations keep many of us alive as we hope and work – and LIVE another day – in our pursuit of the THINGS that will finally give us validation.

What is even sadder is that for the supposed Christian and God-chaser, the people of the kingdom, the ingrained understanding is that we also live and die for the rat race – BUT of course, this time, we have the Holy Spirit and God as aces up our sleeves. God is aptly invoked in a prayer as a catalyst to help us achieve OUR dreams and ambitions, because it is not about what He may want, but after we have decided on the course of action and the paths we have chosen as our chosen course to gain (often) earth-based satisfaction, then he is conjured in a prayer, an anointing session, a vituperation of angelic tongues to validate our choices…

And yet, The Master clearly said “After all these THINGS do the Gentiles seek, but seek ye FIRST The Kingdom of God – and all these THINGS will be added to you…”

Have you ever considered the fact that your best plans and your highest goals, your great dreams and ‘life-changing’ causes which you pray for, fight for and often scheme for are totally puny, but remain gigantic to you, just like a teaspoon of sugar may look ‘massive’ to the ant, when The Designer has a sugar refinery in mind for you to handle – as part of HIS plan, and not yours? And yet, in HIS plan, you handle something much bigger, something much grander, something more eternal, something more in line with his Kingdom, something of a “GINORMOUS” scale, only if you would honestly let go and stop scheming, deceiving yourself about the fact that you are submitted to his will when you have never stopped to take stock of your life, burnt your bridges behind – which is a CLEAR, defining and scary moment – and then made him Lord, indeed, of all, thus, finally allowing his Kingdom have ONE more heart where it has totally conquered.

Maybe the biggest challenge is not even understanding what His Kingdom is about, and maybe we think in our services and prayers and worship sessions and dancing and tonguing, we operate in his Kingdom, when in reality, it goes beyond these INDIVIDUAL actions.  For in reality, The Kingdom of the King is any heart, home, life, nation or territory where his will ALONE is done by a subject or SUBJECTS who are in total submission.

May your Kingdom come, Lord, in our hearts till it totally overruns our earth in totality…

Maranatha!