Little is much when god's in it

​I had a beautiful yet in some ways heartbreaking conversation with an old friend yesterday. In the conversation, she said:

"If I could only have one wish, that wish would be to know what God's plan is for me. I would do it, whatever it is, gladly. I just don't hear him."

The beauty in that was hearing the raw emotion of a beautiful soul who truly wants to do what God is calling her to do. Because I was left with NO doubt - she would indeed do whatever it is, gladly.

The heartbreaking part, in sharing her heart for God with me, she WAS living out God's plan for her. And she didn't know it.

That's a sad reality of many of our relationships with God. Mine included.

We can get to thinking God's plans must be as big as God. As a result, we often miss the little and seemingly meaningless parts of God's plans going on in something as 'small' as our conversations.

Too many days I can get to thinking God's plan is where I live. What line of work I do. It's a mission trip to a third world country or a particular church God wants me to join. God's plan is selling everything I own and giving it to the poor.

It is so easy to get to thinking God's plan is a 40-day fast or..... dying on a cross.

There's no doubt - God can surely work his plan through some of those big as God plans. He WILL call some of us to them.

But some of God's biggest miracles, they happen in the littlest of ways. Because here I sit this morning, writing about a conversation I had with a friend I hadn't chatted with in decades. And you are reading it.

And maybe, as a result, you will come to understand you are a seed in this world, growing much bigger God plans than you know. Just because you don't see yourself as a giant Oak tree doesn't for a second mean God isn't using you to provide cover for a lot of people in this world.

There's a story in the bible. Jesus has a conversation at a well with a woman who'd been shunned by her town. Nobody wanted a thing to do with her. But after her conversation with Jesus, the woman went back and told the town what she and Jesus had been chatting about. As a result, that whole town came to know and love Jesus.

One conversation - at a well while drinking water - and not just an ordinary woman, but one who had tons of baggage in her life.

Here's the thing. That woman didn't go to the well looking for her calling or her purpose or her meaning in life. She went to get water to survive. In doing what she does every single day, God found a way to use her to change the lives of thousands.

Sometimes, I think we overlook our calling because we can't do something as big as going to Africa and building wells for people to provide them the water they need to survive. We overlook our calling because we can't believe God is calling us to do something as simple as GETTING a drink of water.

You know, sometimes, the idea that we need to know our purpose or our calling - that's a lack of faith. I don't say that critical - because it's certainly a lack of faith I have some days. But we need to know - just because we don't 'feel' God's call on our life, or just because we don't 'know' our purpose beyond any doubt, that does not for a second mean God isn't using us.

God doesn't need us to feel or know anything to pull off what he knows he is going to pull off.

Some days, our best prayer isn't, "God, help me know your plan for my life today." Some days, the best prayer is, "God, thank you for everything I know you're going to do through my life today."

We may not know our plan, but God knows His. And because of that, every little thing we do - it is much, not little.