My daughters love cheap, square, frozen pizzas. Tonight as one was being eaten, my daughter made the statement of how good these pizzas taste. I can't say I agree with her. In fact, in my list of favorite pizza, this kind is very near the bottom of the list. I didn't really respond, but thought about how, to my daughter, these are delicious. I thought about how her experience with pizza does not equal mine. There are pizza adventures I've had that she can't even fathom. Then I started thinking about how this type of thing frequently happens to us in various parts of our lives.
We often label something as "good" only because it is our only experience. Because we have never known anything different or better, we think of what we know as being the best. The sad part of this is how so many people settle for a life that is at the "bottom of the list" to those who know of better. We are content in our mediocrity simply because it is the life we have known. Even worse, we define something as "good" that was never intended by God to be something "good."
What if what we spend so much energy fighting to keep is what God has deemed as the bottom of the list? I've personally been in relationships I thought were good, only because they were better than the last relationship or were on par, or better than the relationships of others I knew. But God had SO much more for me! It wasn't until I sought God's wisdom regarding relationships that I started to see HIS best. When I was waiting for my husband, I knew I just didn't want "good." I wanted what God would describe as the best....for ME!
Others come into our lives who will challenge us to move from what we see as good and attempt to show us better. How we respond to their advice and example is up to us. I am thankful for all those who have been bold enough to challenge me to try something new which led me to find better than what I previously saw as "good." The truth is, according to God's word, He wants to do so much more than we can imagine! He wants us to live a life beyond what we currently define as "good." The question is, how will we respond when He shows us there is more? What will we do when faced with a decision to stay in the current "good" when God is trying to move us into something better? Will we listen and respond accordingly?
I pray for you to never settle for a life of square, frozen pizza living.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
