Many of the pressures facing women are societal, but some are self-induced. I admit this from experience as I arrived to the campus of High Desert Church in the same outfit as Kati, one the the evening’s emcees. I laughed to myself as saw her standing outside of the foyer waiting for me. And because I’m a girl, I immediately felt insecure as her waist was akin to the size of a straw. And if she’s a straw, I’m a barrel. Like I said, it’s hard being ordinary standing next to Barbie.
But aside from the trite vanities, one of the bigger lies women are faced with has gnarled roots tracing back to the Feminist movement of the 60s. We willfully ingest the lie that we should be so much more. It’s not enough that you bear children, raise a family, have a job, and know how to make amazing brownies. You should, could, and would be so much more.
The core of what I teach is that our extraordinary God wants to use ordinary people to make extraordinary changes in the world. And I believe that.
But somehow we’ve equated extraordinary only in the realm of finding a cure for AIDS or ending child slavery while negating the power of extraordinary things happening around a dinner table with family or on your knees in prayer.
Rather than worrying about our unrealized potential for some sort of nebulous greatness, we ought to be concerned about being faithful and obedient in the things God has given us to do, trusting Him for the ultimate results.
Don’t get depressed in the things you feel you should be doing by the comparison game. Just because Golda Meir saved a nation in one intense phone call, doesn’t mean God wants you to do the same thing. There’s something beautiful about being ordinary.
The stigma attached to ordinary by the lies we are believing are demolished by Paul’s words to the Corinthians in his opening letter: Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.
There’s an honor in being an ordinary person in the hand of the extraordinary God.
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