Growing up, my mind was always easily shaped by whatever was around me. I, like most kids, was very impressionable. So watching shows that I thought were real, like He-man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles always gave me a sense that these people existed, just not anywhere close to where I was. Then there came dramas like Saved by the Bell and later the OC. The shows would always been the same length, and pretty much any problem would resolve by the end of the episode. Things were back to normal, and the characters would all be friends again, awaiting the next “hilarious” mis-hap that would fit perfectly into an hour long episode (with commercial breaks of course).
What I don’t think I consciously was paying attention to while watching these dramas was also the fact that everything always resolved. If I thought of it like that, it would make the shows not even worth watching right? We pretty much know that all the main characters are going to live through the episode and whatever thing they do will most likely have little impact on the subsequent shows. Unfortunately, I think at a certain point, I started to view my life in this way too. Not that I was trying to become a Zach Morris or anything, but it was weird how when watching the shows, people would almost identify or pull for certain characters to complete whatever goal or happy ending for their life they had. A.C Slater goes off with the big wrestling scholarship, Zach marries Kelley after a terrible stint in the “College Years”, Seth eventually marries Summer at the end of a painful 4th season.
There was a certain point in my life, where I came to realization that I may not be destined for this greatness that I had always thought. Not that I had any specific dreams to set out to be in movies or anything like that, but I always had this feeling like I was destined for great things. I had been interviewing for jobs, and it was some where in between interviewing for a position as a branch manager for a “cash advance” company (which would literally be one of the worst jobs around) and telling a story during an interview about how I had accidentally smeared cupcake in my roommates hair and the next thing I knew I had it in my ear, that I realized I was just spinning my wheels. It took me some time to come away from all of this; from thinking that I was going to some how change the world and impact everyone’s life around me, to feeling like I wasn’t even good enough to manage handing out money to people who can’t manage money.
Why would God make me go through these terrible interviews, where I was trying hard and just getting denied time after time? Why was I pushing so hard for these things and not being backed up by the Creator of the world? It wasn’t until I recently did some reading that any of this made sense to me. Ephesians 2:10 says “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Breaking this down, really helped me to put things into perspective. God’s workmanship in Greek translates to the word Poema which is “a spoken work of art”. Any poet or artist knows that the things they create are some of the most special and unique results of their gifts. In the same way, we are God’s poetry, literally…we are his works of art, spoken into existence and uniquely created for a specific purpose in his overall plan. Even though it sucked not getting the first couple jobs I applied for, I learned that God had something to teach me during that time, to prepare me for plans he had for me later down the road. While those times were frustrating for me, they were all part of his purpose in putting me where I am today. As for my destined greatness, I have had to put things into a different perspective. While I was looking for something that the world would define as great, and the world would reward me with wealth, my true destiny lies elsewhere. I couldn’t be happier that I am destined to do great things by following God’s will for my life and taking part in his greater plan for the world.
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