Ordinary or Significant. Which?

 

 

Christian Living & Growth

Ordinary or Significant?

Vanilla or Rainbow?

 

God is not satisfied that you’ve taken one step; no more than you are satisfied that you take your first step. All you did was get started. The first step is excellent, but don’t stop with excitement over the first step. All that’s occurred is the introduction to spiritual life. Parents encourage their son or daughter as to how how much potential they possess. They attempt to communicate to their child that they have so much more inside than what is visible right now. It is only the beginning. Years of growth and development must occur before that child grows into an adult.

 

In the same way, God has given every believer the promise of spiritual maturity. What is presently visible is not the end result of spiritual growth.

 

Thomas Anderson was just another computer programmer and occasional computer hacker. He was an ordinary man. But one day, he was exposed to another realm. While working on his computer, he discovered a reality beyond what he was accustomed to. It was called the Matrix. He was transported into this other realm, where he met another man named Morpheus.

 He discovered things were not as they appeared.

 

He discovered that in this realm, the computers were in power. He had settled for an ordinary life to sit down all day tapping keys on a computer until he discovered something remarkable. He was then invited to participate in something much bigger than he was aware of. When he decided that he would participate, it became clear that he was the one—the chosen one whose job it was to save humanity from the takeover of the computers in the  4 dimensional realm of the Matrix.

All of a sudden, his ordinary life became an extraordinary life. He received a new name; he would be called Neo. In the new realm, He could do things he couldn’t do previously. In the new realm, he possessed abilities he didn’t have before. In the new realm, he had a new love. His relationship with Trinity became his dominating relationship as they partnered to keep the computers from overthrowing humanity. He discovered that life had something much more significant to offer him than his previous existence of sitting at a computer, tapping away.

 

When Jesus Christ saved you, He invited you to partner in a new realm with the Trinity—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—to keep evil agents from dominating and taking over humanity. You have been called to something bigger. If you don’t experience that new realm and are satisfied being a Thomas when you were made to be a Neo, you will not experience all that you were designed to experience.

 

Now Neo has to choose where he wants to live. He had to choose between two pills. One pill would take him into the new realm. The other pill would send him back to his ordinary life. He took the pill that would make his life no longer the same, ordinary existence. After choosing the pill of the new realm, he no longer got up every day to the same old life; he now got up and entered the Matrix.

 

The question is, which pill will you choose? Will you be satisfied with ordinary living or will you choose an existence that takes you into a new realm?