"SEIZE THE DAY: MUD PIES OR
MIRACLES?"
By John Paul Jackson
Mud Pie Mediocrity
We live in an exciting and profound season, for God is
calling us into our destiny. He is calling us to boldly bear His name by
walking out His character in the daily routine and the often mundane reality of
our lives.
C.S. Lewis wrote, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and
sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who
wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is
meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.”
In your life, are you settling for making mud pies instead of embracing the
glorious adventures God has for you? In the face of such an invitation from
God, many of us may still say things like: “But I’m so weak.” We may even whine
a little, and devise any number of other excuses to avoid submitting to God,
and thus, fully carry the blessing and authority of God’s names. Unfortunately,
many of us settle for mediocrity.
A People Marked by His
Name
God longs to place His names on us—every one of them, on every one of us! God
delights in seeing us carry His name in a way that helps to make Him known for
who He really is. How do we rightly carry His name? By
holding it in the highest regard in our hearts, by hallowing it. We must
esteem, admire, honor, respect, praise, and cherish the unspeakable treasure of
His glory. This is how we are to carry God’s name; this is how we hallow it in
our hearts.
God wants to reveal His greatness through us. Scripture says, “For the Lord
will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake: because it has pleased
the Lord to make you His people” (1 Samuel 12:22). God does not want to
withhold from us the privilege of serving Him. God is pleased to make us His people,
and this means being a people that are marked by His name.
Despite our inferiorities, God says to all of us: “You are the perfect
candidate, because in your weakness I will be shown strong.”
God is NOT Afraid of Our
Weaknesses
Over the years, I have noticed something peculiar in
Scripture; anytime God wants to do something truly remarkable, He looks for the
weakest person He can find to do it. A perfect example of this principle is
Gideon. When God called him to lead the Israelites to victory, Gideon received
a powerful angelic visitation (Judges 6). Nevertheless, Gideon was unmoved by
God’s faith in him, and he answered: “God, do you have any clue who I am? Don’t You know I’m from
the tribe of Manasseh—the weakest tribe in all of
But God is not afraid of our weaknesses. He is eager for us to agree with Him
and let go of our spiritual excuses. He is waiting for us to seize the day and
boldly respond to His invitation by saying, “Here I am, Lord! Send me!”
Will you take that leap of faith?