2 Timothy 1:7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
I was reading this passage this morning and it struck a chord. The spirit God gave us does not make us timid……but all too often we are aren’t we? We meet the day with a timid heart. Think I am off base on this? Let me ask you a question. What is special about today? Come on, think hard about it. Nothing right? Nothing special about this day. Just another common day. Another x on the calendar, another day closer to whatever it is we are looking forward to. What are we doing today? Anything special? No, not really right? It is Friday, so we will try and survive the day, keep our heads down, and try to stay off the radar. Just another common day, in a common person’s life. If that is not being timid, then I do not know what is!
Today is no common day. It is a day totally removed from yesterday, and a lifetime until tomorrow. It is the right now, the present, the here and now. There is nothing common about that. It is the chance and the time to do something spectacular. Oh wait, I am sorry, I forgot, we are just common people. Our days are not like that. That is the lie, that is the trap, that is the black hole of “just getting by”. There is nothing common about this day, and there is nothing common about you. Why? Because God has made both. The God of the universe does not make anything that is just common. HE does not make “OK” or “so-so” He creates what to us is impossible, and unimaginable. Think about that. Could you imagine a universe if it were not already made? Something as simple as single cell reproduction, could we come up with that on our own? We do a great job tearing things down and explaining them, or taking an idea and expanding on it, but to dream up from scratch the ability for plants to take sunlight and carbon dioxide, and produce life sustaining oxygen, we are good, but we are not that good! So why is it that we are all so ready to believe that Our God that has put so much effort in making even the smallest thing amazing, would for some reason make us less than unbelievable? AS if somehow He came up short when He created humans. Did I mention that we are created in His image? Yet we would believe that somehow, someway, we are less, not more. We believe that we can’t…. only others can. We believe that today is just another day for us, yet many will accept Christ for the first time today! Folks, there is no ordinary, common day, and there are no ordinary, common people.
Let’s say that you own two cars. One is a practical, common sedan, the other is a Porsche 911 turbo. Why would you drive the sedan, and keep the Porsche parked? Could you imagine? Everyone knows you have the Porsche, they always ask, “why are you not driving the Porsche today?” Your answer would be well it is too flashy, it is too nice to drive, or my favorite, I do not want anything to happen to it! It is a Porsche! It was built to be driven! Actually, it was built to be driven faster, harder, and longer than that junky sedan that you plug around in every day. Why not take it out? Why not drive it every day? Why? Well like so many of us, it seems that driving that common car on a common day makes way more sense. The Porsche is just for “special” days. Why do we do that? How does driving that Porsche make you feel? Powerful right? Special? Without a doubt! I bet every one of us would feel unstoppable every day that we drove it.
God has given each of us a Porsche. That Porsche was meant to be taken out, enjoyed, and shared. That Porsche is the Spirit that was given to us. Just like a Porsche, that spirit is not timid, and it is not common. Yet all too often we leave it parked. We listen to the lies of the devil who would have us believe that that junky old beat up sedan that we have had our whole lives is a safer spirit to drive, than that turbo charged spirit God has given us when we turned to His Son! Do not fall for it, do not step into that trap. Take the Porsche out every day. Will it get dinged up? Yep! Shopping carts of life will bang into it. It will get keyed by people you do not know, and someone will hit it when you are not expecting it…..but guess what? You have the best insurance in the world! That Porsche is insured by God. There is no deductible, and the premium has already been paid. Your rates do not go up when you file a claim, and you will find that the more you depend on that insurance, the better is gets.
Take the Porsche out today, and every day. God has given it to you so that you might use that power. There is nothing to be timid about, you have more horsepower at your fingertips than you will ever need. No common people drive Porsches, and no day is common when you leave the sedan in the garage.
God Bless,
Brian Thetford
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