Light has no plan.

Imagine if light needed to have a plan in order to shine. Light is supposed to just shine. I think I’ve been considering the topic of what I want to do with my life more since I’ll be graduating in spring. I realize I have held many paradigms that have limited myself. What does it mean to burn for Jesus? I think growing up in church culture, I have accepted that to be spiritual is to do ministry. Even though doing marketplace ministry is encouraged, but it’s second rate to full-time ministry. To drop everything, and follow Jesus (in full-time ministry) is what it means to be a burning one. Such crap.

I feel like there hasn’t been many good examples of what it means to step into shining as who we are created be. Even when people go do things outside of the church in so-called marketplace ministry, there’s some kind of “plan.” Like, a Christian musician might go with the idea of writing songs that have subliminal messages of Jesus or a businessman may put bible verses on the bottom of their products or something. That’s cool and all, but if Jesus really lives inside me, I don’t need to “plan” a way to shine. Like a musician should be able to write simply excellent music in the most secular sense, without strings of Christianity, and it would naturally reflect Jesus and the glory of God. We are created so beautifully to be ourselves. There has to be this understanding of our calling and who we carry inside us so that we can run full-heartedly.

I am still coming to terms of what it means to be spiritual. I am a spiritual being and so everything I do is spiritual. When I am doing my engineering homework, I am burning for Jesus just as much as when I heal the sick. When I rest, I am just as close to the Father as when I am reading my Bible. Full-time ministry is necessary, and pursuing things outside of it is not second-rate. There is a new breed of lovers that will dare to find a place for their light outside the church.

What does it mean to bring heaven to earth? A Christian doctor’s ability to heal with medicine is not second-rate to supernatural healing. He should be allowed to walk in the fullest extent of both. The vaccine for polio eradicated a widespread crippling disease in a generation. Yes, one could pray for healing, but you can’t pray for everyone. Some people won’t even let you pray for them. I haven’t completely thought this through, but I believe that this is a way of bringing heaven to earth. This is only one example that I can think of, there are seven mountains of influence to be tackled. Each person is so uniquely designed by God; it’s like each person is made to carry a payload of heaven and we have an order to deliver it somewhere. We need to run our own race, to reach our own target. Who are we to categorize and rank each person’s magnificence? I dare to dream without having to answer to Sunday school questions of how I am glorifying Jesus.

All I know to do is be myself and be the fullest extent of myself because I trust who Jesus designed me to be. “I shall know just as I also am known.”

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