“Your God is too small.”
–J. B. Phillips

Today really didn’t start out much different than most days…while debating when to get out of bed my mind began to wonder. In particular it was wondering what I could share in reference to Dr. Martin Luther King. I struggled to get past the words “I have a dream”. By the time I found myself at this computer I still hadn’t gotten much further.

Then I opened up an email and it had those words above from J. B. Phillips. Click.

In my dreams I imagine myself doing great things. Not because I have any greater powers, but because I trust God more. I trust in a BIG God in my dreams. One with whom I can do incredible things. Yet when I wake from my dreams God becomes smaller and my tasks reconfigure themselves into little boxes. Really? It shouldn’t be like that.

“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”
–2 Corinthians 9:8, NIV

Dr. King, and God, challenge us to dream big. And actually the dreams aren’t THAT big, the dreams are of how the world should function. You and I see it from time to time, small glimpses of it. And so, in particular, I found these words convicting this morning:

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dream of a BIG world today.

In His service,
Keith