Living small

"The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way." (II Corinthians 6:12 - The Message)

Wonder how many of us would admit that we choose to live small lives? We fence ourselves in. We convince ourselves that there are things that we just can't change about ourselves. We listen to the doubts whispered in the shadows of our lives. We accept the small because the thought of living wide open is scary. We like the confines of the known instead of the vastness of the unknown. We would rather live doing small things on our own than allow God to do something incredibly large through us. We choose the close, the comfortable, the manageable, the known, and the small.

But our lives aren't small, we just choose to live them that way. What is that thing you dream of doing, but are afraid to try? What is it that quickens your pulse and pumps adrenaline through you like nothing else, but you convince yourself you can't do? What boundaries have you set up for yourself to protect the current status, to keep you from change, that you are convinced can't be changed because of who you are? Does that smallness come from within you? Is it your doubts, your fears, your limitations?

God sees what might be in us. We try to tell him why we can't. We want the small, he see the potential for huge things. Wonder who is right? Are you choosing to live a small life? It is our choice how we live... will it be big or small?