THAT ONE THING
There is something I find incredibly sad in life and it’s something that I was also guilty of in my life until recently and I wanted to share it with you in the hopes to encourage.
Do you ever just long to get that one elusive thing?
Hit that one goal?
Get married?
Have kids?
Start a business?
Finish a project?
And then it will be ok?
Like then you will feel validated and confident knowing you are worthy of what you long for deep in your soul?
This came to light for me recently as I was watching a very popular show with my family. It was actually the best of the best coming back to compete on this show.
There was this one man.
I watched one of these shows with great sadness building up in my heart for one of these contestants. I won’t say who he is, but he became very famous (according to the world’s requirements) and performed for Queens and all over the world on the largest stages.
But he was in tormenting type of tears and angst as he told the cameras that he felt empty that he had never actually won this title. It was the thing that he kept going for and needed it in order to validate that he is actually worth it.
It wasn’t just for show either. You could see a deep aching sadness in his eyes that could barely get out the words.
It made me realize that in all of these amazing adventures, he most likely missed all these gifts he had been given because he was so focused on this one thing that he had built up in his mind to equal worth as a human being.
THE LONGING
This broke my heart for so many reasons.
I was dumbfounded at how similar that is to so many of us and the way we may think in life.
I get it. I have totally 100% been there.
Maybe it’s something inside that tells us we will never be worth it.
Maybe it’s the longing knowing that there is something more.
Maybe it’s thinking the grass is greener in someone else’s life.
Maybe it’s because we long to be that one special one that can be recognized as true greatness and our need to feel truly, wholly, through and through, with no holds barred loved and accepted in a way that we just hunger for deep in our souls.
The world can be such a judgmental, condescending, elitist, check the box place to live.
But, if we can take a look at that unseen heavenly realm for a minute, where legions of angels are rejoicing and God is actually singing and dancing over us with His love because He is so excited just at the very thought of us, we just may realize it is possible to live there in that beautiful life-changing mindset while we are here in this world as well.
I realized that until he (or any of us) have the deep understanding of how we are chosen (and maybe he already does so I am not judging), no reward will ever be enough for him or us.
He may well win that show, but it most likely won’t satisfy him, or if it did, then what? If you have reached the epitome of what your goals are, why not just give up? You have to have goals and I get that, but there has to be something more.
He somehow thought this show was the measure of the man and talent he was and that was the end of his limits. Do we believe that too? That whatever the world says about us, or others believe to be true about us, or our gifts, abilities, money, job status is the measure of WHO WE ARE?!! Nothing could be further from the truth my friend!!
Sometimes, we give the approval we are seeking over to other people, most of whom we do not even know and never will with no real basis for why they approve of you.
Do we, like this gentleman, want the golden buzzer (or that one thing) so badly we angst about it and are driven towards it for years. Do we want the win so much it defines our existence?
I just wanted to reach through the screen and hug him in that dear brother kind of way and tell him He is FULLY loved and special and accepted in a way that would make the golden buzzer seem like dog poo if he only knew.
I wish we all knew that.
THE REAL GOLDEN BUZZER!
GOD HAS HIT THE GOLDEN BUZZER ON YOU!
He chose you out of all the people in the world.
Deuteronomy 14:2 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”
He created you.
He created every single cell in your body…He made everything about you.
Psalm 139:13 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”
YOU ARE THE ONE HE LOVES.
Isaiah 43:4a “Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you,”
YOU ARE THE ONE HE CHOOSES.
Isaiah 43:1b “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.”
YOU ARE THE ONE HE REJOICES OVER AND THINKS ABOUT.
Zephaniah 3;17 “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
YOU ARE THE WINNER!
GOD SMASHED THAT GOLDEN BUZZER SO HARD ON YOU AND ALL THE LEGIONS OF ANGELS IN HEAVEN CHEERED IN A STANDING OVATION!
There is nothing you have to wait for.
There is no medal you can win that will feel good enough.
There is no amount of money you can make that will buy you enough to stop wanting more.
There is no car or house you can purchase that won’t eventually wear down.
There is nothing in this earthly world that can give you that deep soul satisfaction you are yearning for with a deep groaning of your soul.
Psalm 107:9, “For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.”
It lies not here in this world, but in another place so often unbelieved as if it is a fairy tale world untouchable to us humans and not real anymore.
It seems as if it is a place that was reserved for the people of old that were somehow more special and is uninhabitable to us present mortals.
This is not how it works beloved.
There is so much for YOU!
That world, that is VERY REAL, NOT A FAIRY TALE, IS WAITING FOR YOU! It is here right now, all around you in the unseen invisible realm!
2 Corinthians 4:18, “As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
That ONE THING YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING ON IS HERE!
GOD IS SMASHING THE GOLDEN BUZZER FOR YOU RIGHT NOW AND CHEERING WITH AN AUDIENCE OF COUNTLESS SOULS IN THE AUDIENCE IN A STANDING OVATION.
There is nothing you can DO.
There is nothing you can ACCOMPLISH.
There is nothing you can BUY.
There is nothing you can WIN.
There is nothing that you could possibly do that could EARN that GOLDEN BUZZER from God!
Ephesians 2:9 “Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
He is the ULTIMATE JUDGE that makes famous celebrity judges look like dirt off the shoes of a peasant.
Isaiah 43:10b-11″Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.”
His GOLDEN BUZZER is THE ONLY ONE THAT MATTERS!
He is SMASHING IT ON YOU!!!!!
He will not change his mind. There are no semifinals to compete in.
He chooses YOU right now at this moment and you are forever His!!
He says you are the ONE I want.
You are special enough.
You are loved.
You are set free to live fully right now! (read more about that here).
This is the moment you have been waiting for.
What will you do with it?
Pass it on to someone else that needs to know they already have the Golden Buzzer from the most feared, awed, and respected judge ever!
IMAGINE THIS
An unseen audience of countless is on their feet screaming with shrills of jubilation just because you walked onto the stage!!
There you are!
We have been waiting for you!
The ONLY judge at the respected, feared, and revered table stands up, and an immediate hush falls over the normally bustling and loud massive room. Everyone holds their breath as He gracefully and with a gentle glowing and joyous look on His face reaches over and smashes the biggest GOLDEN BUZZER ever FOR YOU!!
And all the angels in heaven rejoice with a measure never seen before.
IT IS FULL ON UNADULTERATED ACCEPTANCE FOR EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE RIGHT NOW AND LOVED IN THE MOST INTIMATE AND SOUL THRILLING WAY POSSIBLE!