God has always been and will always be a bigger thinker than any of us, and the beauty of this is that through Jesus we now have the power to let those plans of God come to pass in our lives - if we put our trust in the power of Christ and His grace to sustain us.
After spending some days with Jesus after His resurrection, the disciples ask Him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6) Jesus' answer was most likely not one that the disciples had expected to hear. While the followers were thinking of the restoration of the nation, Jesus was thinking bigger and answers that the disciples would now be a witness to "Jerusalem, Judea and to the ends of the earth."
What plans do you have for your life? Did you know that in the hands of Jesus and under His lordship and authority, He can take those plans and make them bigger than you ever thought? If you thought your life would only bless you and your family, God has plans to make you a blessing to a bigger circle.
It can often feel intimidating to give our lives to the plans of God given He has always been known to maximise our life and calling in ways that are way bigger than ourselves. He called people like the stutterer Moses, the coward Gideon, the young boy David and the ambitious Joseph to create impact that they never imagined.
In Isaiah 49:6, God says to Israel, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth." And in doing so, God made Israel a blessing to the whole world through one Jew who died for the sins of all mankind - Jesus Christ.
God has a bigger plan for your life and He intends to let His plans come to pass. That's why He sent Jesus as an atonement sacrifice for our sins, not so that we will simply be free from sin but so that we would be free from barriers to fulfilling His great purposes for our lives. 1 Corinthians tells us, "But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"
God is a big thinker and in the middle of all those big plans is you and He calls you to participate in the great work of working for Him but at the same time promising that He will be with us until the very end of the age (Matthew 28:20).
