I’ve been doing some thinking. Cause that’s what you do when you quit your job, turn from life as you know it, move to another state, get a new job & begin to try & figure out how to build a new life. (In all honestly, God told me to quit my job, made me leave life as I know it, gave me a new job 3 days after I quit the other one & the new place found me. I actually feel as if I had very little to do with the last 3 months. But that’s another post for another day.)

So in all my deep pondering, God has been ripping down a lot of what I made and rebuilding. Also another post for another day. But in the rebuilding, He’s reintroducing me to Jesus – to His character, to His nature and to the simple ways He lived His life on earth.

I read a tweet that in a nutshell said “I want masses of believers to live extraordinary lives.” My first thought was that I don’t want my life to produce that. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the statement. But if our (my) motive is for extraordinary, then I think we (I’ve) got it wrong…& I don’t really want any part of that. I doubt Paul was sitting in his jail cell – a prisoner in chains – thinking, “I’m living an extraordinary life and my name is going to end up in the #1 selling book and millions of people are going to be talking about me in thousands of years. Man, I’ve really made my mark.” No, he was just following Jesus. His eyes were set and his mind was fixed on the person of Jesus, not the size of his mark.

And Jesus said, “come, follow me and I will make you fisher’s of men.” *Note to self – He said fisher of men, not “make fatter fish”.

He said, “I am the vine and you are the branches. If you remain in me, you will bear much fruit.” *Note to self – He said I will bear fruit, not just the thing I’m a part of will bear much fruit.

He said, “Go and make disciples.” *Note to self – He didn’t say, “go and change the world.”

So, while God has ripped a bunch of stuff down and out of my heart, I’m relearning Jesus. And Jesus…He loved his friends. He made them breakfast. He told them the truth. He helped the people He came across who needed help. He didn’t have a marketing campaign or sales agenda. His campaign was unconditional love and His agenda, infallible truth. He was straightforward and uncomplicated. He made time for people…all that while humbly knowing He was the one who actually would change the world.

So yeah, let’s be extraordinary. Let’s change the world. But you don’t get extraordinary without ordinary first. And you don’t change the world without breakfast.

So, let’s have breakfast…in Tennessee.

He is the Anchor.