By Daxx Bondoc
You are called to greatness.
Yes.
You!
But can you believe it? Can you imagine yourself being great?
Most of us cannot imagine ourselves being great men and women. To be people who makes difference in the world. But we can if we believe and we expand our imagination.
God wants us to be great but we hinder Him with our self-pity and self-doubt. What we forget is that our greatness will come from His grace and not from our own effort. What God needs is our cooperation. He needs us to expand our imagination so He can do the miraculous in us.
Most of the great people in history had big and wild imaginations. Most of the great inventors were thought to be crazy for dreaming their invention. But now they have gone down history as great men and women who made this world a better place. All because they did not let the opinion of others and failure diminish their imagination.
Three of my favorite Biblical Figures are Joseph the Dreamer, Joseph the husband of Mary and Mary herself. Joseph the dreamer believed in his prophetic dreams even though he suffered much before it happened. He was sold as a slave, falsely accused and imprisoned. He kept his imagination and believed that all his dreams will come true. And it did. He became the viceroy of Egypt.
St. Joseph needed to expand his imagination to accept that his wife, Mary, conceived a child by the power of the Holy Spirit. He really needed to have some imagination to believe such thing.
But Mary had the biggest imagination of them all. It really takes not only a big imagination but an extraordinary imagination for her to believe that she will conceive without a man. But the most far off thing she has to believe was that she, a human, will conceive the Son of God. Now that is what I call imagination!
Is your lack of imagination hindering your greatness?
Then maybe it is time to let God expand your imagination.
Imagine being great, by God's grace you will be.
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