Psalm 139:13-16, John 3:16-17

Suzie Brock reflects on keeping the main thing, the main thing, in life

Suzie Brock

I have always been jealous of people who have a "thing". You know what I mean, those individuals who seem to be born with a passion for a particular subject whether it be horses, cooking, fashion, whatever. That 'thing' seems to be in their blood as if they were born for it, motivating their life and steering all their decisions in order to feed that passion.

I've always felt like I had no 'thing'. I never felt as though I excelled in anything in particular. Of course I'm able to learn and enjoy many 'things'; as the saying goes, "jack of all trades but master of none" is kinda what it feels like.

On the outside looking in at these people of passion, it seems as though they have their feet planted on the plot of green that God intended, labelled and sorted. I always wished that I could know that I know that I was born for a destiny; to have a love for something so strong that it would power me through my everydays. Then it finally dawned on me that I do have a 'thing'. God is my 'thing'. Please don't take that the wrong way or think I'm being disrespectful, but I'm simply stating that God is MY THING!

I may have been born minus any great talent or ability, with nothing my parents could boast about, but at some point along my 'just existing' life I found my 'thing', my plot of green. I found the purpose for being on this earth and that is God, His Son Jesus and His Holy Spirit...they are my THING.

The moment I heard the truth about God - of His extraordinary love and His gift to me in the form of His Son Jesus Christ, freely given to me - in that moment I found my purpose and destiny. I found why I was born. The blood of passion that was always meant to course through my veins and drive me through this life became activated within me. It's as though the chain was put back on my bicycle called life and suddenly there was connection. I was no longer spinning my wheels.

The best discovery of all was finding out that I was and have always been God's 'thing'. That from the very beginning I have been the passion in His heart; that His love for me courses through His veins and motivates Him in His 'every days'.

How many of us aimlessly wander through life feeling detached lost and unmotivated, wondering why we are here? Even if we have a so called 'passion' that feeling of being lost can still prevail. I truly believe with all my heart that that lost feeling can be remedied by simply stopping and looking up and seeing God and receiving who He is.

And it's not just me, but you also are the passion of God's heart. You are His daily reason. You and I were made for a purpose, the purpose of love; that love, God's love, has always been meant to be the driving force in our lives; the desire that guides.

God has made you to be His 'thing'....make God yours!

'Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God---you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration---what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.' Psalm 139:13-16

'For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.' John 3:16-17