Giant or a Pea?

The other day I was catching up on one of my favorite TV shows, October Road. One of the characters said "When we are young we live like Giants... as we grow older we live smaller and smaller until one day we live as though we are as small as a pea." WOW... that is deep. That hit me like a ton of bricks! It's so true... think about it.

When we are young we LIVE, we really LIVE. We do what we feel, say what we feel, think what we want. We DREAM BIG dreams. We look at the world with fresh eyes, cynicism is not in our vocabularies. We LIVE like GIANTS!

But as we grow older we begin to change. We become a reflection of the let downs we have experienced. We don't accept things at face value, we begin to limit ourselves, our responses, our actions, our thoughts, our DREAMS, until one day we find ourselves very small... like a pea.

Ask a child you know what they want to do with their life, what they want to be, or make happen. I bet the answer will be so BIG, so GIANT like that you will almost want to tell them to adjust their dream just a little to make it more possible to achieve. That's the pea you at work!

We don't HAVE to be peas as adults. We REALLY can still live like a GIANT! I used to be a really small pea. Last year at this time I really had no friends, no goals, no dreams for myself. I was a shell of a person. Now, with each passing day, I become more and more the GIANT I was created to be. What's changed? I am doing life with GOD now. Last Easter, I was baptised. I have since dug in and rooted myself in an AWESOME place, Flamingo Road Church. Now, I have such good friends... quality friends, goals and dreams bigger than the ones I had as a child.

God created us to be GIANTS! Not peas!

Ephesians 2:10 NLT

"For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew, in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things He planned for us long ago."

In your life, are you living like a pea or a GIANT?