God takes average and makes it fabulous!
I live in a town where the norm is above average. Everyone likes to talk about how their kids are gifted and everyone is into sports. Many of the parents here truly believe their son or daughter is going to get a college scholarship for baseball, soccer, football, name the sport. We are in a super competitive environment. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a great place to raise kids. It’s safe; the people are friendly and the vast majority attend church. However, if you have children who don’t like to compete or if you as parents, don’t like to compete, then you could find yourself labeled, the dreaded “Average.”
No one wants to be average. Everyone wants to be above average. Right? Average is uninteresting and downright boring. As we begin another school year, I was contemplating the concept of average. I looked it up in a dictionary and found: ordinary, usual, typical. That’s not that bad, except when you are a teenager and you want so badly to get noticed or when you are a middle schooler and you want so desperately to get put in art class, but you get put in P.E. with all of the super jocks again. Maybe you begin to think that God just loves athletes and beautiful people more than everyone else.
Unless, you pick up a Bible, when I read the Bible, I find that God loves average. If David had been a, 7 feet tall warrior, it wouldn’t have been a miracle that he took Goliath down (with a simple slingshot). If Moses wasn’t a stutterer, it wouldn’t have been quite as miraculous that he was the one God sent to tell Pharaoh to let his people go. If Mary would have been a pampered princess, the prophecy of Jesus’ birth would have never been fulfilled. The Bible is full of these examples, average, ordinary people called to glorify God in some way.
God loves average, ordinary people because they give Him the greatest opportunity to shine. They also tend to be more humble than the mighty. When God calls us to do something, it doesn’t matter who we are or what we think we are capable of. After all, the Angel Gabriel told Mary, “For nothing is impossible with God.” I think we should believe that truth and start living it.
Average is simply a title we give each other. God can take average and make it fabulous! Let’s encourage each other and especially our kids to remember that we are all special and unique to our Creator. Thankfully, He has the final word. What do you think about average?
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂