Big fish or small fish?

Everyone has heard the expression big fish in the small pond and vice versa.

I have been thinking,  which do I prefer to be?

Of course there are pros and cons to each option. Do I want to be the one challenges or is challenged? This very moment in my career I find myself in a weird place.

I can somewhat consider myself a big fish if you want to compare degrees but if I were to say let's move to another pond,  then I would be the small fish. Is that unnerving?  Is it uncomfortable?  Is it what I want?

Yes, yes and I don't know...

I had a conversation with my sister the other day about how God had taken us to places away from safe and comfortable.   Why had He done that? In the prayer of Jabez,  we hear the words "expand my territory"  is that literally?  I think you could pray it literally but in many cases I think it applies to not just literal space.

Expanding who you reach with the Word of God is the Holy Spirit's call.  But stretching your comfort level is what you allow God to do in your life.

When Jesus confirmed my call for India,  I kicked and screamed for years.  I tried to circumvent the initial plan by manipulating the plan and how I carried it out but in the end God did what he said he would.  I find myself contemplating long term possibilities in that country.  I didn't want to stretch my comfort.  But its in the battle where you disappear and God takes over.

Being the big fish is about comfort and control, when you become the small fish, you know that you have to give in to someone bigger, stronger and wiser.  You stretch your faith and your hope. Its uncomfortable but life changing.

So does that mean I now want to be the small fish and everything is peachy?

Nah, I still kick and scream and my Loving and Patient Jesus walks with me and The Holy Spirit reveals to me continually about His plan.  God is loving and merciful,  and He is JUST. What he says will go, it's just up to us if we want to experience His plan or stumble along in our own plan.

"So also will be the word that I speak— it will not fail to do what I plan for it; it will do everything I send it to do."
-Isaiah 55:11 GNT

This is the verse that finally got me to stop kicking and screaming about India and I pray it blesses you.

Love God and the rest will follow...