Sometimes I feel like maybe we’re getting too big for our britches at Elevation.
Too audacious.
Setting lofty goals that are laughable and preposterous.
Like we’re asking God for too much, too fast.

Then I read something like this in the Bible:

Isaiah 49:6
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.
I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

I’m so naïve, and ultimately I guess I’m arrogant.
Because the ultimate form of pride is dreaming dreams and living life according to the parameters of my personal limitations.
I categorize this as pride because it factors God out and idolizes human ability.
It gives my opinion of myself veto power over God’s promise concerning me.

It turns out God isn’t intimidated by my big requests.
He is insulted by my puny ones.

God isn’t playing catch up with us.
He’s putting the ball back on the tee again, trying to get us ready to play some real ball.

His abilities and purposes are not the limiting factors here.
Our outdated and fragmented imaginations are.

When we set our Year 2 goals at Elevation, we wrote down a number of people we wanted to see receive Christ as Savior this year.
That goal was surpassed in month 2.
We dreamed too small.
Shame on us.
I’d like to say we’ll do better next time. But we probably won’t.
God’s people have a historical habit of forgetting His faithfulness and underestimating His power.

I’m sorry to say that your dreams are too small too.
You serve the God of inexhaustible, all sufficient, overflowing resource.
Whatever you might imagine God wants to do through your life in your most faith-filled, bold, reckless moments, multiply it by 10.
Take it to the 100th power.
Double it again.
Now you’re starting to uncover a fraction of the blueprint God has already drawn up.

God isn’t waiting for you to downsize your prayers before He answers them.
He demands an upgrade.

He’s not scared by your self-proclaimed unrealistic expectations.

He’s more like:
“Is that all you’ve got?”