This past Sunday night 13 of us went to Western Hills church of Christ in Temple for an Area Wide teen worship. The theme was Ascend. We had a great time and Western Hills did a great job of hosting over 100 teens and sponsors.
The lesson given by Brandon Baker (the Youth Minister at Western Hills) really challenged me to look at some things in my Christian walk.
There is a website called My Average Life (I kid you not, Google it) and on this website people use their twitter accounts to update things that are happening to them that are “average.” Here’s an example taken directly from the site, “Today, I passed an aisle with bug spray in it. One companies motto was "kills bugs dead." Is there another type of killing that doesn't involve death that I'm not aware of?” You can read more of people’s average days if you wish.
Here’s the point, if you read these posts from different people, very few of them seem to be unhappy with being “average.” They seem to be okay with the knowledge that they aren’t changing the world or someone’s life for the better.
As Christians, we should never be happy with being “average.” God, the creator of the universe did not call us to mediocrity! He wants us to be above average!
He doesn’t want us to accept being like everyone else, or “giving it our best shot.” God wants us as his children to go all out! He wants us to “go big or go home!”
God wants us to get rid of the things that were keeping us from being above average. He wants us to sacrifice those things that keep us from being the best.
Paul encouraged Timothy to be above average in 1 Timothy 4:12-16 and 2 Timothy 1:6, 7.
Make a decision today that you will be above average in your service to God. Sacrifice the things that are keeping you from doing that. As the Nike commercials use to say, “Just do it.”
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