Squat, you know, like find a group of people or a cause or a ministry and squat on it. Claim it. Stake my flag on it. Leave my fingerprints all over it and call it Mine. Put a protective fence around it and require permission to enter. Give myself wholly unto it. Pour my time and energy into it until I am exhausted and spent.
Squatting usually comes with a title, a list of duties, expectations and is performed in a building, usually on Sundays and sometimes even with mediocrity because it’s not our passion. Ok, maybe that is a bit unfair, but…
While this kind of serving sounds all righteous and committed, I’m thinking that for the majority of us it’s dangerously close to a religious service project than God’s Plan. Instead of Ministry Squatting with some undying commitment to duty, what if our single focus was finding and following God’s plan for our life, whatever it is and wherever it leads? Why is this even a struggle for me? I mean, God would not write a plan for my life from the beginning of time and then play hide and seek with it.
My struggle? Yielding. Yielding my squat…I don’t like Yielding. I’m not even fond of the letter Y. I’m a peddle to the metal kind of girl. Do first, ask questions later. Translation…I think it might be…Agenda masquerading as the more pc term Goal. Doing for the sake of doing just because I can.
I’m working on redefining my Squat. I want to be so on Mission with His plan for me that I disappear and all that remains is a Funnel. A Funnel that HIS energy flows through, instead of mine. A Funnel for His gifts and talents which almost effortlessly sustain the work; His work…and my Passion for it so great that even in exhaustion or frustration I’m completely Spiritually and humanly energized. I want to be so invested in the Plan that to move on to a new thing is as exciting as opening the cover of a fresh new book…maybe a long awaited sequel where the character is familiar but new adventures await…
Yep, I’m thinking…thou shalt not squat.
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