Is Your Imagination Big Enough?

You, yes you, are called to greatness. But can you believe it? Can you imagine you being great?

In his first address to youth as Pope, Benedict XVI, said: “The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things.” The call for this rising generation is the call to greatness. Not greatness in the world’s eyes, but thegreatness of disciples. And this requires above all a deep personal transformation, a generosity in life, a total self-donation, and a patient love. “When [Christ] speaks of the cross that we ourselves have to carry,” Benedict continues, “it has nothing to do with a taste for torture or of pedantic moralism. It is the impulse of love, which has its own momentum and does not seek itself but opens the person to the service of truth, justice and the good. Christ shows God to us, and thus the true greatness of man.”

Most of us cannot imagine ourselves being great Christians, Christians who makes difference in the world. But we can. If we believe and we expand our imagination.

God is wants us to be great but we hinder Him with our self-pity and self-doubt. What we forget that our greatness will come from His grace and not from our own effort. What God needs is our cooperation. He needs us to expand our imagination so He can do the miraculous in us.

Most of the great people in history had big and wild imaginations. Most of the great inventors were thought to be crazy for dreaming their invention. But now they have gone down history as great men and women who made this world a better place. All because they did not let the opinion of others and failure diminish their imagination.

Three of my favorite Biblical Figures are Joseph the Dreamer, Joseph the husband of Mary and Mary herself. Joseph the dreamer believed in his prophetic dreams even though all hell broke loose in his life. He kept his imagination and believed that all his dreams will come through.

St. Joseph needed to expand his imagination to accept that his wife has conceived a child by the power of the Holy Spirit. You need to have some imagination to believe such thing. But the best of them all was Mary. It really takes not only a big imagination but an extraordinary imagination for her to believe that she will conceive without a man. But the most far off thing she has to believe was she, a human, will conceive God. Now that is what I call imagination!

Is your lack of imagination hindering your greatness?

Then maybe it is time to let God expand your imagination.

Imagine to be great, by God's grace you will be.