Make a Dent where you are Sent

I really liked this statement I heard on the radio yesterday. “Make a dent where you are sent.” I can’t credit the comment since I don’t know who was talking and I lost the station before he finished making his point. But we can understand what he was getting at. Leave an impression. Let the world know you were here.

You probably know someone who never got to be what they wanted. Their dreams of a family or college degree or dream job never came to fruition. Maybe you’re that person. Maybe you feel like you’ve messed up royally and made mistakes that can’t be undone. You may ask; “How can God use me when I’m not where I was supposed to be at this point in my life?”

Isn’t technology amazing? Don’t you love those Google images where you can see the whole planet in real time? The images that zoom in on one continent, then a country, then a state or territory and finally your city, your neighborhood, your street, and all the way to your front door. Sitting on our own stoop it’s easy to forget the magnitude of those world images. We see our roof, our treetops, our sidewalk, our teeny, insignificant skyline, and they close us in. So do our problems.

Our eyes tend to see the worst in a situation. Our vision is very narrow. We can’t see down the road. We can’t imagine how our current rotten situation can ever be used for good.

We’ll never see our lives or our world the way God does. But it’s important to remember that he can. He is God. We are not. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. Those mistakes we made, those cruel words we hurled at a loved one, the decisions we wish we could remake—God can use it all to impact our world. We can’t imagine how, but he can and he will once we get out of the way.

Make a dent where you’re sent today. Don’t think what you do it too small or too unimportant. You can impact someone today. Leave an imprint that you were here.