Do you ever look at your life and ask yourself “What does God want from me? I’m His, and He’s in my life so what does He want? I can be great; there is greatness in my obedience; so what will He do and why hasn’t He done it? I’m ready!”

Did it ever occur to you that all God wants is space?

God doesn’t need me to be great. He doesn’t even want me to be great. In fact the best thing I can do for Him is to get out of the way. Get my own will and my own agenda and pack those bags and give them their walking papers. There isn’t room in this man for the two of us. Somebody has got to go!

Step aside junior and let the Son of Man show you how it’s done. He’s gonna be knocking heads and taking names and if all goes well there’ll be some world shaking and nobody will remember my name.

That’s what He wants from me, space. Room to work. A place to take up residence. Blank walls and an open door. He wants my address to be His address. He wants people to be able to come to this temple looking for Him and find Him.

It’s not that I’m not valuable, He just wants better for me…than me. He wants me to have Himself.

I’m a child learning how to whistle, He’s the Symphony Orchestra. I’m finger painting, He’s Picasso. I’m a kid with a pea shooter and an inner tube, He’s the Sixth Fleet. Look, I’m me, and He’s God. If you were coach who would you put in the game? This is for all the marbles. This isn’t training camp for god wanna-be’s. There are lives at stake here - eternal lives. If I’m on God’s side in this war, I’ve got to step aside.

There was a sticker going around that read. “God is my co-pilot”. Then someone responded to that one with “If God is your co-pilot you better change seats”. Well it’s been my experience that if God is flying my plane I better just find a seat and hang on. He doesn’t need a co-pilot or a navigator or permission from the control tower, He’s flying by the seat of His robe and taking down the enemy. He’s the ‘Ace’ of the heavenlies and I’m not fit to fuel His plane.

Seems the only thing I do for Him is to serve as a bad example. I’d step into His shadow if He had one, but He just shines every which way! If I’m even close I’m enjoying His light it’s my shadow you see. If I’m really close His light shines right through me, and if I embrace Him, all you’ll see is Him, you won’t even know I’m there.

Read Revelation 19, starting at verse eleven. “ Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God…15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” Sound like someone who needs your help? That is Jesus at His return. And where are we? “14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.” We’re right there BEHIND Him. I think that’s the place to be because He grabs the Enemy leaders, the Beast and the False Prophet, and throws them alive into the Lake of Fire. Then He alone kills the rest of the evil army with the Sword that came out of His mouth. And where are we this whole time? It doesn’t say, it doesn’t say we ever came out from behind Him. I think we never get our robes of fine linen dirty. I think our white horses know better than to get in His way.

Our place is to point to Him and give Him space; to embrace Him so that His light shines through us, and to worship Him, because He alone is worthy. That’s all He wants from us.