dailydatewithgod

There are so many parts that make up any given system.  As individuals we each play a role in our relationships, in the economy, in our idea sharing, in making things, in nature, and so on.  A number of us often go around thinking we do not matter or at least we do not matter that much.  It keeps us from speaking up.  Perhaps somewhere along the way, we were not given a sense of our value or we were valued only for what we could do. Either way not knowing the cog we are in the grand scheme of life leaves us disconnected from the truth of who we are.  We do not see the value we provide as a cog in life that God does.  We assume one little action of ours will not make a difference but we cannot see the whole picture.  We see seconds of impact, God sees millions of ripple effects.  Comically, this was portrayed in the movie Forrest Gump.  He clearly was not someone that most people thought had particularly high value because they perceived him as a stupid. Yet he was a pivotal cog in the wheel of life of so many people like Elvis and Lt. Dan, the events of relations with China to Watergate, and of course those with whom he was in close relationships like Jenny and little Forrest. Forrest was a cog that impacted popular culture and changed the lives of others for the better.  He did it by being himself.  We are the cog that transforms life for so many when we learn to see our role as part of the greater whole.  Like Forrest, we never know when being the cog in the wheel is the very one needed to make the gears move and make incredible things happen.  Our work is to simply show up as the cog we are and allow God to handle working the gears.