Reaching for more than the normal

I've been doing a whole lot of thinking lately in between all of the production work that I've been doing at work. I've been wondering how often we as the church settle for the normal when we could have the extraordinary. How many times have you and I been told that God wants to bless us and then we turn around and run right to the normal? I can think of several things in my life, but I'll talk about my music since that's been at the forefront here lately. I feel called to go and be a full time musician. I've felt like this for a while and I've even met some of the people, through my radio job, who could help make that happen. But every time I get up the courage to begin believing in that call I get my legs taken out from under me by the world. The call of "You're not good enough!" or "No one will take you seriously!" echo in my head as if they had been yelled from the top of the Grand Canyon. I normally wrestle these thoughts for a while until I come to the realization that they are just not true. Lately I've realized that I have a choice to make when those thoughts start. I can choose to believe them and wrestle with them until I come back to the same place I started or I can choose to believe the call, reach for more than the normal, and step out into the extraordinary that God has called me to. When I choose the extraordinary it opens the door for me to receive the blessings that God has for me because I'm being faithful to what he has called me to. I hope that this thought helps you as much as it does me. Lets reach out for the extraordinary!