6 When the Lord commanded the man in linen, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.7 Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out. Ezekiel 10
Sometimes, directions from God don't make a lot of sense to us. The man in linen was told to take fire in his own hands.
Take your BARE HANDS and grab some fire. Yeah, sign me up for this. The point is, he did it, even though it may have been weird and out of character.
A picture went viral earlier this week. A rapper took a picture of himself in a public restroom cleaning breast pump parts for his wife. He captioned it that this is what he does after his shows #thuglife
It was a completely out of the norm photo for this man - and it blew up in a very positive way. I looked a little through his posts and the previous picture he posted of himself at a concert had a measly 45 likes, but this breast pump part picture was well into the tens of thousands of likes. There's no telling then how many people saw it and didn't comment or like it (such as me).
Why does this relate to the verse? A man did something out of the ordinary for God's purpose. Did I mention earlier that this was a Christian rapper? That's right, his lyrics are about Christ and he uses his music as a means to spread God's word. That one picture went viral and was shared among a demographic that probably has never heard of him but now people are listening and checking him out.
God doesn't always call us to do huge, life-changing things outside of our normal realm. Sometimes, it's small, like taking a picture and posting it online. The result doesn't have to impact thousands, it may only impact one person. Trust in God when you do something our of your norm. He has you in his hands, and he has a plan.