Plodding Visionaries

It has been a while since I posted. This was something I wanted to post back when I started so it might be little old, however I still think its good.

This is something that Kevin DeYoung has said already but this is still something I am convicted of.

Something Kevin DeYoung said at Next something about "we need less revolutionaries and more plodding visionaries." also and article he wrote, "The Glory of Plodding" both get at the idea of being steadfast, faithful, consistent, being in the race, preserving, ect.

So the questions that follows are:
1) What is wrong with being a revolutionary? aka TAZ (listen to the sermon on the Church)
2) What is Plodding Visionaries?
3) Why is it important?

I think DeYoung explain this the best

My generation in particular is prone to radicalism without followthrough. We have dreams of changing the world, and the world should take notice accordingly. But we’ve not proved faithful in much of anything yet. We haven’t held a steady job or raised godly kids or done our time in VBS or, in some cases, even moved off the parental dole. We want global change and expect a few more dollars to the ONE campaign or Habitat for Humanity chapter to just about wrap things up....what’s harder: to be an idolized rock star who travels around the world touting good causes and chiding governments for their lack of foreign aid, or to be a line worker at GM with four kids and a mortgage, who tithes to his church, sings in the choir every week, serves on the school board, and supports a Christian relief agency and a few missionaries from his disposable income?.....Until we are content with being one of the million nameless, faceless church members and not the next globe-trotting rock star, we aren’t ready to be a part of the church.

With my own life I see that soo much. I want big thing, and start BIG things but they fail because there is no endurance. I want to change the world but I can't even change a simple habit of mine. I want to shine, instead of making Christ shine. Part of me just really want everything to happen quickly and powerfully... I mean who does not want that? right? right.... But I have no patience for things I don't know how to be steadfast, faithful, self-control, enduring, and diligent. which in every way Bible tell me to be.

A Plodding Visionary (I think) is someone that is faithful with the little things. They are steadfast, solid, firm. someone that does the daily routines joyfully and faithfully. Who goes to service Sunday after Sunday, who serves week after week, meet with God day after day. Being faithful to what God has call them to do time after time. Faithful when the world is not watching.

Someone who lives(or seeks to live) a life of obedience not just a composition moments of obedience where it could be seen.

Why is this important?

For me this sobers my mind. remembering that I am not the center of the show but Christ. Reminds me of how much my heart longs for it self. Reminds me of how much this life is about God and His glory and fame. That starts with me being faithful to what the little He had given me. I am just another nameless and faceless worshiper of God.