3 ft of Velcro

"I'll take 3 feet of Velcro," I said as the woman behind the counter looked at me perplexed. I'd imagine she was wondering what anyone would need three feet of Velcro, 8 yards of elastic and the strongest black sewing string they had available for. I was making a belt! Well, it was actually to be more of a harness than a belt. Each person on the team that I travel with for the summer has a a microphone that is used at each church or camp that we visit. The hands-free microphone attached to a power pack is a little bigger than a deck of cards. I know that sounds small, but when I am moving around on stage it is hard to hold the pack in my pocket and if I try to clip it to my belt, it will fall off. Therefore, I devised this plan to hand-make a holder for this power pack that would go around my waist. Within a few days, I got very excited about my new idea and that is what brought me to this craft store to buy all the supplies I would need for the entire team to produce one of these beauties and be a part of my newest fashion trend.
I can remember the night in a hotel room in western Pennsylvania when I finished this work of art. It had taken me a few hours, and I was surprisingly excited about my new invention. At that point, my excitement did not come from the fact that I would now be able to carry a power pack to a microphone more conveniently. You see to anyone else that looked at this harness, it was just a poorly sewed piece of elastic with some Velcro attached to it. But to me, it was a lot more. It was my creation, it was something that I created for a specific purpose and because I created it, I was excited about it. But that was back in April and by the time the summer came around I had no idea where I had packed it away. Then in the middle of our third week of camp this summer, I was going through a box of different wires and equipment when I came across the harness, my creation. I did not think twice before I took the elastic harness and secured it to the bedpost so that I could have a holder for my cell phone. Then at the end of the week, I had an extra pair of clothes out after I had packed my luggage away in the bus. So wrapped the harness around my extra clothes as I was packing up the last of my things. I remember a passing remark I made to one of my team mates saying, "I can't believe that this is the only use I have gotten out of this all summer!" Last Friday we were at a church in Delaware and as we were unpacking all of our equipment, I came across the harness. I laughed to myself, and brought it with me into the church. That night I used the harness. I know that I had already used to to hold my cell phone and to secure some of my clothes, but I began to feel that excitement that I had back when I created it. This is because I was experiencing this harness doing exactly what it was created to do, and as the one who created it, I was overjoyed to see how good of a job it was doing. Now I know at this point you might be laughing to yourself thinking "It's just a belt, what is the big deal?" But, like I said before, this excitement is rooted in the fact that I created it for a specific purpose and it was doing exactly what I had created it to do.
Now think about God, the One who created you and I, the One who has a specific purpose for each one of our lives. I can not imagine how excited God gets when He sees those He created doing exactly when He created them to do. It is comforting to know that there is a God who loves me and has a plan for my life.
I want to become the kind of person that lives this kind of life, one that is committed to exactly what it was created for, whether it would be a musician, millionaire or even a microphone holder.