“I’m a BIG girl. I can do what I want.” Oftentimes, these words proceed from my mouth when my husband asks me about my days, about my nights, or about my plans. Truly, it has become the running joke in our home—BEING BIG (as in BIG ENOUGH to do as we please).

“You’re a big girl, right,” my husband asked me with a smile because he knew as I knew that those words were repeated words from my own mouth—like ALL the time.
A BIG girl.
A BIG boy.
Are we?
Do we remember when we were not BIG, but yearned to be BIG?
Do we recall when BIG seemed so far away from where we lived when we were kids still living at home? (anyone like me who sometimes wishes to return to those carefree days of our childhood!!)
BIG.  It’s such a small word to denote such a huge event—growing up in age, growing BIG.
Today, I wonder if we should desire to grow up BIG in our relationship with Christ.  True, we need to desire spiritual maturity, & BIG and SPIRITUALLY MATURE are two separate words that are defined two different ways.
Do not believe my thinking about BIG but go with me into God’s Word to see what is true.

• King David was a valiant warrior who learned his skills when he was a boy tending his dad’s sheep.
• King David was a slayer of giants who learned how to readily use his sling and rocks whenever predators threatened his dad’s flock.
• King David was a follower of God, patient upon God’s timing even when he was pursued by King Saul and even when David had opportunity to kill King Saul—still David waited upon his Father’s timing.
• King David had his own problems, but he still understood what it meant to become spiritually mature and not seek to be BIG.
• King David knew how being “little” as a tiny child was a more precious place to reside in the LORD than to desire the place of BIGNESS.
• King David discovered this truth about our relationship with Christ that we can learn from and apply to our own lives.

And again…

• Let us desire to NOT be BIG but let us learn to fully TRUST God.
• Let us desire to NOT be SMART in our own thinking but let us learn to SEEK the WISDOM that comes only from God.
• Let us NOT WORRY or FRET or WRING our hands trying to figure out everything but let us SEEK to know God better.
• Let us NOT WONDER how we should fill our time—our minutes, our hours, our days, & our years because we are BIG GIRLS & BIG BOYS (who can do as we please)—BUT let us SPEND our time in the best way possible—SEEK to KNOW JESUS MORE & MORE as we worship the FATHER.
• For sure, we should NOT desire to be BIG in ourselves but RATHER, we should DESIRE to BECOME MIGHTY within God’s Power.

Let us NOT desire to be BIG but let us continually SEEK our LORD today & let us STAY close beside HIM—Just as we are—-HIS LITTLE CHILDREN.