What Is Your Big Need?

“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”

Mark 10:51 (NIV)

The blind man, Bartimaeus, didn't vacillate when asked the question, “What do you want me to do for you?”

Do you know how hard it would be for most of us to answer that question? The difficulty would arise not because we don't have answers, but because we haven't narrowed them down to the most significant need. If Jesus had offered us that same invitation, some of us would probably respond, “How many choices do I get?”

But Bartimaeus lived every day having resolved what his big need was in life. He didn't pause or waver: “Lord, I want to see.”

Here is perhaps one of the most significant questions you’ll have to answer relative to your relationship with Jesus: What is your big need in life? And before you answer, just know it's never based on temporal or human positioning. It's not about status among others or pursuit of riches or climbing the social ladder. It is always and will forever be a matter of the spirit. It'll always be worked out in the heart, in the mind, and in the soul.

So my question to you is “What's your big need?” 

• Is it to own the uniqueness of your personality as destined by God, so you can stop role-playing for other people based on their expectations?
• Is it to accept the path that God wills for your life and the need to center yourself on that road?
• Is it to stop seeing the movements of your life as accidental and to start seeing them as purposeful and providential?
• Is it to learn how to embrace and interpret everything through spiritual lenses and define God in it all?
• Is it to learn that even your pain and your pressure are carrying gifts from God that can only be delivered in the package that has caused your tears?
• Is it to walk in rhythm with the way God has ordered your steps and to resist the pull and push of other people?
• Is it to stop hiding your anointing, stop side-stepping your calling, and to embrace what God wants for you? 

What's your big need in life? I promise you that if you answer that, you have also found your big why in life.