Here I am, Lord (a little-known legend)

Last night I really liked the new series starting in the youth about being legendary for God. For me, what I'm learning is, being legendary is simply being obedient. Uggh. That isn't a very fun,passionate, exciting word. Obedience.Submission.Humility.Legendary? My thought has always been to have a legendary life you must have an exciting ,adventureous life. Over in the book of Acts, beginning of chapter nine, Jesus does an extraordinary thing in the life of an ordinary man.I had never thought of this man too much until last night when I was trying to sort out what God considers legendary. You may think I'm speaking of Paul, but, no, not this time.(Verse ten) Jesus appears in a vision to a man sleeping peacefully in Damascus,"Ananias!" The man quickly jumps up and simply responds with this,"Here I am, Lord" Can you imagine while sleeping in your ordinary town, doing your ordinary service for God, and He speaks out loud to you? How would you answer? Then listen to what Jesus says next!!"Ananias, go down the street and go to the house of Judas and ask for a man named Saul...." Jesus goes on to explain to Ananias that he wants him to heal the blindness of a man named Saul's eyes and to have faith because Saul knows his name and that he will come to heal him. Ananias answers,"I have heard of him and his evil deeds to the christians. He has said he has authority to bind up anyone who calls on Thy name!!" But, if you keep reading you'll see, despite Ananias' fear that he couldn't obey, he did obey God and healed Saul's eyes. Afterwards, Saul was renamed Paul and he went on to write most of our New Testament!! My point being, I don't think he could've done what he did so well blind!! Jesus wants us to be legendary in His eyes. I doubt many people think of Ananias as a legend, but in God's eyes I'm sure he holds a high place. (Ananias did make the bible after all!!) I want to remember God isn't always gonna make us a legend in the eyes of men, but if we are obedient He will reward us. God can use our simple obedience and submission to accomplish great things for Him.