The way to be great is to honour God in whatever you do.

You're thirsty and you see a drink machine - Lemon Barley, Iced Tea, Coke, Sprite, Horlicks, Milo and Zapple. You insert a coin, and hit the button for Zapple. But oh no, you instantly realize somewhere along the nervous system a message was sent wrongly, and you had pressed Lemon Barley instead. Yuck, you hate Lemon Barley. You don't even like Barley, and with Lemon, it was more repulsive. What do you do?

Patrina would know what I did - complain, make a lot of noise and pity myself.

While this sounds pretty comical, its what happens to most of us when we make decisions with apparently undesirable outcomes. The drink's sold out, we press the wrong button or even if we press the right button, the drink came out wrong. Things don't turn out the way we expect and least the way we want. Our ideals are not available, our ignorance or carelessness cause us to make these decisions or so often its, "I have no idea what went wrong."

That is me, guilty. Living with so much idealism, and often finding myself more miserable then ever. I only believed in finding the "Zapple" of my life.

But- smack, boom, bang, crash!- only today did it dawn on me that this unpredictability of life is what calls for a focus on God. Whatever you get, you live with it, and you honour God with it. Its not finding the Zapple of your life that is powerful, because you never know when you get it, or if you'll even get it eventually.

Lemon Barley? Fine. Drink it, and you'll still satisfy your thirst. Make the best of whatever you get, and that is what God wants from you. Greatness is when you are able to honour God - Zapple or not.