Have you ever misplaced your favorite hat, or your favorite purse, or your favorite shoes, or your favorite pen, the remote control, and please — let’s not mention your cell phone?
Even though those things are small, once missing, you realize what a big part they play in your life. Let’s raise the bar.
Do you have dreams and visions that remain just that, dreams and visions? Sure you do; why, it’s because those dreams and visions don’t play a big role in your life; you’re comfortable. You’re comfortable in your favorite hat, purse, shoes, surroundings, and lifestyle believe it or not, but you’re still dreaming; still wishing; still hoping.
Did you know it’s been said, people doing the same old things looking for change/different results, are considered insane, [ Albert Einstein ].
The majority of us don’t want to leave what we’re doing if it requires a certain amount of change. It’s difficult to leave a sure thing behind in search of the un-sure — says you. We’re too accustom, too comfortable, and too quick to accept the worst, or mediocre, rather than being un-comfortable to realize the better, and perhaps best.
The Hebrews who left Egypt for the Promised Land had this mindset. They blamed Moses for taking them into the Wilderness to die. They murmured things weren’t so bad back in Egypt being slaves – (Exodus 16:3), and – (Numbers 11:10).
So, what about you? Are you content being an Egyptian slave too; murmuring with excuse after excuse why you can’t change? Why you can’t leave behind what you’re doing, and YOU KNOW God’s calling.
God punished that group of Hebrews because they kept visioning back, instead of forward, regardless of all the miracles God preformed for them while they were in the wilderness; their punishment, an eleven day journey took forty years – (Deuteronomy 1:2,3), and all above the age of 20 died before entering the Promise Land – (Numbers 14:29). They couldn’t leave Egypt behind.
Angles of God literally gathered Lot, his wife, and two daughters by the hand, telling them, to get out of Sodom and Gomorrah Now! and don’t look back – (Genesis 19:15-17); but Lot’s wife couldn’t do it. She looked back and turned into a pillar of salt – (Genesis 19:26). Her heart, and her vision, were not about moving forward, because she was comfortable in Sodom and Gomorrah. She didn’t want to face change. She didn’t want to leave what she was so acquainted/familiar behind, and she perished.
Imagine — Angles of God literally have you by the hand saying, let’s go. It’s time to get out of here, we’re not playing, but inside your heart you’re reluctant, unwilling, and hesitant. What more do you need?
God gives us dreams and visions to pursue; not shelve. We’ve got to be willing to leave some things behind when called, and forget about that hat, forget about those shoes, forget about your comfortable way of life, get rid of the I can take it or leave it attitude about your life’s future.
Shoot for the Moon because if you miss, you’ll land among the Stars.
Only skim comfort off the top of progress.
With new visions come new comforts, but don’t get comfortable so that you can’t leave things behind when God calls – (Mark 16:15), (Jeremiah 29:11), and – (Luke 9:2-6).
How do you know when God is calling? When you’re losing hope/sinking; depressed, about to turn into a pillar of salt, because you’re looking back, accepting and re-living yesterdays, instead of leaving it behind; content and fulfilled with self-pity; false purpose, and satisfied to limit God. … Ouch!
Gaidi