Standing Still Only Yields The Same Results
As yet another year comes to a close are you ready for the challenges tomorrow will bring? I have lived on both ends of the spectrum. Life is extremely challenging. What will we eat? Where will we live? Will my children be safe there? Will I have to fight somebody today for mistreating my family? Will I choose to live lawfully or will I compromise my integrity to merely survive in a system that was set up to entrap and subdue the weak? Don’t get me wrong, these are just a few of the choices I’ve had to make! Please never feel our conversations here are condescending. This platform is merely a place for me to be transparent or “real” as I used to say so that you will see that the life you think I have come with a lot of blood sweat and tears. Dear God the tears!! Anyway I digress, my question for you is what’s the plan? I’ve always been guilty of writing it down! My Daddy was a stickler about everything and I always had to make lists and devise a plan in order to merely live in his house. In this, I learned to always document my steps.
What would I like to get done? What did my parents expect to be done? How soon would it need to be done in order for me to have the time left to actually enjoy doing the first thing I had written on my list! Life skill learned....
Flash forward to any planned milestone in my life how did they occur? I reverted back to the only survival skill my minds eye knew. Write it down! Create a plan centered around my very first question on that list. What would I like to get done? So now I pose this same question to you. What would you like to get done? Next year is almost here and New Year goals are meaningless if we have no plan of action for what we intend to execute. Now there’s another major step! Plans are great, yet if we don’t execute those plans we yield more nothing! High yield of nothing leads to high levels of frustration, anger, self defeat, and of course let’s not forget the old standby thief of dreams nothing. None of which are things I’ve ever seen on anyone’s list of things to do. Have you? This picture was taken at the train station in Luxembourg a place I never even imagined myself going. Yet I ended up site seeing there.
I have learned that in living a life of faith vision casting is important. When you take 1 step God takes 2, 3, 4 before you know it you’re living that exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask or think kinda life described in Ephesians 3:20-21! It’s never all sunshine and roses don’t misunderstand me. But it sure can be quite beautiful if you genuinely decide to hear His Voice instead of the voices of the media, negative thinkers, and please stop speaking negatively to yourself. Love created you in His image then gave you angels to watch over you. Learn to hear His Voice and live out the plan He created you for!
Your destiny in Him is far greater than you’ve ever imagined! Remember you were placed here for a very unique and specific purpose so once you find that connection all of your trials and heartaches become mere stepping stones to a higher calling. I often say “cry if you must but never ever give up!” As I write this I’m facing yet another major challenge in my life but I believe my trials come to make me stronger. I believe my trials come to keep me relatable to a very specific group of people I was created to reach. I know this post is long but I need you to realize no matter what comes your way if you’ve got a plan all you will know how to do is keep moving forward even in the midst of life’s bumps in the road.
Promise me this you will write your plan and not only write it but live it because standing still only yields more of the same! I love y’all and I’m praying for you to hear and know beyond a shadow of a doubt Love lifted me and Love desperately wants to lift you too!
