A part of you desires to stay the same because it's familiar. Yet the frustration has been the only thing consistent in your life for a while. My friend, it's not easy to kick against the pricks. When destiny is calling you higher everything in you is ready, prepared, in motion to move forward... just as a woman going into labor. Once it begins, her body is already positioned to push that baby outside of her. No matter how hard she may try, she can't keep it inside of her. Life is the same.
When destiny calls, everything is in position to propel you forward but constant resistance will cause you more harm than anything. So, I’m writing today to say, it's OK to move forward. Move forward into that unfamiliar territory. To that place where no one looks like you or where you’ve come from for that matter. That's the only way you are going to grow into the woman or man you are called to be. You can’t pour new wine into old wine skin. There is so much waiting for an on you.
One thing stood out to me this week, which is a very familiar verse; Esther 4:14. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your fathers family will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Basically, if you don’t step out of your comfort zone, it’s still going to be done. The show will not stop just because of you not answering.
For someone like myself who likes familiarity & comfort this is not easy, but I'm having to walk it out... I’m finding myself in a place, where I am having to stretch out. I wanted my friends to come with me. I wanted my old boyfriend to come with me. I wanted my moma to come with me. I didn’t want to cross this bridge alone… or better yet with those I’m unfamiliar with. Unfortunately, when Jesus had to go to calvary, he had to make that journey by himself also. Am I comparing this struggle to His? By all means that’s a cross I could never bare, but I, we, have our own crosses we must bare in order to get to the next destination. Will it be easy, by all means no… but in the great words of Eric Thomas, if it was easy everyone would do it.
Take that leap. Hold your breath if you have to, but take the leap and then take another one. Although you can’t see it right now your life is calling you deeper & there is so much you have not seen or experienced.
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