11/12/2020
What feels like the end is often the beginning of something new. When you feel dead and buried just know that you’ve really been planted and with some watering, nurturing and growth, you will come out of this “grave” and flourish again.
I know first hand how this feels. Starting something new requires a few simple things:
1) Fresh vision. See with your passions, your talents and your dreams. Stop looking with just your eyes. Sight tells you what is. Vision tells you what can be. Get up and dream again. Your failures don’t define you, they only make you more aware of where you need to grow, what you need to change and how you need to heal.
2) A new plan. Scratch the old plan. Many times when life happens, we try to hang on to the old stuff and mix it in with the new. We get hooked on the dysfunction. We don’t know how to live without worry, doubt and fear. Jesus said you can’t put new wine in old wine skins. In other words, the old way of doing things won’t work in this new season. God has a plan for you. He has an agenda that he wants to accomplish through our lives and it requires fresh perspective.
3) Courage. This is the hardest one of all. It takes guts to start something new, to move on or to just take a step. It takes all the strength you can muster to do the first 2 things I mentioned, especially when you feel beat down, discouraged and overwhelmed. But that’s when you get up, get ready and attack the day. With tears in your eyes, you remember whose you are and who He said you are. There’s no way David wasn’t scared. You can’t tell me Noah wasn’t a little concerned when it began to rain. Daniel definately had some anxiety. But you pick up the 5 stones and face that giant. You shut the door to the ark and hold on tight. You just pray for the faith to believe that you will not only survive, you will thrive.
This is my daily routine. My new normal. Is it easy? No way. Are there bad days? Absolutely. But just remember: Your story isn’t finished. Mine either.
