We make a plan for our lives…. we dream… we seek a future… a road that we choose to follow, as we see fit, in order to reach the destination we have created for ourselves. This road, has been traveled by others before us. It has been traveled by others with the same dreams, the same desires, the same fleshly wants. There are footprints in this road…so many we don’t know which to follow and which to avoid. It is lined with many road signs: go forward, speed up, slow down, back up, yield, turn around. More times than none, we reach a dead-end. By the time we reach our destination, we lose who we are, who we wanted to become, and more importantly who GOD wants us to become. We must STOP! What is the purpose of trying to find ways to continue down that road, when the person we have become is not who we want to be? What is the purpose of being miserable in who we are and in a destination that leaves us longing for more?
Hopes and dreams, and all the things
That you have ever made
It don’t mean much if in the end
You have lost your way
STOP!! Refocus…..
Do not continue on the dead-end journey, a journey that you know is not going to change, a journey to a destination that is not complementary to your future.
STOP!! Make a change…..
“Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
Too many times, we get accustomed to the life, the journey, the destination. Too many times we choose to keep things as they are, no matter how dismal things have become. Too many times we fear letting go of the familiar. Too many times we lose out on a better life, a better journey, a better destination.
“In the midst of your greatest struggle lies the greatest opportunity for growth. You grow through struggle.”
When the “dead-end” of our journey is reached, we struggle….we struggle with worry, with fear, with pain, with hurt. We become afraid of the what if’s in life and the fears of regret. However, we can learn from these struggles….and by giving them to GOD….we can grow.
Guilt and pain…
Here and now
Lay them down at the Savior’s feet…
Let go of all you know
Only then can life be found
Surrender all you hold
Lay it down, Lay it down, Lay it down
STOP!! Seek HIM….
“The greatest thing in this life is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.”
“Leave the broken, irreversible past in God’s hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.”
Cry out to your Heavenly Father….. leave your will behind and seek after HIS PERFECT WILL. Let no dead end of your human desires stop you from seeking after the WILL OF GOD!! Do not continue on a journey or continually live in a destination that leaves you hungry….hungry for love…hungry for peace….hungry for happiness…hungry for an understanding….hungry for a WALK and a RELATIONSHIP with GOD. Do not remain in a destination of uncertainty or constraint. The past is the past and the present destination can be changed. The pain, the hurt, the worry, the fear……place them in the hands of JESUS CHRIST….and move FORWARD!! HE will take care of everything else, when you choose to follow after HIM.
STOP!! Pray….
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
Luke 11:9-10
When we seek after Christ and we choose to follow HIS WILL…..we surrender to HIM. We no longer choose to walk by fear, but by FAITH.
“FAITH makes things possible….not easy.”
The new road in HIM will not be easy, but HE has a plan and a purpose. Though we do not see the destination, HE does. When we ask for a way out, when we ask for direction, when we ask for a new journey and a new destination….HIS WORD says that WE SHALL RECEIVE, WE SHALL FIND, and the door SHALL BE OPENED. When HE answers your prayers….follow HIM. Hold on by faith to HIM. HE will lead you on a new road. It will be a road where the only footprints are HIS. It will be a journey where the only road signs say “FOLLOW ME.“
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be…
John 12:26
GO!!! Follow HIM by FAITH…..
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”
You will find yourself in HIM….in HIS journey for you….and then you will discover your new destination…a new dream…a new future….with all the fullness of love….of happiness…of peace….
What have you got to lose?
Think of all you have to gain
HIS light….your light…awaits….
at the end of a road yet untraveled…..that leads to a world yet unseen…….
YOUR road…..YOUR world…..HIS PERFECT WILL……
~BEK~
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