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We all hate spoilers. When a new season/episode of your favorite TV show is released, the last person you want to see is that overzealous friend who somehow got their hands on the series before everyone else, binge watched the whole thing and now just finds pure joy in ruining it for everyone else by spilling all the juice. Some of us even go as far a deliberately avoiding contact with them until we get to watch the episode for ourselves (don't you just hate how the really cruel ones love chasing you around as you scream, hands over your ears so you wouldn't hear a thing they say?). [ 749 more words ]

HERE’S ONE SPOILER ALERT YOU’D LOVE TO HEAR! We all hate spoilers- but you’d love this!

Run well.
Finish strong.
Everything else is something else.

It's naïve to think that because a dream is important to you, it will naturally stay top, front and centre in your heart.
The logic of that sounds correct but life has a way of crushing logic.

That's why it is VITALLY IMPORTANT that you consciously remind yourself of your dreams, of what's truly important to you, what you are here to do.

That reminder is not some complex process.
Write down that dream. Yes, pen and paper style.
Look at it everyday- on those days you feel invincible and when you feel invisible as well. Look at that dream. That's not hard is it? No one is asking you to do it all at once. But look at it- everyday.
It will inspire you sometimes and accuse you at other times- but look all the same.

Cheers to your progress!

ON WAITING WHILE RUNNING (PART 2).

In the first part of this post, we saw that there is a constant tension between the enormity of the tasks God commits to us and our awareness that we cannot deliver the expectations strictly on the basis of will power or personal skill.

So how do we exist in that space where we're fully aware of what he'd have us do, but calm enough to let him lead the way?

The answer is in one word- FELLOWSHIP.

it seems like as soon as God places a task on our heart and we 'get it', we become so juiced, scurrying around for resources; partners, platforms and paycheques to fund the fire in our souls.

But that's not His method. Every desire he burns into your soul is meant to trigger one reaction- a race to Him in fellowship.

"You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!"
John 5:39 NLT

Those 'powerful' words and images you've 'caught' do not point to an action, they point, FIRST, to a PERSON!
In relating with that person, you find the specific action(s) that deliver the task on your heart.

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. THEN SHALL YE CALL UPON ME, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
Jeremiah 29:11‭-‬13 KJV

Observe the progression- first the promise, then, not action, but fellowship.

His ways are not grievous; He gains no sadistic thrill from watching you scramble and scurry, trying to birth the things He's put in you.

But we do not impress God by running out as soon as we know what He's scheduled for us. That's not a proof of 'seriousness' or passion. It's ignorance- sincere ignorance.

The promise points to a person.
The person will authorize the action.
Respect the order- you'll go farther and last longer.

John 5:39; “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

Don't get so articulate about what you don't want, you forget how to describe what you want.