#IStayBeinStretched
After busting out with laughter, I took that on as my new life motto for this season.
One of my daily prayers for so long has been for God to enlarge my capacity. To always give me new plates to spin for His Kingdom and the ability to spin them, WHILE passing off other plates to up and coming plate spinners. The thing about a prayer like that is God doesn't enlarge your capacity without giving you the things to do that will enlarge you. (Enter my current season.)
Just when I think I have hit a groove and am accomplishing things well, another plate or two come spinning my direction with my name on them. And to be honest....that's just as it should be and exactly how I want it.
God didn't create us to stay at the same capacity we've always been.
If a student who enters high school as a Freshman has the same intellectual level at Senior year, there is a problem and that is very clear to us. Yet in our daily walk with God we choose to stay at the same level as when we first got saved and see that as normal or acceptable. We do just enough to get by and never seek to grow and then wonder why things aren't changing and developing for us. Friends, God expects us to enlarge our capacity, to grow in every walk of our lives and every facet of our relationship with Him; emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally. Not for our own purposes, but for HIS purposes! To reach as many people as we can, to grow His Kingdom and to live this life He has given us to the absolute fullest.
God didn't create us to be complacent or average.
When growth makes itself known in our lives we have 2 options.
1. Step into it, unknown and all. (Grab those plates and spin em baby!)
2. Back away into comfortability.
Maybe God is asking you to spin the plate of "serving in Childrens Ministry" or "get your finances in order" maybe its even "write a book" WHAT IF, its all 3 of those at the same time?
If God has passed us the plates, He has equipped us to spin them and will direct us on how to spin them well when we trust Him.
Growing pains aren't fun, but when we remember we are growing because God is entrusting us with more, then it turns growing pains into growing gains. Then, before long we look around and we're in a new place. What once was difficult, we can now do with ease. What once seemed impossible is just another part of our day!
Too many people, are backing away into comfortability when they know they are created for more. Shying away from spinning a new plate because of what it might cost them. Is there a cost to growth? Absolutely. But its a cost well worth it when we view it in light of the cost Jesus paid.
Then He said to the crowd, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for My sake, you will save it. Luke 9:23-24
Who's ready to spin some plates?!
Signed
Sincerely,
#IStayBeinStretched
