Many things are easy to talk about, know about, but doing those things is entirely different. Many times we think we need to do bigger or different when the truth is we need to do what we already know to do better. The bigger will come but only with the better. I personally made a decision many years ago to a lifetime of growth.
For growth and the better you have to make decisions. You must remember that no decisions is a wrong decision. And when you make a decision with a heart posture of faith and integrity God will protect you. Father God can not direct someone that is not moving and just sitting. “For being as he is a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), he is unstable and unreliable, and uncertain about everything he things, feels, decides.” James 1:8. Go ahead and make the decision to do it God’s way even in the middle of the battle of weariness. We are all tempted to tire out. Paul tells us twice in the Word of God, “do not grow weary in well doing.” When we push back on weariness we build endurance. “3 And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance; 4 and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation].” Romans 5:3-4.
So, when doing better gets tough- Paul says don’t grow weary. The doing better comes from being intentional. In Titus 3:14 it says, “let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.” This does not happen without effort. This doing better is not just when life is peaceful and comfortable, it is for the times of conflict and stretching.
C.S. Lewis said, “hardship often prepares ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
When we read Hebrews 12, it is interesting to me that our lives are compared to a long distance race. A life of endurance. The word for race in Greek in this verse is agona. It is very much like our English word agony. Understanding that any time there is a long distance run every part of your being will be affected by it.
This is why it is so important to win the war in your head. Don’t give up- keep running. You have to think possibilities not problems. Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts. The Bible says, “as a man thinketh so is he.” You have to know that you were created for righteousness. When you tap into your divine cause, you will be fulfilled, bold, and passionate. If you don’t tap into your divine cause, you will be frustrated, destructive, critical, and bored. Weariness has to go when you recognize that you are fighting from victory and not for victory. The moment you are in does not stop the mission you are on.
You are here by God’s appointment. You are here in God’s timing. You are here to be under God’s training. You are here for God’s keeping. You are here for God’s purpose. Remember Father God’s past faithfulness is a predictor of tomorrow’s promise. Do not make decisions based on temporary desires, but make decisions based on your divine destiny. God is not obligated to your dreams, He is committed to His purpose for your life! Don’t grow weary! Do what is the best! Do the better!
Allison Bramlett 