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The Same Place

June 20, 2018

The Same Place

The older I get the more I have a sense of urgency. I have so much left to do. With that said, I have less time to do it with as each year passes by.

For you younger folks the same principle applies to you. Every year you live, you have less time to accomplish your goals, and realize your dreams. Time is too precious to waste.

I heard someone quote a scripture this week, and it stuck to me. I began to think about the past. Missed opportunities, mistakes, incomplete dreams and

expectations.

More than anything I have shared, I pray that today you will be challenged and encouraged to be all you can be.

I read this week that many years ago, if the American Indians didn’t like someone they would curse them by saying, “May you stay in the same place.”

That is a very interesting statement. It is also very enlightening. What happens when you stay in the same place? You become stagnant. The word stagnant has some synonyms. “still, motionless, inactive, depressed, dying, dormant.”

We often relate that word to the smell of a small body of water with no in or out flow.” No growth, change, or moving.

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns.

Hosea 10:12

Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.

Farm land was often left uncultivated for a reason. To gain nutrients and for crop rotation. Left unplanted too long and useless things grow.

Jesus made a couple of statements while teaching in Luke the 9th chapter.

Luke 9:23

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

Luke 9:62

But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God

The message from these two scriptures is clear.

God is telling us that our destiny is not behind us, it is in front of us.

Still there are gifts that have been left alone. God placed them in our hearts to grow and have value to the Kingdom. Yet they lay dormant, and have been choked by doubt and fear of failure.

It is not about winning every time, it is however about getting up every time.” Leaving the failure or the mistake behind you in His grace, and moving forward in the gift that has been planted in you.

Here is the passage that stuck with me all week.

Philippians 3:12-15

12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;

Verse 15 Message

So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you’ll see it yet!

Conquer the past.