Be The Example...

My new year wasn’t off to a great start like I thought it would have been. Our falling economy has hit my business like a ton a bricks, family issues dealing with illnesses and lost souls, and friends throwing daggers filled with disappointments. Sound familiar? What is one to do?

Through a string of events God has cleverly intertwined certain people in my life that have taught me some great lessons, recently. My Pastor, one of these people, is teaching on a series about making the climb to change. I believe the time has come for people to make a stand for what and who they believe in and move forward in growing up! Growing up spiritually, that is. The lessons at hand for each of us are not always easy and can take a tremendous amount of courage to humble ourselves to move forward. But that is what needs to be done in order to move forward. We all have choices to make and some may say it is easier to stand still and not make a choice. Do you realize that by not making a choice, you have made a choice? By not choosing you have made the choice to stay stagnant and not grow. Even if your choice ends up being the wrong choice, you stood for something and God can always use a something kind of choice, for His glory.

Life isn’t always fair! We are nothing more than mere humans that have been made faulty and we will always disappoint and make mistakes… wrong choices, its how we have been hard wired. God allows us free will of choice and when we mess up we need to know that in that moment we did the best we knew to do. He will strategically place certain people in our lives to show us where we were wrong and it is up to us to humble ourselves to allow the lesson to be learned so we can then grow.

Everything we do every place we go and everyone we know has been placed in our path for a reason. Sometimes it is to teach us something for our own personal growth and other times it is for the other person to grow through our acts and words. Remember as we are constantly watching others who walk this narrow path, we are constantly being watched too. In the end, it comes full circle… as we walk and live life, we make our choices. Those choices not only affect each of us personally but also the people around us and even those that we don’t know.

Isn’t it time to become humble and learn something so we can grow up? I can only speak for myself; I am tiered of being ignorant and having to rely on other ignorant and immature Christians to “try” to help teach me something. I am ready to be the few that will move forward towards growth to be the example that I (we) were truly meant to be.