Pete and repeate went into a store...

I have been challenged lately. The classic adage if you want the same results keep doing the same thing but don’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. I want different results. More than that. I feel drawn out of the boat I am riding safely in into the unknown in order that I as a person become closer to the man God has planned for me to be.

Let me give you a few examples...
Message prep- I am re-working how I prepare my messages. I take to long and am not getting them done until the week of. I am starting to work on a series five weeks out. If I can be weeks ahead then our overall product will improve and there will be more margin for God to speak.
Study Time- margin is needed to give me room in my schedule to study. Leadership, theology, creative new ideas, or just to journal and write out my God thoughts/ man thoughts.
Meetings- how and who I spend my time needs to be evaluated as we grow. Our church leadership meetings need to be redrawn up. The way we worked in the past while great and fun is not the way to grow to the next level. In the future we will continue to have fun it will just come about in a different way.
Date nights- I want to be more intentional about how I spend my quality time with Olivia and Elizabeth.
Fitness- I am not happy with my body and have only one option… RUN FOREST RUN!
Evangelism- I want to be a better fisher of men. Looking for every opportunity to show people around me Christ.
There are a bunch more and I am in the middle of this process.

Here is what I know. This is not a tomorrow thing. I am chipping away at one or two parts at a time. This will make me… a better father, husband, friend, pastor, student, worshiper. I tell you this not to show you how spiritual I am rather to draw you out of the boat of mediocrity with me. Look at your life. Look over the rail and out into the great unknown of what could be. If you have been stuck… not feeling that stretch, that free fall, that “ok… God, LETS GO!” in a while. Then chart your course with me. Write down some areas that God is leading you to walk in a new direction in. Then hop the guard rail and walk into the place God has destined you for!
We are on a journey. Many of us stop along the way and think we are fine staying in the spot that has provision. But I am convinced that there is more! That there is a beautiful bounty ahead of me. A place in my life with a greater sense of significance, influence, sanity, joy, peace, adventure, vision, responsibility, and a place that will make God smile broadly with joy at my worshipful obedience.

Any thoughts on how God is changing you or areas he is calling you out in? I would love to hear.

Comments

[Lance]

Tory that was a great post! I find myself in the same place.

[Bryce]

Good stuff. I don't think we live to the full potential (props to HighPoint) that God has for us until we step out of that provision, like you said. Embrace uncertainty... What is God up to?