EMPOWERING LIVES WITH PURPOSE:
It’s easy to settle into the mindset that life is good because I am good. But in reality, life is good because God is good, and everything He does serves a greater purpose in our lives.
If you’re in a season of “favor” and you’re in “running motion,” it is a time to get focused and run with patient endurance. It’s a time to do great things, bear much fruit, and to make up for lost time. It’s time to run with purpose in every step.
This is not the time to sit on the couch of comfort and ease. And it’s certainly not a time to doddle with things that don’t matter. Sabbath rest and moments of replenishment are essential in all of our seasons of life, but I’ve found that in the “run” season, there will be times when you want to rest and you even think you should rest, but God still calls you to run.
(A quick caveat: God calls us to regular Sabbath rest, which, if we fail to practice, we’ll fall headlong into burnout. Even the “run” season of our lives involves regular sabbath rest.) Are you taking adequate time in silence in your life?
Each time you step forward in utter faith and you “run,” God will meet you, strengthen you, show up and work wonders through you, but you must rest in Him to get strengthened. Learn to trust Him more and accomplish the impossible with God.
Don’t forget, seasons are God ordained and purposeful. God is working all things for His good purposes. So, enjoy the season you are in.
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” (1 Corinthians 9:24)