I sit hear listening to worship music. It is late
or early depending on how you look at the time. Insomnia strikes hard at me
sometimes. I have written other words that I have left as a draft and I now
write these words instead.
It has been eight years since I have graduated
seminary with the dream of teaching people about Jesus. Since then I spent time
as a jeweler, a banker, and now I am a teacher. A mentor back in seminary
told us in a class that when we graduate if we had not made it in ministry
by the first five years, then we would probably never get there. Most people who graduate never get into
ministry. That was pretty heavy stuff to say to young seminarian
hopefuls.
As I sit here I turn these words over in my head
like prayer beads in the hands of a monk. The question that follows in my mind
is this, have you given up on your dream? I cannot help but smile at the
concept of giving up. My mentor meant those words to be a cautionary tale to
push us, but one wonders if he knew that they are seeds that can choke and kill
dreams. I am not say I have given up, I am bring up a point that for people who
are not me, his choice words he gave us that day could have grown and choked
out dreams causing them to settle.
Dream killers can come from anywhere in our lives
like the television, statistics, books, family, friends and even the pulpit.
They can be as simple as a “keep your
feet on the grounds” to a “you need
to be real.” They can be your own thoughts or even your words to someone
else. Words can have profound affect on us. They can chain us, hinder us, or
others; but I am telling you it does not have to be that way!
I do not settle and neither should you. These are
my words to you my readers. Do Not Settle life is meant to be more. It
is never too late. I love teaching but for me it is but a step, a moment, a
vapor in my destiny that is preparing me to be one great teacher of the word.
My time is coming my dream is alive. What is great about my analogy is that
when you remove a weed, a plant can be coaxed to recover or a new one planted.
It can grow and it can be better then what was originally planted.
So what have you given up on? What do you think is
impossible? What dream is in the back of your head still trying to shine?
Reach out! age, time, and decisions are not things
that have to stop you. God is a Father of wonders and your life is one of them.
You can always change it to shine as bright and as glory filled as you are
willing to go.
Matthew recorded my lord and teacher, Jesus saying
it best:
"Ask, and it will be given
to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone
who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it
will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give
him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then,
who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will
your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" (ESV)
So reach out, let your heart ask and seek. Take
steps in the direction your soul pulls your to.
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