The Right Way

You all already know that I’m a political junkie. I love to keep track of what’s going on in our American government. Lately, I have been so disgusted, disappointed, and frustrated with our elected officials.

Right now America is suffering through one of the worst recessions in our history. Our greedy behavior got us into a huge mess, and we are all hurting from the results. Now our elected officials have the task of navigating our country out of this debacle.

They know the solutions needed to help us right ourselves, but our leaders cannot seem to make the hard decisions. They are so afraid of the possibility of hurting their chances of staying in office that they are refusing to implement correct change.

Although we all can point fingers and analyze their behavior, some of us Christians act the same way. We know that some of our own behavior has gotten us into some messes. We see that our lives are not lining up with the plan that God has ordained for us. Yet we continue on in our ways because we see God’s way as too hard or asking too much from us.

So many lives are mired in mediocrity because people don’t want to choose to embark on the difficult journey…even though they know the difficult way is the right way!

Remember the phrase: No pain, no gain? A lot of us have not gained anything in life because we refuse to go through the temporary pain of leaving our comfort zones to enter into unfamiliar territory.

God has so many great things that He wants to impart to us! He’s just waiting on us to take the step in His direction.

Abraham had to leave his family. Moses had to face Pharaoh. David stared down a giant. Esther risked her life to see the king. Peter stepped out of the boat.

All of these people chose to do the hard thing and were blessed because of it. What blessing is waiting on you? Come on, take that step. Make the choice to do the hard thing and watch what God does for you.

Verse of the Day: Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Proverbs 22:29