Posts Tagged: complacency

Complacency and Indecision

Complacency and indecision is something that can paralyze you.  It puts you in a prison in your own life.  There are many reasons as to why a person may be complacent or do not want to make a decision.  One of the main reasons is fear.  Fear can hold you back in life.  Sometimes this fear is based on our past experiences and other times it may because of what other people may say or think.  I have heard it said that fear stands for False Evidence Appearing Real.  And Satan will try to use fear to hold us back from what God has called us to do.  Because he knows the people we are going to impact and the life change that is going to happen because we stepped into something God has called us to.

There are times that God is calling us to wait on Him but many times God is asking us to step out in faith. And too often we will use our fear as an excuse of us not stepping out in faith.  We will mask it as we are waiting on God.  When in reality God could be like, “would you just do this?  I have great things in store for you.  And if you could only see the exciting journey I have for you if you would take this first step.”  Many times our fear will lead us to indecision and complacency.   Complacency and indecision kills growth.  It stunts the growth God may have in store for us.

God gave us the power to step past our fear and walk into victory and the exciting journey He has for us.  “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7.  Once we step past our fears there is an excitement and freedom that comes with it.  How is fear holding you back?  What is one thing you wish you would have done a year from today?  

 

 

Dreams

Last week my Pastor was preaching on the woman at the well (John 4:1-18).  He was talking about her history and where she was at that point in her life.  This woman was ridiculed by people in her community.  Because of this she would go to the well when no one else was there.

One thing that my Pastor brought up was this woman may have quit dreaming and thinking that her future could be better than what it was.  But one day Jesus met her at the well and changed her life.  My Pastor then asked us “did you quit dreaming.”  This question got me thinking.  I realized in the last couple years I somewhat quit dreaming. And when I did dream I would think of a reason why it wouldn’t work.  I also had become complacent in my life especially professionally.  I put my own ceiling on my career and my life.  But by doing this I put limits of myself and on God.

But with some changes in the last couple, this has caused me to start dreaming again.  And  this week, I was challenged to reflect over the last couple years and where my mindset was at that time.  This reflection has made to start dreaming with limits because I serve a God who is limitless.  I am no longer going to look at my dreams through the lens of my past failures and hurts.  I am excited to dream again and continue making my dreams come true.

What dreams are you not pursuing because of your past, your current circumstances or the limits you put on yourself?  So start dreaming, let the Father run with your dreams and take you to places you never imagined.