As you look at the world, are you living a what if life? Are you so concerned about what is going on that you have to have everything in order before you do anything? What are you waiting on? If you wait until every traffic light is green before you leave your house then you will never leave your home.
The same goes for life, if you are waiting for your perfect moment then you will never do anything great. Right now is always the perfect moment because it is the only time you can live in. You can’t live in the past and you can’t live in the future. You can only live right now in this very moment.
I would rather go through life moving forward on faith and failing then waiting on everything and doing nothing. When you come up on your deathbed you are going to say one of two things. You either will say what if I would have or you will say what an adventure I have had.
The choice is yours to make. Don’t live in a world where you end up with many what if regrets. They will eat you alive. Yes moving forward and failing can hurt too but the hurt you get from doing nothing is always worse. Pain is only temporary but what if regrets can last a lifetime.
If you move forward what is the worst that can happen? Maybe a bankruptcy? Maybe losing friendships because they don’t believe in you? Maybe losing things? No matter what, the loss of your inspiration is way worse than the loss of anything material.
The longer you stay put and do nothing the easier it will be to keep doing it. It becomes a never-ending cycle. This cycle will go on until the day you meet the Lord. I just do not believe that this is the life God has in mind for you and me. I believe that we are supposed to go out and conquer many things including ourselves.
It is when we really know who we are that we can move forward. Many people will end up in a world of what ifs because they just do not know who they really are. Yes on the surface they know who they are but deep down they don’t know who or what they stand for because society has brainwashed them into believing that we should be a certain way but God says differently.
So are you going to listen to society or are you going to move forward where God is leading you? Only you can decide that. I hear many people say they just don’t know where God is leading them. I think that is a cop-out. I think most people know but they are just too scared to admit it. The fear is stronger than their desire to go into the unknown but many times God has to lead us into the unknown before we can go to the next level. Sometimes the unknown is the next level!
Maybe you don’t know where he is leading you ultimately but you do know where he is leading your next step The key is to take the next step. God will never take you to your ultimate purpose until he can trust you in your next step. Just step out on faith and trust that God is leading you in the right direction.
Will you fall? Of course you will because we all will but failing while doing what we believe is right is way better than sitting and doing nothing when we know we should move forward.
All through my life I have lived in a spontaneous world where I would just go for it before I really looked into it. Sometimes this attitude has backfired on me and other times it shot me to a new level. It really doesn’t matter how many times I fail when I just move forward because I’d rather have many “oh well that’s life” moments than to have many “what if’s” in life moments. Don’t go to your deathbed with many what if regrets! Go to your deathbed saying WOW, what an adventure I have had!
Ask God to give you the courage to move forward. Ask him to give you the wisdom to know when he is leading you. Ask him to give you patience with yourself when you move forward and fail. Ask him to give you the knowledge to be able to take the next step.
Be Inspired Or Be Left Behind!
Chris Benton