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The first lethal obstacle to creating your destiny is being comfortable with the life we’re living, which can leave us loathe to take a risk. If we’ve already achieved success, it no doubt took years of hard work and sacrifice. We’re not particularly in the mood to sign up for more of that when really, we just want to put up our feet and sun ourselves. Life is good enough, we think, and then we stop thinking about the bigger picture altogether. Yet somehow that nagging feeling way down deep in our hearts that we’re capable of more, that we’re made for more, rises to the surface again. We realize that God is calling us to greater things. Not wanting to pursue our destiny would be like deciding our daily commute is all there is to see in the world, when God is calling us to the scenic route, beyond the range of our ordinary life.
If you can relate to the first hazard, and can’t stand the thought of going through another period of focused achievement, you can relax. I’m not going to recommend you sell all your possessions, move your family to a far flung island and sell coconuts for Jesus. I am going to recommend that you pray, talk with your family, seek out wise counsel, and try to find a way to get started that is in balance with what you’re already doing. As we’ll cover later in this series, what you want to create is a sustainable pace. One that incorporates your life as it is now, while finding a way to carve out time and resources to make your destiny your reality. It’s about taking a calculated risk, and experiencing even greater rewards than you achieved before.
The second hazard is the cares of daily life that can weigh us down to a breaking point. Any overstressed, sleep deprived, frazzled adult can testify to that. It may be that you’re all in with the idea of pursuing your destiny. You’re committed, prepared, and turbo charge excited. But then one thing after another…after another…after another gets in the way, and then one more thing after that goes wrong. It can cause you to toss up your hands in utter frustration and focus on just getting through the day, week, month, or year. You head off on your destiny trip expecting clear sunny skies, and the next thing you know it’s raining so hard you can barely see the road. Keep going anyway. You’ll eventually drive out of the storm.
Until next time, I’ll be praying for you to find inspiration to set your sights on that next mountain to climb, and power through the cares of life enough to get moving.