Getting Unstuck
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
There comes a time for all of us when we feel as though we’re stuck in the same old place, the same old rut. Nothing ever changes. You’re not moving forward into the new things you’re dreaming of.
You can be in what appears to others to be the very best of circumstances – a good job, good health, good family – all the things that, in theory, constitute a good life.
Yet still you feel stuck. It’s as though there’s something else you need to be doing. I remember back toward the end of my IT consulting career, when my business partners and I had just sold our business to a public company.
It was a good pay-out, the new company offered me a very good salary, a future career path, the whole nine yards … yet still I felt stuck.
There was this opportunity to take over as the CEO and Bible teacher of the ministry of Christianityworks. But it had almost no income – just a handful supporters. It had stopped producing Bible teaching programs for radio. It was, from a human standpoint, dead in the water. Then God spoke through the Apostle Paul who, when he wrote these words, was chained to a Roman guard in a dank dungeon on death row:
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. ESV
The rest, as they say, is history. But at the point of leaving that safe, familiar, comfortable IT consulting career behind, the thing that really played on my mind was the risk I was about to take. What if I failed? What if I fell flat on my face?
It’s not that we’re stuck – we just don’t want to get out of our comfort zone. Come on! You can do all things through him who strengthens you.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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