Resignation vs Preparation - A Lesson In Perspective
It was the end of the year and one of the old struggles in my business had reared it's ugly head again.
It was a struggle that I seemed to come up against every year and usually I would feel really heavy in my spirit...and if I am honest, the heaviness would start to turn to feelings of desperation.
And when you are working from a spirit of desperation it gets REALLY hard to hear the comforting word of God over your own frantic mind.
But this year something different had happened.
After months of being SUPER intentional about learning to lean on God...
And multiple opportunities to practice walking that out...
I was able to recognize that my normal default of falling into desperation had been replaced by something different.
A new perspective for the work that God was doing in me.
See, as these struggles that seemed to come up every year popped up yet again, and my brain headed towards the default of desperation (and if I'm honest a total resignation to the situation) I was being reminded of God's truth in the midst of it!
And standing on that truth, I was calling out the lies of what I had previously been resigning myself to:
"Your just not good enough to make this work!"
NOPE! - "I am MORE than a conquerer in Christ" (Romans 8:37) - I don't do this in my own strength!
"Here you are again, why don't you just give up!"
NOPE! - "I can do all things THROUGH CHRIST" (Philippians 4:13) - No matter how hard things get, God is my provider and strength and I can endure with Him!
"Clearly God doesn't hear you so stop praying about it and let that dream go!"
NOPE! -"being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" Philippians 1:6 - God's plans for my life will be completed!
This was a very different response than how I had handled things in the past...and as I looked through old journal entries I was really able to see it!
But what I noticed even more was that I was having a perspective shift.
God is working out something new in my life. He is calling me into more in this next season and my old way of looking at things needed to change!
Not only were they not truth...they were keeping me stuck!
God is calling me into so much more this next year. And instead of sitting in a place of desperation and feeling resigned to my circumstances, I want to have a spirit of PREPARATION for the more He is calling me into!
I am not the same woman I was last year and my responses to my struggles are NOT the same as they once were.
God is calling me into the NEW and my posture is one of preparation!
And with that new mindset, I made new commitments to myself. Ones that won't let me stay stuck but will keep me excited, prepared and EXPECTANT for what God is calling me to.
It's these small lessons that we take for granite but have the most profound impact on our lives.