EMBRACE YOUR ASSIGNMENT

Life is definitely a journey. Sometimes the things you often set out to do is not necessarily what God had intended for you. And although many of us may have taken similar paths, our testimony's are never quite the same because of the experiences we've encountered, which allows us to tell our version of the story in a way that is only remarkable to where we've come from. This is why we must never compare ourselves or wish to walk in another person's shoes without understanding the things that they've experienced. Because when they stumble during their course, instead of recognizing their journey we become critical not realizing that their process is the unfinished product that is still in the making.

What's inside of you is greater than what you see around you. Your purpose has already been spoken over your life, and your task is to execute the thing that already exists in you. But here's the delay, many of us are not able to identify with what we're supposed to be doing, so we end up taking a detour from our assignment. Sure, life's circumstances and sometimes the influences of our environment can cause us to lose sight and take us off course. However we can't sit back and blame our situation on those things that caused our setback. At the end, there's an individual accountability that will question what we've done and was supposed to do with what was given.

Your purpose is driven by the passion that fuels your ability into wanting to achieve that desired goal. Think about it, when you were a child and someone asked you what you wanted to become in life, you probably list a plethora of things. Now in the adults mind they would say to themselves that it's not possible to be so many things at once. But with assurance they'd say "you can be anything you want to be."

Looking at life from the child's perspective, you didn't realize the process it takes to become these things. Instead what you saw in a spiritual sense is the many talents you possessed and wanted to fulfill. Many of us are gifted with multiple talents while there are those that have a few or just one. Either way, it is what we do with the talent that determines what we become. Learn how to embrace the gift that sets you apart from others because it is only significant to your journey. We must do away with the one size fit all mentality as the world is large enough for us to showcase our individual trait and creativity. Whatever it is that you need it's already in your reach. Just be sure that it's within your destiny.

THE PROCESS

You've ever driven on a road where it seems like it'll take miles and miles before your exit appears? As you continue enroute to your destination you start seeing signs indicating that the next exist is up ahead, but not yours. Slowly cars begin to merge quickly preparing to get off their stop. Inside you wish that it was your turn, and that you had been the other driver getting closer to your arrival. While on your journey traffic suddenly begins to slow down. There seems to be something going on up ahead but it's unclear from your distance. Frustrated with having to now sit in traffic prompts you into looking around for the nearest exit to get off. Once you get closer to that exit not knowing what you'll face up ahead, you merge onto an unfamiliar path where the road is no longer straight but is filled with bends and curves. After finally reaching the intersection it never appeared to you that now your travel time may take longer than expected because you came off of the road that was designed to carry you to your destination.

You've slowed down your pace. Looking around helplessly in search of someone to point you back to the right direction. Finally you see someone walking ahead as if they know where they're going, only to find out that their not familiar with their surroundings. Your aggravation sets in and you begin to wonder how is it that they're not familiar with the area, yet their walking around and not seem bothered by the path that their taking. That's because some folks we meet along the way may have come to a place of contentment. Where despite the fact that they're treading upon unfamiliar territory they've adapted to a lifestyle that is uncommon to your own.

When we hasten our steps without waiting on God to deliver us through our current situation, we end up allowing our impatience to drive our emotions to a whole other level. We suddenly become dissatisfied, and start thinking of things of old while celebrating in this woe is me fiasco. Never learning to be content with our present environment. Everything that we were once familiar with and had no problems with before, suddenly becomes a problem. Don't get me wrong, sometimes a little change is good. But you have to pay attention to the signs that exist to determine whether or not you're making the right turn.

Waiting, for many of us is a process we try so hard to avoid as we're constantly in search of a quick fix to our problems. But do you know that the more we microwave our process, is the less we pay attention to the time as well as the transformation it takes in order to complete our course? Depending on the circumstance you find yourself in, learn how to wait until your exit comes near, because it is during your process where it will shape your patience and character. Even if it means that you move two feet ahead as the traffic slowly clears, and break quickly remembering that someone else's process is ahead of yours.

If you had remain on the original road to your destiny, what you would've seen as you got closer and closer to the thing that caused the back up of traffic was the two cars that collided with one another which has now ended their process. Due to the rate of their speed trying to hurry up their travel time, they left behind the remains of what once was their vehicle used to escort them through their journey. It is uncertain however if they had finished their course or if they had died with their purpose unfulfilled. You now proceed with caution as you come to realize that you are still on the road to pursuing your purpose and can't afford to hinder the process. Until you hear the voice of the navigator letting you know that your destination is up ahead.

THE LEVEE IS BROKEN

Every time I try to move forward it seems like I get pushed 10 feet backwards. Sounds familiar? Ok maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but I'm sure we've all said this one time or another in our lives. There is a season that we go through where it seems as though all hell has broken loose and the flood gates have opened and we're drowning....