CAUTION FLAMMABLE: EXCUSES, COMPLAINING, SELFISHNESS, FEAR, AND DOUBT
Excuses, complaining, selfishness, fear and doubt spread like wild fires. If you have ever been on a trip of some kind with more than yourself you know that once one person starts doing it, it’s like a sickness, everyone and their mother start making excuses, complaining, being selfish and surrendering to fear and doubt. That same wild fire, sickness spreads even when we are not on a trip. It happens all the time, everyday. We speak the language of excuse. We live off of complaints, and being selfish. We also tend to dwell in fear and doubt. When we start to make a habit of such things it becomes our environment, and we start to ignore everything that has to do with anything different, including the call that God has on our lives.
Last week sometime I heard one of Brian Houston’s podcast, the lead pastor at Hillsong Church. He said, “If you are in the place of excuses you will have every reason to turn back in the heat of the battle.” The heat of the battle that he is talking about is the call that God has on our lives and the path we take to reach it. We get so caught up on the ‘CAUTION FLAMMABLES’ that we loose sight. We totally miss the mark. The mark is the high calling, the dream, not drawing back into the past, seeing in Christ Jesus, understanding that there is going to be a price, and not making excuses. We have every reason in the book to miss the mark. What is it going to take for us not to miss what God has for us?!
All I know is that often times God gives us opportunities and they turn into our excuses. Brian said, “Own your heart!” Don’t give in to excuses, complaints, yourself, fear or doubt! We all have something in common, and that is the plan God has for us! Where are you standing in words of the mark?