From
a thought in Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small
by Mark Batterson. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)
That
is so true. It is all in your focus and
your priorities.
Mark
says, “If your goal is fame, good luck. Even if you achieve it, you’ll realize
that it’s as unfulfilling as fortune. You don’t need a bigger paycheck. You
need a bigger why. Our chief end is
to glorify God, and if your goal is to make famous the name of Jesus, good
fortune will follow you all the days of your life and right into eternity!”
Now
that is good news isn’t it?
He
then says, “In her spirit Julie Neal felt as if she was on the verge of
something big. In fact, God told her to get ready! She just wasn’t sure how or
for what. That’s when she visited her brother and sister-in-law, who had
adopted a baby from Africa. On the way home Julie’s eight-year-old daughter
said, ‘We need to adopt a baby.’ Julie quickly came up with all kinds of
excuses, but she had run out of excuses by the time she pulled into her
driveway. She knew in her spirit this was exactly what God had been getting her
ready for. A year later the Neal family adopted Caden from Ethiopia. Two years
later they adopted Cruz. Then in 2010 Julie visited the village in Ethiopia
where Cruz had been born. It’s the place where her son took his first breath
and his biological mother took her last breath. When Julie asked Cruz’s
grandparents how his mother died, they said she died because they didn’t have
anywhere to take her to get medical treatment. That’s the day a dream was
conceived in Julie’s spirit. Her first step was raising $200,000 to build a
well in memory of Cruz’s mom. Cruz actually dedicated that well, a posthumous
gift in memory of his mother. They built a school a year later. And Julie won’t
stop dreaming until a medical center is built. ‘
He
goes on, “In His grace God doesn’t always download the entire dream at one
time. It would overwhelm us. But make no mistake: His plans and purposes are
beyond what you can ask. And He wants to use you in ways you cannot imagine.
Your job isn’t to accomplish the dream. Your job is to stop making excuses and
start obeying. ‘God gives us a little piece of the plan at a time,’ Julie said.
‘And if we keep focusing on Him, it all falls into place—sometimes slowly and
painfully. But it all falls into place.’”
So
how is your why going?
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