05/21/2025
But what about them, Lord? Why aren’t you doing anything about them? Why do I need to do this but they are continuing in their things and it doesn’t feel like you are intervening?
How often as Christians do we say or feel this? We hear God asking something of us. We know it deep within yet we see others and we turn our eyes towards them instead of on our ourselves. Deep down, we know that God is asking us to walk a different route. To change something in our life. Sometimes that requires us to get way out of our comfort zone. It is easier to point fingers to the other person instead of getting uncomfortable and real with ourselves.
In John 21 …Jesus was talking to Peter about his future. He was telling Peter to go feed his sheep.. But instead of Peter, keeping the focus on himself he looked at John and asked Jesus what about him? Jesus answered by asking Peter what that is to him on what John’s life will hold?
This scripture is so eye-opening and a testimony of where our focus really needs to be.
God calls us to work on ourselves, not to point fingers towards the other person and ask why they aren’t doing what they should be doing. It is easy to play the blame game. But it is much harder to face responsibility and take action to what God is asking of us. So many times we say well I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing. When the reality is that when we face truth and really look deep inside, God has already given us that discernment. Are we willing to receive it?
Sometimes it is easier to stay in doubt and say we don’t know then to face reality and know that God is asking this uncomfortable thing of us …something that will get us out of our comfort zone and will not always be a fun process. If we stay in our comfort zone, we will never grow to the full potential God has called us to go.
Not one of his disciples stayed in their comfort zone. They all had to get real honest and decide where they stand. They had to intentionally make the choice to do the things, Jesus called them to do. They still had a choice. Jesus was not going to force them to do anything . The same way he will not force you and I to do anything. But it is up to you, you have a choice.
How much of your true potential do you want to live out? Do you want to stay in the comfort, the familiar or do you want to dig deep and get real honest with God and with yourself and truly search for what God is asking you to do? Where God is asking you to go, what steps is he directing you towards? Are you willing to face that?
No one else can fulfill your potential.
When you get to heaven, do you want to look back and see the progress you made by going after your potential or do you want to look back and see how much you stayed in your comfort zone and how many lives could have been saved if only you would have taken that step of faith?
