“… but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.”
Proverbs 11:28b
If any of us were
faced with a “good-better-best” option in life we would undoubtedly choose the “best”
option, right?
Maybe not!
Ask that same
question again but add the ingredient of cost.
I recently was in a
store to purchase a router.
This particular
router had a chart on the back of the package showing
options for each model
and listing them as:
Good, Better or Best.
The “Good” had some
options, the “Better” had more, while the “Best had the most.
And of course the
price increased with the number of available options.
Based on my specific
needs we chose the “Better”.
Transitions in our
walk with Christ as individuals and as a church also come with options.
We can choose, through
that transition, to die, to survive or to thrive.
Now, you may be
thinking – no one would “choose” to die.
But, by our choices
that is exactly what some may do.
Just as some, also by
their choices, will survive while others will thrive.
We aren’t ‘comfortable’
with this or that aspect of change and so we shrink back and die in the
process.
The wilderness was a
place of transition for the Israelites.
Some died there.
“Well”, you say, “That
was because of what God said would happen and not because of a choice that they
made.”
But I would point you
to the choice of which of the 12 spy’s reports they chose to believe.
When seasons of
transition come – not if but when – will you die,
merely survive or
will you thrive?
God’s desire is that
you thrive.
“If God be for you…”
But you must make the choice.
Will you thrive?
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