Rubber Believers

“I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet];

 but one thing I do

 [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.”

Philippians 3:13-14

 

 

Have you ever tried to reach for something just beyond your grasp?

Sure you have.

So how do you get it?

You have to stretch!

Are there some things God has for you that seem just a bit out of your reach?

Do you think that might be on purpose?

Is God requiring you to stretch?

We might call it – stepping out of your comfort zone.

You say you don’t have comfort zones?

Look again more closely at your life.

Ask God to show you the areas where you need to be stretched.

 When you and I are stretched spiritually we grow.

It is much easier to remain where we are.

We seldom like to step beyond the familiar.

It’s safe and there is little risk of failure.

We can depend upon what we know and can do.

God is not needed to walk a path we always walk.

We know the route, we know the routine.

But then God says something like this to us: This is the way – walk in it!

At that point we can choose to say yes or no.

Say yes and there is growth ahead for you.

Say no and it is same old – same old comfortable path of least resistance.

The Bible is a collection of stories about ‘rubber people’.

People who said yes to God when saying “No!” would have been so much easier.

Are you a ‘rubber believer’?

Are you willing to be stretched by God today in ways that allow Him to get the glory as you grow?

Say it with me:

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