I used to imagine myself rounding the track, handing the baton off to Flo Jo (Florence Griffith-Joyner) herself and catching my breathe while she ran the last leg of the 4 by 400 in the Olympics. In my memory I couldn’t hear the sound of the crowd over my own excitement of just being on this team and winning the gold medal (of course). It was a beautiful reoccurring desire BUT I never did the work that it takes to make the Olympic team.
In fact, all of you would think it crazy if I were to become jealous and to complain about this seasons Olympic hopefuls. They work for it, I don’t, so there’s no reason to hate (right?). I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m not completely lazy. After all I ran track in high school and in college, so I trained but to have what they have requires a higher level of commitment and the reward is also greater.
Now, what about the faith? Have you ever looked at a dynamic man or woman of God and wished that you could be as close to God as they seem to be. Well, there are two things to consider
- 1) you never really know what is going on until you walk in another man’s shoes and
- 2) God is no respecter of person, you have as much as you choose to have from God but you have to “put the time in” so to speak. This is the one that we are going to focus on.
Just like athletes train, the sold out woman of God trains too and her success is measured by the mess she is willing to let go of in order get closer to the Creator. The sold out man of God strengthens himself and builds muscle with every old habit that he walks away from in exchange for something more. They are lifting weights every time they choose to walk in wisdom instead of the old behaviors that were learned from a messed up pass. They condition themselves as they consume Word & tattoo it on the canvas of their mind. With every decision they are reshaping their spiritual selves into something lean and beautiful with God as the master trainer.
Now I ask you, if you do the work, won’t you reap the reward? Grown up dreams, require growing pains but it is only the pain of conditioning. Is it worth it to you?
MizJAI . . . willing to do the work in order to live the dream
