From Frustration Into Realization
November 9th
“giving these instructions to the people: “When you see the Levitical priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God, move out from your positions and follow them. Since you have never traveled this way before, they will guide you. Stay about half a mile behind them, keeping a clear distance between you and the Ark. Make sure you don’t come any closer.” Then Joshua told the people, “Purify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among you.”
If you are like me, you find yourself full of ambition and dreams. But pursuing these dreams can often be quite frustrating. It feels at times like we are going uphill, the wrong way, during a mudslide.
Lofty targets are not wrong. God had told this band of desert wanderers, born of slaves, that they would conquer a new land full of fierce warriors. That is ambition!
So how do we accomplish our own dreams?
How do we move past frustration and into realization?
Joshua knew the key here, you follow the Ark.
The Ark is where God himself sat, it is where his presence rested. When walking into impossibility, the presence of God must go first.
We are not leaders of ambition, we are carriers of ambition.
To succeed, ask and watch where God himself is going, and follow. Follow his presence, and tomorrow he will do the most wonderful things in your life and through your actions.
Challenge
Look at your calendar, your goals, your plans. Are they yours or God’s? Are you following him or yourself.
Abandon all plans that are you and only you, and relentlessly pursue those which are following after God. This does not mean that we are all to become pastors. It means that God has created you to be something, and he has already made the way for it to happen — you are simply required to walk it. It may be business, or teaching, or healthcare, or politics.
We are often afraid to truly follow his presence because it might land us as missionaries in Africa. But I challenge that thinking with this thought — If God has put before you the ambition to conquer a land of business or politics, then following him is the only way to realize your full potential. It is the best way to be truly yourself and find complete joy.
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