Good morning Champion. Here’s breakfast.
Realization is not enough to change a situation!
Luke 15: 17 – 18 (NKJV)
But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
This is from the account of the wayward Son found in Luke 15 where Jesus teaches a 3 fold parable concerning lost things. It is a great story of a young man who made some stupid mistakes but then has the sense and courage to turn it all around.
The NIV uses different wording. It says, “when He came to His senses,” and that is something that we all do every now and then right? We can all lose the way sometimes in one way or another but then a faithful God taps us on the shoulder with His finger of goodness and lets us see that what we have is not what we really want and we have a realization (encounter with truth or reality). What is important is what we do next?
A realization on its own will not achieve the changes that we need. We need to add other things to it like the wayward son did. The next thing we read is that he determined, “I will arise and return”, and it was at this point the situation began to change for the better. Things only improved when He made a resolution.
Whenever you have a realization about something make sure you quickly add a resolution to it or things will most likely not change.
Like the wayward son, we all ever need to be having realizations by the prompting of God, then resolving what we will do about those realizations, and then have the courage to take the first step towards what needs to happen to produce change. As you do, your realizations will become realities. If the son would have settled for realizations alone he would have died eating pig food when he could have been eating beef at a homecoming dinner!
Goals are dreams with a date or moment of movement attached to them. If you just dream, little happens, but if you attach deadlines and dates to them they begin to live!
Remember good intentions really do not profit anyone, but lived- out ones do!
Have a great day
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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