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Good morning Champion, breakfast is served
=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 mercy 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, and not just when he had a realization.
Whenever you have a realization about something make sure you quickly add a
resolution to it or things will most likely not ever change. Like the
wayward son, we all ever need to be having realizations caused by the
prompting of God's Spirit, then we need to be 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 that desired change. As you do, it
is then that 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 fattened calf 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
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