Crisis

I was thinking about some of the greatest achievements that I have had in my life today.  The thing about most of the things that I have achieved in life is that they aren’t really great things.  They are really just things that I endured in life.  In fact I started to think about all of the great men and women in history, how their stories are not stories of good times but of crisis.  The thing that is amazing about history is that you are not remembered by what you achieved but by what you endured.

Crisis is a thing most of us try to avoid like the plague.  When crisis comes our way we run as fast as we can go.  The reality is that crisis is the fuel that propels change, growth and success in our life.  Crisis don’t come in our lives to destroy our faith but to expose it. Instead of running from crisis, we should run to it.  Often times our crisis is the opportunity we have been looking for in life, we just have to endure it.  We should embrace it as an opportunity for each one of us to achieve the Greater Things that God has is store for you and I.  It is the way we grow our faith and trust in God.  In our crisis we truly find out if we have faith.  See a faith that is tested by crisis is a faith that can be trusted. By running from the crisis, we are saying that we don’t trust God but are looking at our own ability.  In and of ourselves we will always fail, but with God we can do Greater Things.

What crisis are you currently facing?

• What do you need to run to instead of from to achieve victory in your life?

• Who are you trusting in, yourself or God?