Right now, today, in this exact stage and season of your life, God is preparing you for what is next. He is using all that is to make what currently is not. That which currently is not working, that which currently is not good, that which currently is not okay, is being used by the Almighty to become something greater for your future. Nothing is wasted in God’s mighty and capable hands. The heat refines you. The pull back propels you. The chiseling away sets you free. The resistance strengthens you. The storm cleanses you. He takes all the crap and declares it as perfect fertilizer in your life to make you grow bigger, faster, stronger. All of this because he says your future is in his hands and you’ve been chosen for something good. You can’t stay the same and step into what he has available for you. You will miss his greatest plans for your life if you stay right here. And you would … you would continually opt for the comfort of what is over the fear in the unknown. So God swoops in with that heat, with that chisel, with that resistance, that storm, and that crap and says ‘okay sweet girl, my plans are too good for you to just let you stay here.’ And right about then, what you’ve been counting on fails. What you’ve been working on stops working. What you had planned falls apart. The temptation here is to grow bitter. To shrink back into the darkness of disappointment and depression. To start playing little because big things never work for you. But what if this isn’t working because it’s actually too small? What if God says this isn’t it because I have something so much bigger for your future and this little thing you got your hopes up over would only be a stumbling block on the way to what I have planned for you. This isn’t it. No, God is working on so much more. Don’t settle here. Don’t stay here. Don’t get comfortable here and declare this as your homestead. You’re just passing through sister, loosen your grip. You’re a traveler on this journey and God is taking you to a destination you have not yet seen. Don’t get distracted along the way and forfeit what he has available for you. It’s kindof like taking the kids to Disney World, but getting caught up in the souvenirs at the gas station along the way. There’s so much more available on down the road, just keep going. This is just a gas station stop. This is the convenience store. And honey, it may be convenient, but this is no where near all there is for you. Won’t you keep going? Won’t you dare to get back on the road and leave behind the convenience of what you found along the way to move on to what is planned for you? Galatians 6:9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” This isn’t it. You haven’t arrived. This is not your final resting place. You have not yet seen the harvest God has planned for you on the other side of this work. But you will never see it if you keep giving up. I know it’s exhausting fighting through this, but if you keep going you will step into a season of harvest you can’t even contain. Do you believe that? Do you believe God has a harvest available for you on the other side of this work? Do you believe he is leading you somewhere and your job is to keep going and not stop? Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”