Pressure

“You can’t skip experiences, the experiences will be will be what they will be…It’s just what God does”

 

It’s just what God does? If someone had told me a year ago that pain, pressure, persistence were a part of my journey I would have flat out laughed at them. You see I have always been the person that does not handle stress well (if you are close to me in life you call me dramatic daily). I overanalyze everything to the point where it makes me doubt myself and who God is. However I have been meditating on this thought “What if pressure creates purpose?” Somebody just skimmed over this so I am going to repeat it 

What if pressure created purpose?

When God takes us through the journey, different ingredients create ultimate success. If you stay frustrated with the process while creating your masterpiece you begin to miss the need to be present. How Creseida? How am I missing it? Because homeboy and homegirl you have the chance to let your situation speak life into someone else. 

Truth be told I do not want anyone I interact with to ever have to feel my pain. Each disaster that threatened to rip me apart, but didn’t succeed stretched me. If you’re focused on the strain the pain brought know that you’re ignoring the lesson that came with it too. 

Allow the thought of being uncomfortable stretch you into a new place a place that solely and totally depends on who Christ is in your life. The lesson may come through struggle, but after the struggle comes strength.

If you are afraid that you won’t be any good at this you are not alone. Because I hate feeling of losing control of what happens from here. I have a feeling that if I could get past this fear I could be incredible. I could be everything God created me to be.

The journey is brighter from here trust me when I say it, but if you dread every moment that this life has to offer you will miss out on all the great things. 

So what’s your biggest fear? That it won’t work? So what? We spend hours convincing ourselves why we shouldn’t let go. Constantly telling ourselves the reasons we should abandon what feels so right instead of just feeling. If our biggest fear is dismissal or failure how will we ever expose the force of our potential. We bring halfhearted hopes into the pursuit of our dreams then become baffled when they’re never fully realized. The only way to get change is to give more than required.  Don't let the pressure keep you down. 

Dear God,

If this journey of life I'm on doesn't lead me to you then I don't want to be on it. Help me to realize that there is potential in the pressure that comes on this journey. 

Signed, 

Forever Yours