What Stuck Looks Like
WARNING: Taking a bit of a turn with my content starting in 2025. Not that I'm going to talk about something outside of finding and pursuing your calling, but I am planning to write from my own life and pray that it helps you in the process.
I’ve been stuck
Maybe for 4 years now.
Trying to make changes in my life.
To see what God might do if I would stop being so lazy…
Stop being they way I am…
The way I’ve become…
I've wanted to write and make videos on the topic of 'calling', but I keep finding myself in the same place.
I have a couple of ideas
I start hating my ideas
I feel like a fraud,
I get wrapped up in how to become better
Watching and reading
BUT NEVER DOING
Over and over and over again.
I decided I needed to make a change!
To BREAK THIS CYCLE
I mean, come on!
IT IS FOR FREEDOM CHRIST HAS SET US FREE!
And we’ve got work to do.
At the end of 2024, I joined a men’s group - it’s more of a 40-day challenge
Every day we are digging deep
Every day we are holding each other accountable
Every day I’m participating
Every day I’m doing exercises (one day 50 pushups - ARE YOU KIDDING ME??, next day squats, and so on)
Believe you me - it’s killing me.
Ask me if I care…
Nope.
I’m feeling tired and fed up of staying the same.
And Jesus wants more of me, and that doesn’t mean packing on a few more pounds.
Will this be another “Annual Before Photo” from the Babylon Bee for me?
I pray that the answer is NO…
So why am I doing this?
It’s December (well, it was anyway).
And like last December, I made some commitments to myself.
Changes I wanted to make…
Things I wanted to accomplish…
And as I’m doing it again this year, I said to myself,
“You are the definition of insanity.”
Jay… you keep doing the same things over and over…
Expecting different results…
But in reality…
You get the same… The same results.
Only another year has gone by…
I’ve been pushing lately to do hard things.
Things I don’t want to do but would be better if they were done.
When that voice speaks - “You should do the dishes. Barb, would be grateful.”
And that other voice goes - “I hate doing dishes.”
I do them…
Try it for yourself. And let me know what you think.
Then I read about this group that was starting - I knew the guys running it and I knew it would be more of the same.
Pushing me where I least wanted to be pushed…
And asking me the hard questions…
So I joined.
And it’s been hard,
And awful,
And at times, it feels impossible for a guy like me (A couch potato who’s about 100 lbs. overweight and rarely exercises)
But I feel differently about this.
When I beat up on myself and say I’m FAT and WEAK.
They remind me that I’m on a journey.
When others are choosing to stay the same, you’re choosing to be different.
When I’m answering a tough question about my life from our daily devotional.
They encourage me…
They exhort me to change or dig into it deeper…
They challenge my weak answers - the ones that show I’m hiding
I’m not saying you’ve gotta join a group like I joined.
That’s not the point.
What I’m saying is that when life seems to be on auto-repeat
Or worse yet, nothing seems to be changing.
It’s time to look elsewhere.
To do something else.
And do it with some folks looking to chase after the same things you’re chasing.
And then thank God for rousing your spirit to do so!
LET’S GO… He’s coming soon.
Feel free to reply
In His Name,
Jay