REACHING YOUR POTENTIAL # 7….. DON’T TAKE SHORTCUTS
Zechariah 4:10 reminds us to embrace small beginnings. There’s no quick way to succeed in life, when someone wins fast something is usually left out.
In life there are often mistakes. If you have spent time building the right foundation, should you fall, then you’ll have something solid to come back to.
Ask yourself the following question, “If I take shortcuts, what do I cut short?” If you cut out experience, you lose the process of the journey that you cannot obtain unless you actually go through something. When you can say, “I’ve been there and done that”; then you’ve actually gained something – you’ve gained experience.
If you cut out gratitude, you can easily become ungrateful. Paying the price for something causes us to be grateful for what we’ve gained.
Maturity shouldn’t be avoided, either. Maturity is a result of the journey of life and is something that cannot be obtained in an instant, it takes a variety of experience over a period of time.
Sometimes in life you can find yourself doing things that have no value other than the discipline of doing them. This too should not be cut out. Nor should exposure, if you cut out exposure you miss the big picture that is developed on the journey.
Finally, and most importantly, you cannot cut out a reliance on God. People who take shortcuts usually do it alone and don’t have a reliance on God, so when things go bad they don’t have a confidence in God because they didn’t rely on God in the first place, they didn’t let God show them how He’ll come through for them.