Do You Have the Character to Go through the Next Open Door?

Before we ride the elephant to “shake that bridge,” (like the mouse thought he did in our last blog), here’s an important truth to consider: Are you ready for your next God-sized dream?

Britt Chole is brutally honest with herself in “Anonymous” about this issue:

“But there is quite a bit of room between self-promotion and utter passivity in our stewardship of God-size dreams.  At present, I am attempting to rest in alert availability.  ‘Alert’ because I am not living in denial of the dreams in my heart. ‘Available’ because God is a gentleman and I am quite comfortable waiting for him to open doors.  Truth is, I do not have enough character to walk through doors I open for myself.”

Think of how we usually receive new blessings after dealing with difficult challenges.  Christ said that “no one pours new wine into old wineskins.  If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.  No, he pours new wine into new wineskins.”  When receiving the “new wine,” we want to make sure that the wine skins (our lives or our readiness or are character) are new, too.

Sometimes we have to ask ourselves if we’re concentrating more on the destination and less on the journey.  If we’re focused on the destination then the lessons of the journey will be lost upon us.

Important questions: What lessons have you learned in the last week?  What lessons did you learn today?  Are you noticeably closer to God now than you were six months ago?  Do you have a clearer sense of your identity now than you did six months ago?

Knowing who we are and having right priorities is necessary in order to “ride the elephant.”  If where we’re going is worth anything at all, I think we need to be sure of our identity and have the character to deal with whatever comes our way.

In the next blog we’ll talk about how elephants have traditionally carried royalty on their backs.  If you know that through faith in Christ, you are royalty in God’s sight, and if you’re letting God make you more like Him every day, you probably have the character to go through the next open door in order to receive all the good things that God has for you!