Monday... Do we too many times settle even though we know what we know?

Job said in Job 42:2 (NIRV), "I know that you can do anything. No one can keep you from doing what you plan to do." Now we who follow God, who live for Him say that we believe that but do we really, really believe it and maybe too many times settle for less than what God plans for us?

Look at these verses in Genesis 11:31-32 (NLT), "One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there. Terah lived for 205 years and died while still in Harah."

Okay, so let's look at this. God had a plan to make a great nation. I wonder if He wanted to do it through Terah. For some reason Terah left where he was living but along the way he settled instead of keeping going to where it seemed God was leading him. What would have happened if Terah hadn't settled but kept on going? We don't know but we do know that one day his son Abram got up and left and God continued His plan and Abram because the father of a great nation because he didn't settle. As Job said about God, "No one can keep you from doing what you plan to do."

I wonder what God wants to do through us? What His plan was for us but maybe we have settled for less? And He does have a plan for each of us. He really does.

Now at any point during the 205 years that Terah lived in Haran he could have picked everything and everyone up and headed to Canaan but he settled in Harah and was buried there.

Have you settled? For many of us maybe we have buried a dream that God had for us. We settled for less than what He had planned for us. And maybe on this Memorial Day we need to dig up that dead dream so it can be lived out through us.

Oh God's plan didn't stop in Haran, no Abram got up and lived out God's plan. And it was a tremendous plan that is still being lived out today.

Oh by the way, Job didn't settle and God gave him double everything that He had lost.

So let's not settle but live out God's plan for our life. Let's dig up that dead dream and let God live out His plan in and through us! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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