Most of my Final Fantasy experiences start out the same way… I spend a few hours learning who I am and how to play the game, meet some new friends who join me on my journey, travel to a few different places to get a sense of the world I am trying to save, and then the story finally kicks into high gear. At this point in the story, I have two options… I can either keep hanging around the nice, safe beginner areas occupied by simple enemies and repetitive battles, or I can press forward into the unknown where the deeper challenges are found. Sure, those quiet oasis’s are nice to return to from time to time, but nothing new happens there… the game doesn’t truly start until we start fighting the battles that matter.

The truth about our calling from the Lord is that His missions for us will rarely involve chilling on our couch or hanging out in our places of deepest personal comfort. Spiritual growth only comes from the challenges that press us farther than we had planned on walking and into deeper waters than we had hoped to swim in. The Lord isn’t looking to do new things in the same old places, He is calling us out of our comfort zones and into the places where the real battles are being fought and the most meaningful victories are won. Let’s take that first uncomfortable step out of the boat and follow His voice out onto the water today.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? Isaiah 43:18-19

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