Do you ever feel like you are living on the brink of something new? Sometimes you live in the hope that things are going to change – that breakthrough you have been holding out for is just one more day away…
Living in the land of ‘almost‘ can be demoralising, or simply exhausting! Trying to convince yourself to keep going when things get tough is pretty consuming. I remember a time when I was really struggling to get past my current situation. I had no job, was living on the kindness of friends, my car was broken into and I had no money to repair the broken window. But the strangest thing happened… I began to laugh. In that moment, I realised that the only thing I could control was my reaction to what life had thrown at me.
Living in that place of ‘almost’ (almost employed, almost independent, almost OK), I was extremely emotional and tired but I learnt a lesson that has helped me get through so much more of life.
When you are living in ‘almost’, focus on the ‘ALWAYS’.
1. There will ALWAYS be another day
The truth is, you will still be breathing tomorrow. Even if you have messed up all your chances today, tomorrow will be there. You will have another opportunity. You will be more experienced than before.
2. There will ALWAYS be more
Your ‘be-all-and-end-all” – that thing you are holding out for – once you get it, there will be more. There will never be a point in our lives where we can honestly sit back and say we have ‘made it’. There will always be room to grow. There will ALWAYS be room for improvement. There will ALWAYS be something greater that you are called to.
3. There will ALWAYS be hope
The possibility for great things to happen will never be absent in your life. You may not see it all the time, but there will ALWAYS be the probability of that random act of kindness, or that phone call that could change everything. If you look for hope, you will find it.
The problem with living in the ‘almost season’ is that you can end up ‘almost living’. Waiting for a specific opportunity to come around cuts you off from possibilities you can’t foresee. Focussing on what ALWAYS has and ALWAYS will be not only gives you a way bigger perspective, but opens you up to the unthinkable.
In the Bible it says “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no human mind has conceived the things that God has prepared”. If what you are waiting for is already clearly thought out, you can guarantee that you are missing something. We are created to live lives that go beyond human understanding. There will ALWAYS be a new day, there will ALWAYS be more and there will ALWAYS be hope. But these truths are rooted in the biggest ALWAYS there will ever be. God will ALWAYS be available to you.
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