So like I told y’all a few posts ago, I was challenged to post once a week for a month, and this week is week four. Tuesday came around, which was my designated day, and I literally got overwhelmed. It was like the pressure was on and my mind went blank. I don’t know why. I convinced myself I had nothing to say but was surely reminded that there is always something to say. And I want to take this post to encourage you, that if there’s a commitment you’ve made, whether big or small, whether to yourself or to someone else, follow through. There’s a reward that’s attached to it and we’ll never know what it is if we always give up right in the end. Making a habit of falling short is easy; it’s comfortable and it’s paralyzing. I know that sounds extreme but it’s true. How many ideas have you not followed through on? How many races did you not push through all the way until the end? How many opportunities did you miss because you didn’t take a chance?

Just doing it, is the hard part. And my Pastor preached on this a couple of weeks ago: how many times do we walk up to the open door and get turned around by fear and doubt and worry? We get so close to the breakthrough, then turn right back around to what’s comfortable. Why put in all the work in the beginning to fall short right in the end? You’ve GOT to follow through.

Imagine if Christ didn’t follow through? What if He got to the cross and said, “nah I don’t want to do this.” What if He turned around and went the opposite way? Where would that have left us? Christ is the ultimate example of follow through. No matter who was against Him, no matter what lies were told, no matter what challenges arose, He followed through. He was sent for one purpose and because He followed through, we live.

So don’t be distracted by the stumbling blocks, by the hardships, by the rejections that come from the world. There is a greater end that is bigger than you and God is asking you to follow through. That’s where faith is strengthened; that’s where confidence is built; that’s where purpose is identified. “But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it” Matthew 7:14‬ ‭(AMP‬‬).

If you want to find the way, you got to follow through. If this is the year of the impossible . . . follow through. You know why we don’t follow through sometimes? It’s because we don’t trust ourselves. And if we don’t trust ourselves, we don’t trust God. But when has He ever not did what He said that He would? When has He ever spoken anything other than the truth? When has He ever broken a promise? NEVER. God follows through. And so maybe, you think you’re waiting on Him, but really . . . He’s waiting on you . . .

Until next time . .

“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?” - Numbers ‭23:19‬ ‭(AMP‬‬)

““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts higher than your thoughts. “For as the rain and snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth, Making it bear and sprout, And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So will My word be which goes out of My mouth; It will not return to Me void (useless, without result), Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” - Isaiah‬ ‭55:8-11‬ ‭(AMP‬‬)

“But above all, my fellow believers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but let your yes be [a truthful] yes, and your no be [a truthful] no, so that you may not fall under judgment.” - James‬ ‭5:12‬ (‭AMP‬‬)

“When you make a vow to GOD, your God, don’t put off keeping it; GOD, your God, expects you to keep it and if you don’t you’re guilty. But if you don’t make a vow in the first place, there’s no sin. If you say you’re going to do something, do it. Keep the vow you willingly vowed to GOD, your God. You promised it, so do it.” - Deuteronomy‬ ‭23:21-23‬ ‭(MSG‬)