I don't know about everyone else, but it just seems as if a lot is going on. The pressures of everyday life and the required daily press to just complete even the simplest of goals while maintaining any sense of sanity just seems unrealistic at times. Even regrets of not doing things right the first time or procrastinating and not starting at all become a weight as the end of the year approaches.
Yet, as I reflected this morning, I realized that none of what God intended for me to do or have would not be attainable if I first didn't believe it and if I didn't press in. Certainly, none of it would get done if I didn't think that God designed me to do it. For those of you who feel as if you have given it your last push and you are not going anywhere, I urge you to kick in your second wind factor.
If you didn't run track, I'll explain that your second wind takes place at the toughest place in the race. I can recall running the 400m and on the curve is when the second win factor is needed. It is in that place where the training that you endured, your own physical shape and even your ability to breathe in controlled patterns determine if you will be positioned to win or complete the race at all. This is also the point where the very goal that you desire is right in front of you. Yet, you are so aware of everything that you are against. Even running in your own lane, you have a panaoramic vision of everything and everyone else. This is also the same time where everything around you may nudge you to give up.
Yet, when you tap within to the very strength that you didn't know you had inside of you, the second wind factor will be waiting. You will feel empowered to step it up. The guilt of slacking and procrastinating can be erased when you make the decision to start right where you are and look at your issue dead in the face and say "You will not win!" At this point, you will desire to press in and "go hard". In the midst of your financial struggles, job burnout, or whatever you are facing, you probably walked past your second wind factor without a second thought.
Just take even a moment today and make some adjustments. You did not get this far in 2010, surviving it all just to give up or watch your life go by. Even at that crazy job, use your lunch hour to find a quiet place to write down the very things that you desire along with every obstacles you face and surrender them unto God. For within you, you were born with the very thing that you need to accomplish the task. You were created to walk it out and live to tell about it. You were created to complete the race of your very own destiny. Don't give up now! Breathe in and press on!
Be blessed!
Gina
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