Adventure Begins With One Word
"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere!
I want it more than I can tell.
And for once it might be grand
To have someone
Understand
I want so much more than they've got planned."
In 1992 when I first heard Belle sing those words in Disney's
Beauty and the Beast I was a young stay-at-home mom with two small children and no home of my own. Those words pierced my heart. Belle expressed exactly how I felt. I knew that I wanted more from life than I was experiencing. More than that. I knew that God had more for my life. But how was I to get there? How long would it take? What did I need to do?
I didn't realize at the time that I had already begun my journey of adventure. Just as Belle didn't realize that her next decision would take her on the adventure she longed for, I didn't realize that I had already turned in my ticket and the train had left the station. My adventure began with one word: YES.
Maybe you have that same longing for more, for adventure. Maybe you know in the deepest, truest part of you that God designed you for more. Maybe you are wondering how to get from where you are to where you and God want you to be. If that is you, then I want to encourage you, your ticket is in your hand. All you have to do is give it to God.
If you will give God your YES, even without knowing where that YES will take you, your adventure will begin. We get where God wants us to be YES by YES. Perhaps you gave God your YES a long time ago, but you are still yearning for more. It's time to give Him another YES!
We are at the start of a new year. It's time for a new start. It's time to turn in another YES and take the next leg of your journey. If you will say YES to God, then He will take you places you never expected to go and enable you to do things you never expected to do so that you will fulfill your unique mission on the earth. Are you ready?
Key thought: A life of adventure with God begins with one ticket: Your YES.
A scripture to consider: Philippians 3: 12-14 NIV
"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
A YES challenge: What YES do you need to give God today?
Prayer:
Father God, my heart longs for more. I believe that You are the One who has ignited this yearning. Help me to cooperate with You, to give You my YES, so that I can continue this journey of adventure and fulfill the unique mission for which You have designed me. I am all yours! Amen.
* Disney's Beauty and the Beast - lyrics by Howard Ashman * Image - Pinterest - disneybound.tumblr.com