God hasn’t changed His mind

I read a story about a young man who dreamed of playing professional football. In high school he was a star player and won all kinds of awards. He came from a very small town where everybody knee w him. All the children looked up to him, and wanted to be like him; a local hero. But most of the coaches thought he was too small to play in the college. All the major universities turned him down. He ended up at a junior college and took a job at a pizza restaurant. He quit playing football.

One night he was delivering a pizza and a ten year old boy answered the door. When this boy saw the young man, his eyes grew so big. The boy was star struck. He couldn't believe this was the same person he’d watched play at the local high school, the same athlete who had thrilled the crowd so many times. After a second or two, the boy’s father walked up and the young man gave the pizza the little boy was very confused. He looked up at his father. He looked at the young man and said very innocently, “what are you doing delivering pizzas?”

The words from a ten year old boy lit a new fire on the inside for the young man. After work that night he went to the gym and started training. The summer he trained harder than he had ever trained before. He gained seventy pounds, and became bigger, stronger, quicker and faster.

That fall, he tried out at a major university that had accepted him as a student. He’d always wanted to play there. He made the team and kept working until he also became their star player. After college, he was drafted in the first round to play professional football. Today, he is a star in the NFL living out his dream. But he said, “It would have never happened if that ten year old boy hadn't asked me, ‘What are you doing selling pizzas?’

My question for you today is: “What are you doing taking the easy way out?” have you settled somewhere way beneath what you know God has put in you? Have you given up on a dream, or let go of a promise, because it didn't happen the first time?

The good news is just because you gave up a dream doesn't mean God gave up. You may have changed your mind but God didn't

change His mind. He still has a victorious plan in front of you. Why don’t you get in agreement with Him.

You don’t have to quit where you are now in order to get to where you need to be, stay where you are, but prepare for where God has planned for you to be. Build your muscles, your mind, your spirit, your influence, you perseverance, your patience, your determination to live out your dream.

Excerpts from my latest book coming soon…