Grinding your way to Greatness
I’ve been listening to Juanita Bynum’s series on Working with Warfare and it has been one of the best gifts God could have ever given me for this season. I need everything she is teaching in this series. She talks a lot about grinding your way to greatness. The dictionary defines grinding as (of a state) oppressive, tedious, and seemingly without end; to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as in a mill or with the teeth).
To grind is to stay focused on whatever call God has given us even tough sometimes it looks like there is no end to the process. When we are grinding we have to set boundaries with friends and family. We cannot get to the greatness God has ordained for us with distractions from others. I am currently working on several projects and now that I am retired my children would contact me at anytime. I had to set boundaries with them on when I would be available to talk so that I am not interrupted. When boundaries are set it takes away the frustration of getting interrupted and losing a thought that could have summed up an important project.
Grinding requires discipline, there are a lot of activities and things that come up that we would love to do with our friends but we cannot do all those things and get the task before us competed. We have to be disciplined to the call. God does require us to be balanced so we do need to have time to spend with family and friends. We also may have to put our phone on mute so that we are not disturbed. When God is speaking with us and we are working with Him we want to give Him all of your undivided attention.
It is easy to take for granted some of the jobs that God has given us because it does not seem like a job that is working for Him. But every job that we receive is an assignment from God and He expects us to grind our way to the greatness He has put on the inside of us. Amen!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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