Just one step

Taking one step doesn’t feel so daunting, but I feel like its easy to shrink back from things that look challenging or beyond my skills, gifts or talents. What I’m learning though is that that is where the growth and is and the more I press into that the more I realize what I can do and who God created me to be. I believe we can do more than we think we can. We can go further than we thought we could. I’ve noticed that more often than not, I am that one who gets in my own way though.

As little kids, we think we can be anything and do anything. What happened to that? Who told us that wasn’t true? Somewhere along the way, we stop believing, or maybe we start believing we just don’t have what it takes. We start believing we aren’t who we thought we could be, or perhaps we start comparing ourselves to those around us and see ourselves as less than. I believe we are all created to do great things. My great things don’t have to be better than someone else’s great things or my talent greater than someone else’s talent. I just need to be the best me.

So each day I want to ask myself, what is that next step today? What can I do today to take me one step slower to being the person that God created me to be and to find out everything that I’m capable of. I don’t have it all figured out, but I’m learning to press in and believe that there are bigger things ahead if I will step out. I don’t want to let fear, worry or the unknown cause me to shrink back and then one day find myself wondering “what if”. I want to move forward and see what God has in store if I’ll just be brave enough to keep taking one step every day.