Dare You To Move

I fall in love with ideas.

Recently, I've been loving this analogy of tension that my friend laid out for me. He explained it like we should always be in a state of tension in one way or another. If there's nothing wrong in our lives, then the issue is that we're blind to our own shortcomings. We should always be trying to better ourselves in one way or another: faith, pride, love, trust, patience... the list goes on. Tension can also be an issue, if it's allowed to be. The stress can get the best of people (after all, tension is a kind of stress).

The tension should be "between who you are and who you could be, between how it is and how it should be"

When I first woke up to the magnitude of what it means to follow Christ, along with joy came this sense of tension.

What will you do when faced with a decision to make in your life?

Will you blow it off to ease the tension? Do you really want to look back at your life and remember how you DIDN'T rise to the challenge of bettering yourself? I dare you to move.

or

Will you let it get the best of you? Will you let the stress overcome you and ultimately prevent you from succeeding? We have to start by realizing the need to change, but we must then understand that we aren't alone. Salvation is here.

or

Will you refuse to examine your life? Realizing, consciously or not, that if you take a look at yourself, you may not like what you find. You have have to make a choice.

I dare you to move