Enjoy Where You Are

I know right now many of you are going through a time of transition, a time of being shaken up, you are going through different situations and dealing with different circumstances in your life. There might be things in your life that you are believing God for. It could be a spouse, a baby, a job, a new home, etc. and sometimes in life the things which we don’t have, or the different situations we are dealing with can become our focus.

Yesterday I was watching Joyce Meyer and she said, “Enjoy where you are on the way to where you are going,” and for me it was a life changing statement. I know there have been times in my life where I’m so focused on what I don’t have that I miss what I do. For example Daryle and I were both out of work for over a year and we got to spend every day together, and much of the time I was looking at the fact that we didn’t have a job or income coming in, instead of looking at the blessing of time which God gave us to be together, to get to know each other better. After it was over and we both started working I realized that I could have made more of that time, I could have appreciated it more, and that is exactly what Joyce Meyer is referring to. Sometimes we look so much at what we don’t have or focus on what we really want instead of enjoying what God has already given us.

Jesus said I come to give you life and life more abundantly (John 10:10). Just because there are certain things we believe are missing from our lives we have to know that we have abundance right where we are. I challenge each of you today to begin to thank God for the little things, and appreciate what you do have right now. If you are believing for a spouse appreciate the time you have with just you and God now because believe me when another person is introduced into your life things change, you have to manage your time and life differently. If you are believing for a child appreciate the time that you have alone with your spouse, because when a baby come it’s going to be a whole new ball game and you won’t have the same alone time with your spouse as you did before. If you are believing for a job appreciate the time now that you have to just be, to just go out and enjoy God’s creation without interruption without having to be on a tight schedule. Enjoy God, enjoy yourself. Appreciate the now people of God! There is so much that God has blessed us with that we already have that we haven’t appreciated, and we can never get back our yesterdays. So from this day forward let us begin to enjoy where we are on the way to where we are going.

Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org