Don't Settle, Part 2

Don't settle. Keep moving forward.

I want to encourage the Saints, again with this same exhortation, don't settle. I feel compelled to be redundant, do not allow the spirit of complacency to deceive you into settling for less than what God has in store for you. 

There are some "choice" blessings that God has reserved in Heaven with your name on it. But the only way you can receive that for which God has ordained for you is to keep striving and pressing for His Divine will for your life. There is danger to Settling, and that is you can actually forfeit the Blessing that God has originally ordained for you.

When looking at the story of Esau and Jacob, we see that even though God declared from the mother's womb that the elder would serve the younger (Genesis 25), Esau as the elder actually held the birthright. But he forfeited the Blessing because he chose to Settle. He didn't value properly what God had bestowed upon him, therefore he was willing to depart with it prematurely (Genesis 25). Some us, in our state of Settling, are ignoring the blessings and gifts that God has already deposited within us. No, the gifts haven't totally blossomed yet or created certain opportunities. But that doesn't make them any less divine or any less valuable. Instead of being frustrated and settling for where you are with no ambition and no drive, you need to do what Paul admonished Timothy to do, stir up the gift (2Timothy 1).

Because Esau didn't value what God had bestowed upon him, he "sold it" for a morsel of meat (Hebrews 12). When you become Settled with where you are, not with where God is taking you, you become a "sell-out." That's what Esau was, he was a "sell out."  Not for the Lord, but for that which was going to satisfy his appetite. 

How many of us have sold God out to appease our appetites: our appetite for attention, our appetite for companionship, our appetite for acceptance, our appetite for pleasure, our appetite for comfort? We've sold God out. Not because we don't love Him per se, but because we've settled. And when you settle, you end up choosing a preference that does not reflect God's Divine will for your life.

But then Esau woke up. He got it. When he actually realized what he had done, he regretted his decision and regretted his mistake. But at that point, it was too late. The decision was already made. The Bible says that "when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected:...though he sought it carefully with tears." (Hebrews 12). His emotional response and remorse was irrelevant at this point, because his decision to settle was already, settled. 

Saints, be leery, there are some decisions that some of us are making that are going to disqualify us from inheriting the blessing for which we were originally ordained. By the time Esau discovered the error of his ways, it was too late. Saints, don't let it be said that it was too late for you. Don't settle.