I truly cannot cook. I tend to get bored with food and just settle. I love cooking channels and the mouth watering “FoodTV” shows. They always reveal my envious flesh desiring every bite…every plate put before the customer and every place I’ve yet to visit.
It also causes “me” to reflect on how we oftentimes are willing to “settle.” The list is most likely long for many and short for those of “wealth” and/or with an adventurous spirit.
For instance, I have settled for the white leather sofa that I have had since 2007. I wanted it to go with an accent red wall I painted. I’d did some redecorating to make myself “feel better” after a difficult time. It was beautiful and perfect back then but so not comfortable today.
I have settled for the lounge chairs that I have because I didn’t want to “ask someone” to deliver me a brand new one, nor did I want to rent a delivery truck for one item. They are nice but still longing for that “perfect chair.”
I will settle for my “sleep number” mattress because it was a pricey purchase, although somewhat impulsive. And the warranty expired so I must keep it. I simply must. Even though the comfort is far from perfect. Not a complaint but a true statement.
I have, with gratitude settled for my used Camry that was also an impulse purchase. Someone totaled my sports car on a beautiful-sunny-quiet day on my way to the book store. And I was leaving for Haiti on mission in three weeks.
I have no real style and I’m used to it being this way. I’ve settled for the clothing, the shoes, the jewelry and “handbags” none of them being designer, because truly I am a simple girl. Although I’d love to get all dolled up one day!
And let me just add that I am one hundred percent grateful for all that I have and all that HE has provided and continues to provide for me. Beyond grateful for HIS faithfulness in every area of my life. BIG and small.
I was simply using some of these analogies to point out that we tend to settle for things and then, most times they are actually lazy choices. Some are because we have no alternative and many more are because we humans do what is familiar.
But one thing I will absolutely not settle for, and that is being a complacent Christian! I will not settle for a mediocre prayer life. I will not settle for an occasional Sunday sermon. I will not settle for a feel good Bible verse and I will not settle for seeing unsaved souls all around and not tell them about this “good news!”
My life “may” appear mundane but I will not settle for being quiet about the One who changes #everything! Settle for stuff if you so desire, but please do not settle for living life in hopes there is place in heaven for you when you can be absolutely confident that your name is in His book of eternal life!
Please do not wait until you die and discover you’re not in that book and banished to the Lake of Fire.
