Four Imaginary Imprisonments (Part Four) | The Worshipper's Thought of the Day

In the last installment, we started on the second imaginary imprisonment; and the following post will conclude "Mediocrity."  Prayerfully, you're being challenged by this series as I, too, have been.  It's not always easy coming face to face with our bondages, especially when they're not the obvious ones we hear preached about week after week.  These iniquities, if you will, tend to be the little foxes that spoil the vines of our thinking.  For it's in the battlefield of our minds that we must DAILY enforce Satan's defeat, which occurred when Jesus conquered death via the resurrection.  The curse of sin has been broken, our eternal victory has been secured and we are NOW FREE from every bondage of sin in our lives.  Hallelujah!

Imaginary Imprisonment #2 | MEDIOCRITY (cont.)

Please understand that our imprisonment is no longer mandatory.  WE ARE FREE.  Any imprisonment that we participate in AFTER salvation is because we've chosen it.  So let's face it: ALL forms of bondage following our experience of the new birth are self-imposed.  So choose to break free from mediocrity! We're so consumed by what we feel we CAN'T do excellently that we totally dismiss what we CAN do.  If we would just do what we can, then GOD will step in and do what we can't.  Don't feel pressured into going the whole way.  Just go the way, and GOD will add His super to our natural.  Once we truly understand this, we'll see that we can do what we can't do.

There's nothing more liberating than knowing that nothing is impossible.  With GOD, all things are within our reach; but most of GOD's people have lives that resemble very little freedom, if any at all.  It's like we've been pronounced NOT GUILTY by the judge and, upon leaving the court room, we pack up our things and go back to the jail cell.  HELLO!!!  Something is TERRIBLY wrong with that picture, but it's an all too familiar image in the Body of Christ.  People literally receive salvation and spend the rest of their saved lives rusting on a church pew until the rapture.  That's not the life Jesus died for.

In order to tap into and maximize the life more abundantly that Jesus promised us in John 10:10, we need to exchange mediocrity for excellence.  Let's start with the smallest things and begin to totally revamp our approach to everything we do.  We can seek opportunities to improve the mediocre areas of our lives instead of complaining about how poorly these areas may be.  For when we get off of our blessed assurance and exercise responsibility (i.e. "our ability to respond"), then we will begin to see the glory of GOD manifested in our everyday lives as we replicate His excellence.  This is what exalts our GOD in the Earth, causing men to see Him in us and inquire more about this GOD we serve.