Some of my existence on earth as an adult has been gripping onto certainty and extreme over-planning to pacify my worry and anxiety. It has shown up to trying to be all things to all people, over-extending myself and over-doing and less being. Being a Christian, I am realizing that this is not faith rather being that farmer in Ecclesiastes 11:4.
“Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.”
In the Amplified bible, it translates like this:
“He who watches the wind [waiting for all conditions to be perfect] will not sow [seed], and he who looks at the clouds will not reap [a harvest].”
I feel like there is a two-fold resistance to living life to the fullest. It manifests the most when we begin to operate to simply survive instead of thrive.
The two-fold resistance is this:
Certainty
Inauthenticity
As adults, we want certainty in a life that can never be certain.
As adults, we want authentic and meaningful human connection, but out of survival, we choose inauthenticity because it is easier and safer.
We tend to choose to be that farmer that waits for everything to line up perfectly before we take that step of faith.
Is it really faith if we see every step?
We tend to choose to mask our truest selves because it is easier and less risky to truly be seen.
The reality is this:
You can’t be all things to all people, but you can thrive at being some things to some people.
What does your “some” look like?
I want to challenge you this week to move away from staring at the clouds and forecast of your life and find an area that you can move and take that leap of faith and begin to plant into that future worth having.
I want to challenge you this week to remove the mask when around safe people and allow yourself to be seen authentically.
Let’s embrace the faith-filled adventure that uncertainty and authenticity bring to the human heart that aches for meaning.
God has placed eternity in our hearts which beckons us to live outside of certainty and to be our truest selves in authenticity.
“God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.”