Playing with Fire

Whats stopping you from becoming what you want to be in life? One of the most common answers I'm assuming would be fear. "The fear of becoming great." "The fear of failure if you don't make it." Many of these type of answer come up when I have conversations with people about the issue of fear. I too have used this as a diagnosis as to why I fall short in areas of my life that I claim to want. Upon further review, I must recant the many times I've made that statement to any of you reading this. For, just as much a part the match plays in the burning of a building, so much so does fear play a part in the destruction of dreams, or this is the the way I've seen it work. We quickly diagnose the dream deferred as a lack of confidence, or fear which supposedly cripples us into a comatose state which we apparently grow all to comfortable with. We grow comfortable in our "daily grind" we grow comfortable in our "boring jobs" we grow comfortable is in our comfort ability, all because of the all powerful fear of change, failure, or rejection. I use to believe this in my own life when I was faced with an obstacle but upon further review like I was wearing the referees stripes myself, I am starting to believe that it is shear laziness on my behalf that cripples me. A conversation concerning a well to do author (the only reason he's well to do has nothing to do with his book but rather his other half's book club and 4pm talk show) sparked the idea that fear played the biggest part in him not going after his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Upon hearing this I came to my own conclusion that this was merely BS and the author simply did not want to put in the work required to reach that goal. By no means am I saying that his current career path did not lead him to the success he once wanted, but what I am saying is that sometimes goals aren't reached because we realize the price you must to achieve them. For some of use we realize that we never had enough to pay the toll any way or what I am suggesting is that we will never know until we try and anything else is a form of laziness, sparked by fear. This spark of fear again is the match but the fire is laziness and it spreads into other areas of our lives often times because we get comfortable with the heat...It becomes bearable...sound familiar, You may be in Hell and don't even know it. Family Check Yourself, Lets not get comfortable with hell and furthermore lets us acknowledge that some things in life we cant afford. Let us be cognizant of the talents God's given us and put those to use as best we can before we start to reach for things we cant afford yet.