Easy to say, hard to do. As most things in life tend to be once we make this big life changing decision to do better and be better. Whether it be starting and staying with our new New Years Resolution or a simple to do list to keep us on track. Always in the end, we hope that in this task the overall goal or result will be achieved. In all transparency, I find this to be one of the hardest things to do. Some may think it’s the planning of a business which as I have experienced, is the absolute ghetto. Or it could be going to the gym and working out those muscles even through soreness. But in these two examples, the functionality of how the end result is accomplished or seen comes from repetition. Continuing to return to what you started despite the soreness and despite the ghetto-ness of a business plan. It’s the recurring steps in repetition that affect how things will turn around or stay the same. Now if we take it a little further and stretch our minds in this walk, we can easily go back to the same thing in repetition acting in the same behavior. But the same only produces the same. It is not until we choose to take on a different way of behavior that the door for change is opened. In this behavior the number one requirement and principle is drum roll please…..CONSISTENCY!
Sorry y’all I had to make sure I wrote that out in big letters not just for you but for myself as well because honey, it gets very real out here and every now and then, you need a reminder. Everything I am saying and speaking to you guys about, I am walking through in these steps of faith right with you. Walking in consistency, I have come to discover, is not just steps. It also consists of just being. Getting to this place alone is not easy. It has its moments, but when you tap into this flow it becomes not just what you put on but what you put in as my amazing leader and Bishop Dr. Courtney Bradley says all the time. Consistency is a deeply rooted behavior that starts inner and is reflected on the outer. How does it grow and get stronger in its residency within you? Well I believe that is determined upon what you are ingesting. Many don’t see how the intake daily affects the longevity of results. The understanding of what it is made of and consists of in its truest form and not a made up depiction. It is continuing to stand in a sure confidence of what the truth says over the lie. Once you can begin to sit in and on this having finally come to agreement, then I believe that is where consistency can be housed. It is a functional and vital part of the system that should truly never have an off button if it really is something you have put inside of you. Don’t worry time will tell and reveal all as they say especially in those moments of testing. When you are on this roller coaster it can’t be exactly what you want to hear because then you’ll never grow out of your prior. There must be times when you are provoked to possibly act out for your character to be revealed. I always find it so funny that it takes pressure to produce. Whether it be the pressure of a timeline to reach a goal or maybe the weight of the promise before it is tangible. Oh how I know this weight very well my friends. I can still feel it now while writing this and wrestling with myself to finish and complete this task at hand even though sleepy faith is saying hello, it’s about time for a nap. But as much as I would love to knock out and sleep, the weight to finish and push is on me even in the yawning. I know that I must use every moment of my time and day to its fullest capacity and stretch past what is required.
I have found in my walk in life thus far one of the hardest things that everyone wants to run away from but needs the most is discipline. Consistency will reveal your level of discipline based on the temperament of your character. It is a time of revealing the inner parts of you, what you are made up of. Is what pours out of you made up of good substance or is it contaminated with a really nasty attitude or full of pride? Many don’t realize that it’s the little things that make up the big things. Every now and then you need a check up on the inner so the outer does not suffer from an unattended healing. It is only in this place true acceptance can happen. Coming into an agreement that is so necessary for the forwarding towards a greater future but most importantly a better you. This is a daily choice I have to make especially in those hard moments when everything in me wants to do the opposite. A place of testing under the fire where the root of your character is unpacked. Going through the wilderness only to come out both found and filled with victories in a series.
Forever in Faith. Forever in Motion,
Faith Joy Mondesire