"IT" Part 4

Recap:
Greatest Joy + Greatest Fruit = Your IT
Sometimes you just know your IT
Many times you have to experiment to find your IT
Once in a while you'll be surprised by your IT

And so...if you find your IT and live in IT then you will be neck-deep in joy and fruit.

Well maybe.

The only thing is that even when you find your IT and you know ITs your IT and you have experienced lots and lots of JOY and lots and lots of FRUIT because of your IT, it doesn't mean that there will be days when your IT won't be as Joyous or as Juicy as you hoped.

What happens then?

Then you have to lean on something else--Faithfulness.

Sometimes the greatest joys come from a long season of struggle and pain AND most every time the greatest fruit come from a long process of planting and feeding and under-ground growth and sprouting and growing and so forth.

And in those days when you know you've got to do your IT but your IT isn't paying off immediately you'll have to remember to be faithful. You'll have to remember the joy that you had the last time your IT blossomed. You'll have to remember the last time there was a harvest of really nice fruit. You'll have to trust God with your IT. Because here's the deal. Even if IT is your IT....God is the one that activates it and makes it work. He's actually the guy in charge of the results.

For me...all my ITs revolve around relationships. And with relationships it's always slow. It always takes time. And so I have to lean on faithfulness more than I honestly want to. BUT....I know that if I stick with it I'll get to experience amazing things. Again, I have to trust God with my IT.

You'll have to learn to trust God with your IT, too.

So here's my prayer for you: I pray that you will find your IT. That you will find great Joy. That you will find great Fruit. And that once you find IT that you would remain faithful to IT as long as God wants you to.


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