GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY!

‘Nothing is impossible if you get out of your own way’ said Mary Poppins. I sat there, beside my wife, at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Times Square and pondered what this could mean. Nothing is impossible if you can get out of your own way…
How is it that we get in our own way? We were created with all the potential in the world and yet, life falls so short of our goals and aspirations. Inner peace doesn’t live within us as much as we’d like.
The fact is that we do get in our own way. We live with a constant sense of falling short. Falling short in our relationships. Falling short in our career. Falling short in our personal human development. Slipping.
I have a friend, Nevin Eggum. He likes to climb frozen waterfalls in the Rocky Mountains. He climbs with spikes, ropes, helmet… He’s got a lot of gear so that he can survive and succeed. He would not get anywhere without the equipment. He’d simply slip and slide.
We need to be equipped to stop slipping and sliding and to survive the sense of falling short. The equipment is of an attitude that while our past mistakes and falling short cannot be changed, we can move forward.
The challenge of today is too great to meet when dealing with all our yesterdays. There is a terrific life giving word written years ago that says: ‘There is now no condemnation...’(to read it all go to Romans 8:1).
The news is that your maker God wants you to let go of the past. It’s that simple. Let go. Live. And get out of your own way.