THE STARTING BLOCKS

When a sprinter takes his place at the starting line, he positions his feet in the blocks and relaxes.  He releases all the tension, all the worry, all the doubt from his body and mind.  In that moment of release, feet fitted into place, the runner is safe in his own lane.  He is -------------comfortable.

But when the judge calls out, “Runners take your marks,” the sprinter flexes.  His weight shifts againstthe starting blocks.  He is coiled, and every fiber of his being wants to launch away from the place where he is.  He is not comfortable there anymore.

When the starter pistol fires, the runner could choose to relax again, to shake away the tension and settle back into the blocks; but if he did he would lose the race.

Your comfort zone is not the place where you are supposed to be.  It’s the place where you are supposed to begin.  Tension in your comfort zone may be the signal that it’s time to go farther, to work harder, to become better.  Embrace the tension.  Use it.

If you don’t run beyond your comfort zone, you lose.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have achieved these things; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ^I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  (Philippians  3:12-14)  
----- Anderson T. Graves II

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is the pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church
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