Stagnation Nation

 

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

 

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catholic woman… we can’t because it goes against tradition. DANGER DANGER DANGER…

 

 

A Winthrop Arkansa Man jumped out of a passenger window of a car moving at 60 mph, being severely injured. He jumped out to retrieve his cigarette that someone had thrown out the window… when asked what he was thinking he stated I live in a car and typically get in and out through the window… I guess I was just to use to it. Now you may call that stupid, but I call it stagnant. 

 

Erwin M. Soukup has compiled what he terms “The Seven Steps to Stagnation”:

1. We’ve never done it that way before.

2. We’re not ready for that.

3. We are doing all right without trying that.

4. We tried it once before.

5. We don’t have money for that.

6. That’s not our job.

7. Something like that can’t work.

 

Soukup admits that “there’s probably an eighth step, but we’ve never looked

it up before.”

 

But what exactly is stagnation? I believe it is truly as simple as being out of balance. You are stuck in one place… and you might say “well that sounds like balance to me”. No really, not at all. Because you are saying that it is never moving, and never moving does not mean balance, it means you are stuck. If I have a scale and it never moves no matter what I put on it… thats not balance, that is error. I need to learn to see stagnation in my life as error - not balance. 

Larry Osborne asks the question in his book Contrarians guide to knowing God. Is there anything so out of balance in my life that it is harming my health, relationships or walk with God? Again if you are feeling stagnant, you are out of balance. Lets get back to that scale again. There are two types of scales we use when we weigh ourselves. The one where we stand on it and the numbers just show up on the screen. And then there is the type we see at the doctors. It has weights and measures on it and everytiome someone stands on it they have to slide the two weights around playing with them until the arm is perfectly parallel and balanced. That is what our lives should look like each day when we get up. God you are the weights and your word moves them. What do I need to do to become balanced today, this week, this month and this year. What do I need to do to be balanced in life. Is there stagnation in my life… am I stepping on the scale and holding the arm in place on my own because its comfortable. Look it would be nice if we got on the scale and could control it… and actually we could… but as nice as it would be, it would also be dangerous. you don’t want to be your own balance keeper. 

We talk a lot as Christians about Repentance but not a lot about Change. There is no repentance without change. Repentance is simply stating to God… Hey I don’t want to change, and I need your help to change. Im stuck, will you unstuck me. And if you are willing to trust and obey him, he will in fact unstuck you.