Be A High Hurdler

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“Be a High Hurdler” 

I love our Monday morning staff devotion time. I always walk away with new life principles to implement throughout my day. Today, Scott Brittin, our President, discussed being a “high hurdler”. Scott was a high hurdle jumper on the track and field team in high school and he was recently inducted into his high school wall of fame.  Scott did not start out as a high hurdle jumper. His coach saw something unique in him and suggested to him that he should in fact, “Be a high hurdler." A high hurdler? This was not something that Scott saw in himself at the time. But, his coach was right. He did have it in himself to be a high hurdler. Through his coach speaking into his life, he was able to see that potential in himself. 

God not only speaks directly into our lives Himself, He often speaks into our lives through other people. He wants to draw more out of us than what we may actually realize is there. Sometimes, it is hard to embrace the walk that God has set out before us. We may doubt our ability or we may not even recognize the ability in ourself at all. If we let God speak into our lives through others, be it a coach, mentor, friend, spouse or others, then HE will draw out of us more than what we see or realize is already there. God knows it is in us, waiting to be developed. He created us to be His workmanship, with different gifts, talents and abilities.  He wants us to take a risk for Him and to develop the gifts and talents he gave us. He wants us to trust Him in those abilities and to know that we can walk with Him and proceed along the path that He has laid out for us. 

How do we do this? 

We need to receive what others speak to us through God. We need to embrace it and walk forward in it. Does it take time to develop those characteristics and gifts in us? Absolutely! It takes time and practice. Will we immediately become a success and overcome every hurdle? No! We will have to work on overcoming the hurdles. We will have to practice. We will have to learn the process. During the learning process, we will hit some of those hurdles and we will knock some hurdles down, but, eventually, once we learn the process, we will overcome the hurdles and, like Scott says, “We will run like crazy to the finish line." With God, we will make it over every hurdle that is in our path. 

I like how Scott tied the devotion all together for us with these 3 main points. 

In order to “Be a High Hurdler” we must,

1. Let God speak into our life.
2. Let others speak into our life.
3. Practice to get the process and form right.

Now, let’s go jump some hurdles for God!! 

Ephesians 2:10

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand so that we would walk in them.