Put Your Want To Action

Do you want to get well? Of course you do. Do you want to be made whole? Of course you do. Everyone wants to live life to the fullest. Everyone wants the best life they can possibly receive. Everyone wants to be healthy. The next question is, what are you doing about it?

There is nothing wrong with wanting better but wanting and doing are two totally different things. Put your wants to action. Step out on faith. Sometimes to get better, we have to make that first step. For example, there is nothing wrong with wanting a job promotion but put that want into action. Start by finding a mentor in the position you want to go. Dress for the job, especially if it is a leadership position, this is impressive to upper management. Learn what the job position requires then start doing some of those requirements in the current position.

Let's take this a little deeper. What about emotional stability? You can take the first step to becoming emotionally healed. Whether it be emotional trauma from childhood, divorce, abuse, low self-esteem, etc., you can be emotionally healed. The first step is recognizing what is causing the pain. Where did the emotional start? Unfortunately it might take going back down memory lane to a place that was buried because it was so hurtful. If you want to be healed emotionally, dig it up, fix it by getting understanding then forgive those who hurt you.

Taking the first step for healing is demonstrated in the Bible, The amplified version John 5:6-9 talks about a man who was laying by a healing pool sick. In order to receive his healing all he had to was take the first step by getting into the pool. The man was laying there suffering waiting on someone else to to do it for him.  There was a certain man there who had suffered with a deep-seated and lingering disorder for thirty-eight years.

⁶ When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, Do you want to become well? [Are you really in earnest about getting well?]

⁷ The invalid answered, Sir, I have nobody when the water is moving to put me into the pool; but while I am trying to come [into it] myself, somebody else steps down ahead of me.

⁸ Jesus said to him, Get up! Pick up your bed (sleeping pad) and walk!

⁹ Instantly the man became well and recovered his strength and picked up his bed and walked. But that happened on the Sabbath 

I say to you that whatever it is you are wanting, take the first step. Have faith that God is there leading you the rest of the way. Take that step toward you healing, being whole. Think about it like this, it is better to take the risk of the first step to being made whole then not moving at all then never being made whole.