Right In Front Of You

Sometimes I think we look for "x marks the spot" maps for success when truthfully, we should just look in the mirror.  Think about your wins and losses and what is the most constant thing-you are.  You are the x factor.  Its been quoted since the day it has been said but until its realized in everyone it must be repeated:  the Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21)!  I was talking to a coworker and he told me the story of his friend who worked for this lawn company-his friend was on his first day after training looking around all morning for a house he was scheduled but couldn't find it; so he started crying and took a cigarette break and just when he was about to cut his loss on his quota and go on to the next house, he looks up and not only sees his first house but also the next few houses he's supposed to do right around the block.  Its a much funnier story than the way I said it but you have to understand the meaning; this guy went all around the world to find something that was close by the whole time, and not just one house but other houses too.  See God has put something in each of us not just for the moment but for work on the line also.  Think about it, a kingdom is, for lack of a better word, big, so you can just use your imagination when you think of a kingdom-and God put a kingdom inside all of us.  Its not something you have to go on an adventure for to find, or fight a war to take over someone else's kingdom as your own; all you have to do is submit to God's Way and He will bring it out of you in wherever your destiny is supposed to be.  Now you will have to make some sacrifices and do some work to reach that potential inside of you but as we all know, you'll be better in the end for it.   So lets stop asking God to bring things together for us and lets start asking Him to stir up what is in on the inside so that we can give it back to those who need to see that they are not far off from where God wants them to be as well.