Your ability to carry out your mission depends on the resources available to you at each stage of life. And because knowledge and resources should increase over time, then your seasons must change too. One of the mistakes many people make is getting too comfortable with their current level. There is nothing wrong with starting small. There’s nothing wrong with managing. But you must be wise enough to know when it’s time to grow. Hebrews 5:12 reminds us that there’s a time to stop drinking milk and start feeding others. Don’t overstay your welcome in yesterday’s version of you.
There’s a time in life when it’s perfectly okay to live in a one-room apartment, or even a classic Lagos-style “face-me-I-face-you” setting where eighteen people share a toilet and bathroom at the back. That’s fine. That’s life. You’re managing. You’re starting. That stage comes with its own kind of mission. Maybe you’re only reaching one person, teaching one student, employing one helper. That’s okay. But when the season changes, you must move. You can’t still be playing in the sand when God is calling you to build with bricks and gold. What worked last season may become disobedience in the next.
Don’t let the present comfort deceive you. There is more on the other side of fear, uncertainty, and growth. Growth will not always be convenient, but it is necessary. There are things that were acceptable yesterday that should make you uncomfortable today. There’s a pace to your mission. Pay attention to it. Watch your life and your surroundings carefully. The goal is not to make it big overnight. The goal is to move with God, step by step, level by level. Be faithful with one. Then be faithful with ten. Then with a hundred. But whatever you do, don’t settle. When it’s time to move, move.
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