We all love speed! Not all speed is good. Haste can actually result in a lot of waste. We can never get to our destination whole speeding through on a structure that is not stable.
One of the big lessons from 2024 was choosing balance over speed.
Speed is great but we cannot sustain speed without balance. .”Your speed will always be compromised without light because light comes with knowledge and revelation." Light and revelation give you understanding of the places and aspects of your life that need to take priority in every given season. What was important last season may not be the priority in this season and continuing in that vein may put you out of balance. From this, it is obvious that discernment is also important. many people go through life without understanding the season there are in.
What happens is that we become prone to whatever else is happening around us even when it is not what we require, we become anxious about catching up with what others are doing, "keeping up with the Joneses" so to speak. That becomes the whole premise of our lives when it shouldn't. So we end up caught up in this vicious circle trying to speed ahead - with no headlights.
Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to do life. I began to realise in 2024 that one of the reasons for this is that we do not fully understand the elements or aspects that help create that balance for each of us and this will be very different from one person to another.
Understanding balance
Balance is sometimes mistaken for a sense of accomplishment or even completeness.
"One does not necessarily have to be complete or even whole to be balanced."
Consider balance as the right distribution of energy across the right priorities at any given time.
Consider balance to be the force that keeps the most vital aspects of you functioning at optimum level so people experience the best of you at any given time.
We increase our pace with this dynamic consistently in place. We not only gain speed we gain momentum - sustained speed, force that keeps you moving.
By speeding through life without balance we might try to undermine the relevance of process.
The Relevance of process
Process cannot be ignored, it is required, it is crucial to your development.
Airplanes are built in a four step process. Before anything else, engineers must plan and design the airplane. Next, computer simulations using CAD software are performed to test the designs. Then, the different parts of the airplane are constructed. Finally, the pieces are assembled together.
When you look back on your life or possibly your present season I am sure you can identify times where your character was being tested similar to the computer simulations to test the performance of a plane, this machine being engineered to fly.
Following the testing phase we are brought together to join with other parts that make the whole of the plan.
In the beginning the creator had a plan and we were chosen to be part of that plan, individually. Those individually pieces had their unique fit.
Imagine your piece coming together with the whole only to discover its damaged, not ready or somehow compromised because it has not been through the right process.
How fast can you fly?
During simulations, the speed and response of the air craft is tested. Many times we go through seasons of disappointed - what if someone told you, those were seasons testing your ability, testing your character? Those seasons were showing you what you needed to work on to get to the state required for long term flying with speed.
On average the planning phase for the construction of an aircraft takes 6 years. So why do we get so worried when we find ourselves in waiting seasons. Could it be these seasons are season of planning not just the creator but for you as well.
The separate parts that make a whole. this is necessary to the effective running or flying of the plane. If these parts are not ready the aircraft will not have the require balance it needs to operate and certainly any speed would be short lived.
So at the end of the day, your ability to move with speed is not down to just you. There are many components that need to come together - these could be people, resources, counsel, businesses, your personal emotional stability etc When these things come together, it enables balance in your life!! And then speed comes and when speed comes there is no concern of things disintegrating.
Dynamic movements
In order to see dynamic movements on earth it takes the assembly of many individuals institutions, organisations etc across space and time (nations and generations). Some parts being formed right now will not see the movement they began for another couple of years or generations perhaps in other nations from which they actually started.
"A movement cannot be an individual thing. It is always a collective effort across space and time, communities and regions, people and resources."
The analogy of the plane being crafted is illuminating for our own lives. When we look around us, we need to consider those we join with, those we harmonise with and those we flow with in achieving a greater purpose. It is never as simple as the part we play. On our own we can and do play a significant part but to achieve a dynamic move, other parts will need to come together, to achieve speed and gain momentum, they are other parts that need to assembly with yours.
This is why the period of preparation for you is so important, when the activity of assembling begins your part and role should be explicitly clear to you so you can join seamlessly to create an aircraft that flies free of any malfunction.
"Car components are made away from the assembly line itself. By the time they arrive, each and every part has been rigorously tested according to the manufacturer’s requirements. These are then transported to the factory, where it is a matter of assembling them."
As I consider the part I play this year, I am considering the structures and systems that hold me together. I am considering my relationships and interactions that supply me with water and oil through the journey. I am considering my daily practices that refresh me.
My daily devotion is a non-negotiable. I would be lost without that time to refresh, realign my vision for the day, speak truth over my steps, seek out my creators heart for me and receive affections from Him. This is a daily love routine, how do you do that every day?
My core values that guide my decisions. These help me determine those I partner with, those am in relationship with and the habits/patterns I cultivate to help me meet my objectives or goals.
The community I surround myself with constantly. Our community is equivalent to the environment we create round about us. Our environment has a huge ability to condition us. It can tune how we think and what we believe - about others and ourselves. So choosing community should be a very intentional, conscious thing.
The places I give into, whether time or resources. This is all about serving and if we desire to rising in anyway in the world we must serve. Whatever it is you've got bring it - your talent, your money, your time - give of these things and learn as you serve in these places. This simple activity enables expansion. This results in organically created speed because when you work with others much more can be done, when you synergy well with others regarding your objectives more clarity comes for you and for them.
In conclusion, speed is what we were made for I believe yet we cannot go the distance alone. It takes preparation, access to the right community and cultivating our own personal systems and structures on the journey to pick up speed organically.
Hope this inspires your learning journey.
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