Welcome to Moe’s! I love to hear those words because it means I am at Moe’s Southwest Grill (www.moes.com) where I am about to chow down on a couple of fish tacos. I just love the environment at Moe’s. It’s loud, fast, and you get to randomly yell, “Welcome to Moe’s!”
Today I am thinking about “Mo”. Not as in restaurant, but as in “Momentum”. Momentum is you best friend and worst enemy. With momentum things move faster and further than you ever imagined. Without momentum things move slower and harder. Church planting has a lot of waves of momentum. Everyone asks you, “How is it going?” Well, it depends on the time of day.
Today, I found the place I have been praying about for the launch in Sept. (Positive Mo, Yeah!), and then found out it is mucho expensive (Negative Mo, Boo!).
Here is the lesson for me today - While the momentum of a day may determine the difficulty of my task, only I can determine the nature of my attitude. If I am full of joy only when things are easy, then much of life will be spent in the shadows of life.
Paul spent two years going in and out of the court of Felix. (Acts 24:27) That one little line speaks volumes. Two years of positive and negative momentum. Within these years Paul wrote many letters, and his influence actually grew.
You can not always determine what kind of momentum is around you. You can always determine your attitude and actions in the “Big Mo”. A couple of fish tacos always helps too!
I have loved the book “In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day” by Mark Batterson and the concept of facing our greatest challenges. We may get scratched up and even slips on the slops of our lion pits, but at the end of the day when have faced the lion(s), our bravery will catapult us closer to reaching the dreams that God has placed in our hearts! (2 Samuel 23:20)