When you play it safe, you are most likely moving away from where God wants you. Jesus calls us to "go," not to stay where we are. An action that requires trust, faith, and obedience. For more on this, check out yesterday's post, Responsibility Gone Wrong.
How do you know when you're playing it safe? Since I'm perfectly human, let me help you out with ways that I struggle.
Here are sixteen signs that you might be playing it safe:
1) Television takes precedence over real life. When I order my life around watching new episodes of Big Bang Theory and The Office (pre-Michael Scott departure), then I know I'm playing it safe.
2) Time off becomes "my time."
3) You don't want to be bothered by anyone. Everyone is an inconvenience to you.
4) Transparency becomes mirky. When you can't be honest with those around you, then you are playing it safe.
5) You have no true vision. You don't know where you are going.
6) You have great plans but do nothing about them. Actually, what you have are ideas that you never work to achieve.
7) You give fearfully.
8) You waste time on things that will never matter.
9) You are afraid of change.
10) Insecurity sneaks it's ugly head whenever someone around you gets attention or any kind of promotion. You compare your success with everyone else's.
11) You find your worth in what other's think about you, instead of what you think about yourself.
12) When the days run together and you can't tell what you've accomplished.
13) When you aren't praying. Or your prayers are weak sauce. Your prayers reveal whether or not you are taking risks or playing it safe.
14) An attitude of cynicism. When you are critical of everyone and everything, but you aren't doing anything yourself.
15) You aren't moved to move on anyone's behalf. Sympathy, empathy, and love for others escapes you.
16) You struggle with contentment, so you constantly spend money looking for satisfaction in the materialistic.
Question:
Are you playing it safe? What would you add?
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