Step Into The Unfamiliar

Do you remember ever walking into a dark room, and you try to find your way around, but stumble into a table,
decoration or door. If it was your room, am sure there would have been less stumbling because you are familiar with your own territory.Familiarity makes us comfortable, at ease, because we know we are less likely to make mistakes or stumble.
 

With familiarity you can easily predict what will happen next, so there are no unpleasant surprises. However, times come when we need to get out of what we are familiar with and start out into unfamiliar territories.

At this time we have to leave the comfortable and predictable for uncomfortable and unpredictable. When we become too comfortable in our familiar territory, we may keep ourselves from something better. Step by step, precepts upon precepts we are led, and sometimes the next step you may have to take may be into an unfamiliar territory. And you are faced with the decision to either remain where you are familiar with or move forward to where you are not familiar with. 

The fears of unfamiliar territories are the unpleasant surprises that may lie ahead and the unpredictability of what the future holds. But holding on to the unfailing promises of God that his thoughts for you are of good and not evil to give you a peaceful and great future plus an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11).

Then even though you do not know what the unfamiliar holds you know what the one leading you has promised. The only way to get to know what next will happen in a book is by moving to the next page; therefore, it is time to move on to the next phase. If you refuse to move ahead from where you are to where you should be you would be robbing yourself of the best God has in store for you!