I’m in the midst of a project with the company I work for.  It’s called a “Kaizen Event.”  Kaizen = incremental changes for the better.  So far, our meeting has transpired over five days.  (With several more weeks to go).  After a week of this my brain is fried!  This event has really challenged my thinking about the processes that we were asked to evaluate and to bring about change. 

During my drive time home each day I have debriefed the days discussions, this process, and my own life in the light of this process.  Before going to bed each night I have been reading Erwin McManus’ book Wide Awake.  I have been in Chapter 3,  Adapt,all week long.  The focus of this chapter has been on change or as McManus writes, “reinventing yourself” by the power of the Holy Spirit.  See 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Romans 12:1-2.

What is it about change that you like or dislike? 

At work we are wanting to take something that is a good thing and make it better by walking through this process.    As I look at my own life and evaluate it - I want to bring my good life to the foot of the Cross and give it to my Lord and say, “Jesus, bring about the incremental changes in my life for the better so that I may be pleasing in your eyes.”  In this chapter McManus challenges,

If you’re not living the life of your dreams, if you wake up with that little bit of sadness in the mornings because you know you’re underachieving, living a life of mediority, and chooosing average, it’s easy to blame everyone else for your condition.  Especially when your condition is really good, but not the dream God has for you.  You’re not called to settle for the good life; you are called to a life of greatness. (Wide Awake, 67). 

What is it that you must do to bring your life from good to great?  Living the dream is to live a life of greatness.  It’s a humbling invitation given by God to be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you can live, test, and approve what His perfect will is for your life.

Are you living the dream?