{"id":10764,"date":"2026-03-08T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:09:57","slug":"what-you-tolerate-you-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=10764","title":{"rendered":"What You Tolerate, You Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Steve Gatena<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>You didn&#8217;t end up here by accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unfulfilling job.<br>The habit you keep saying you&#8217;ll break.<br>The conversation you&#8217;ve been putting off for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody forced those things on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life just made staying quiet feel easier than speaking up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">But silence is still a choice.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a version of staying stuck that doesn&#8217;t feel like a decision.<br>It feels like patience, or wisdom, or waiting for the right moment.<br>And sometimes it is.<br>But if you&#8217;re honest with yourself, you know the difference between waiting on God and hiding from growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a farmer who walks his field every morning, surveys the dry ground, and prays for a harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He prays with real faith. Real sincerity. Real hope.<br>But he never plants a seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God honors trust, but He also honors movement.<br>Faith isn&#8217;t passive.<br>It&#8217;s the courage to act before you can see the full picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You don&#8217;t need to see the whole road. You just need to take the next step.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Scripture puts it plainly: &#8220;For we are God&#8217;s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.&#8221; (Ephesians 2:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You were not created to observe your life from a safe distance.<br>You were shaped for something.<br>Wired for growth.<br>Built with a purpose that doesn&#8217;t shrink to fit your comfort zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, change is uncomfortable. It&#8217;s messy.<br>It asks things of you that staying the same never would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But staying the same actually has a cost:<br>A slow, quiet drift away from the person you were always meant to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you&#8217;re not changing, you&#8217;re choosing.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>That isn&#8217;t meant to shame you.<br>It&#8217;s meant to wake something up in you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question worth sitting with today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is one thing you&#8217;ve been tolerating that you know, deep down, needs to change?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not ten things. One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s your health.<br>Maybe it&#8217;s a relationship that&#8217;s been running on empty for years.<br>Maybe it&#8217;s a dream you&#8217;ve shelved so long it&#8217;s started to collect dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to overhaul your life today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Send the email.<br>Make the call.<br>Say the thing you&#8217;ve been holding back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small, faithful steps are still steps.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>God doesn&#8217;t ask you to have it all figured out.<br>He asks you to move, and He promises to meet you in the motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not a victim of your circumstances.<br>You are a person with the Spirit of God living inside of you, and that changes everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The life you keep waiting for starts with a choice you make today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Gatena You didn&#8217;t end up here by accident. 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