A founder from Seward sat with me and said something many leaders feel but rarely admit: “Isaiah, I know God is calling me into something bigger… but I’m terrified.” He wasn’t afraid of failing. He was afraid of outgrowing the identity everyone knew him by. Afraid of stepping into a version of himself he had never met.
He told me he had visions, dreams, ideas but every time he tried to activate them, something inside him shut down. Not because he didn’t believe in the future, but because the future felt too big for the man he used to be.
I asked him gently, “Who told you your calling should feel comfortable?” He looked at me with confusion. No one had ever framed it that way. But calling is supposed to stretch you. It’s supposed to create holy discomfort. It’s supposed to pull you into territory where you can’t rely on old habits only on God.
Over the next few months, we walked his calling forward one small step at a time. He launched a service he’d been sitting on for years. He expanded into markets he once avoided. He allowed himself to become someone new not by force, but by obedience.
One afternoon he called me and said, “Isaiah, I finally feel like I’m living instead of waiting.” That’s what calling does. It wakes you up.
Nebraska leaders carry more purpose than they realize. But comfort zones are small, and calling is expansive.
If you feel something inside you growing beyond what you can explain, I’d love to help you step into that Godled expansion.
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