Refuse To Settle - Pocket T-Shirt
I’ve came to understand “what is” and “what is supposed to be” often isn’t the same thing. I watch too many get warn down in the process (which I totally understand) and lower their standards, give up hope, settle for “this is just the way it is.” Lately, I’ve watched many thought leaders and influencers minimize God’s capacity, ability, or willingness to the experience they see so many have. “If this is the way it is for so many, AND He’s meeting them here, this must be how God designed it to be. Anything more seems too much, too legalistic, too hard, like striving.”
While my heart breaks for those in the process and I see and know how exhausting it is to be in the inbetween, there’s something inside of me (probaby the Holy Spirit) that comforts but refuses to lay down. It refuses to water down hope, it refuses to simplify what freedom looks like, it refuses to give in to our experience just because it hasn’t been seen yet, it refuses to expect less from God because it’s taking longer than expected.
This is where the message of “refuse to settle” comes from. I have to believe there’s more He is willing and capable of. I don’t always know why not now, or why not yet, but I know His heart and I know He’s not done yet.
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²)
• Garment-dyed, pre-shrunk fabric
I’ve came to understand “what is” and “what is supposed to be” often isn’t the same thing. I watch too many get warn down in the process (which I totally understand) and lower their standards, give up hope, settle for “this is just the way it is.” Lately, I’ve watched many thought leaders and influencers minimize God’s capacity, ability, or willingness to the experience they see so many have. “If this is the way it is for so many, AND He’s meeting them here, this must be how God designed it to be. Anything more seems too much, too legalistic, too hard, like striving.”
While my heart breaks for those in the process and I see and know how exhausting it is to be in the inbetween, there’s something inside of me (probaby the Holy Spirit) that comforts but refuses to lay down. It refuses to water down hope, it refuses to simplify what freedom looks like, it refuses to give in to our experience just because it hasn’t been seen yet, it refuses to expect less from God because it’s taking longer than expected.
This is where the message of “refuse to settle” comes from. I have to believe there’s more He is willing and capable of. I don’t always know why not now, or why not yet, but I know His heart and I know He’s not done yet.
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²)
• Garment-dyed, pre-shrunk fabric
I’ve came to understand “what is” and “what is supposed to be” often isn’t the same thing. I watch too many get warn down in the process (which I totally understand) and lower their standards, give up hope, settle for “this is just the way it is.” Lately, I’ve watched many thought leaders and influencers minimize God’s capacity, ability, or willingness to the experience they see so many have. “If this is the way it is for so many, AND He’s meeting them here, this must be how God designed it to be. Anything more seems too much, too legalistic, too hard, like striving.”
While my heart breaks for those in the process and I see and know how exhausting it is to be in the inbetween, there’s something inside of me (probaby the Holy Spirit) that comforts but refuses to lay down. It refuses to water down hope, it refuses to simplify what freedom looks like, it refuses to give in to our experience just because it hasn’t been seen yet, it refuses to expect less from God because it’s taking longer than expected.
This is where the message of “refuse to settle” comes from. I have to believe there’s more He is willing and capable of. I don’t always know why not now, or why not yet, but I know His heart and I know He’s not done yet.
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Fabric weight: 6.1 oz/yd² (206.8 g/m²)
• Garment-dyed, pre-shrunk fabric
