Breaking Hips

Genesis 32:24-28, And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." And he said, "Jacob." Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."

I love this story. Jacob's determination was incredible. He was willing to do anything even dislocate a hip to chase after what he really wanted.

Are you willing to break a hip? Sometimes we're going to break a hip chasing after our dreams. Every dream requires obstacles, sacrifice, pain, and persecution. If chasing our dreams and our greatest desires was easy everyone would do it.

Someone may have told you that you can't reach your dream, or that you should find a new dream. Don't feel discouraged if people don't understand your dream, it's your dream not there's. They shouldn't understand it. If you let people control your dream you're not really chasing after your dream—you're chasing their dream for you.

Too often people settle for a cheap dream. They end up doing something different than what their heart desires. Maybe they actually were chasing their dream, but they failed once and they just buried their dream into the ground.

Failure is going to happen when you're chasing dreams. All of the greats have failed. It's something that you just need to accept. When you have invested those long hours into your dream and you start to wonder if it's worth it—just know that it is.

So many people spend more time talking about their dream instead of actually chasing it. Words prove who people want to be, actions prove who someone is. Talk is cheap, dollar store cheap. Trust action.

I'm breaking hips and you should too. Heck, maybe we might stop chasing dreams and start catching them.