We will only grow to the size that our environment allows. If we place ourselves in small environments of opportunity that offer only minimal challenges, we will never grow beyond that level; however, if we push ourselves into more challenging situations and environments that have the potential for new levels of growth, our faith will expand.

Who and what you surround yourself with will determine the person you will one day be. If you surround yourself with the average, you will only become average; but if you surround yourself with the great, you too will become great.

Many people never reach their full potential because they are stuck in an environment lacking the necessary opportunities to reach that potential. When our dreams become bigger than our environment allows, we need to start seeking a new terrain. When you plant a tree in a small pot, it will stop growing once it reaches the walls of the pot. The tree is not the problem.  It’s the environment that is limiting the growth. To grow the tree, you have to put it in an environment that will allow it to develop without borders.

Napoleon Hill said, “We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.” God calls us to push ourselves to be the best we can be for Him. We cannot allow ourselves to get lazy and apathetic by trading opportunity for comfort. Comfort can easily lead to complacency. When we are more passionate about our comfort than we are about our potential, we miss out on great opportunities that God wants to set before us.

We don’t go to our destiny as though it is waiting for us somewhere, we grow into our destiny by developing ourselves each day.

Colossians 1:10

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.