The key's in your drawer, isn't it.

There’s something I do more than I’d like to admit. I get to a door - at home, at work - reach into my pocket, and realise I’ve left the key in a drawer somewhere. The door is fine. The key is fine. I’m just standing on the wrong side of it.

I wonder if you know that feeling. Not with a physical door, but with something God has placed in your hands.

A conversation you’ve been meaning to have. A message you drafted and never sent. A friend you’ve been meaning to check in on for weeks. The intention is completely real. The heart is genuinely willing. And somehow, it never quite happens.

James 2:17 puts it bluntly: “Faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.”

He’s not talking about earning your way to God. He’s writing to people who already believe - people who already have the key - and watching them leave it in their drawer.

Here’s what I’ve found to be true: living out your purpose almost never looks heroic. It rarely involves a stage or a mission trip or a dramatic declaration. It looks like one conversation, one kind word, one knock on a door you’ve been walking past for weeks.

God doesn’t ask you to open every door. Just the next one.

In today’s devotional, I explore three honest reasons we keep purpose theoretical - and what it looks like to take that one small step of faith today.

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Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-already-have-the-key-seven-days?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true