It's courage not great ideas that makes the world

​Some of the lines were pretty long at Busch Gardens last Saturday. This gave me plenty of time to listen to Ian share his new roller coaster ideas. As if the drops and twists and upside downs we were in line waiting for weren't enough, Ian had to add things like people riding and bouncing around inside suspended oversized inflatable bubbles.

After a long day of listening to his designs, I told Ian, "you realize none of these roller coasters we've ridden today are people's ideas, but instead are the ideas people had enough courage to follow through on, right?"

I had a conversation with someone the other day who was talking about Uber, and how they wish they'd been the one to come up with the idea for that delivery service. I told them a lot of folks had the Uber idea, but one person had the courage to follow through with it.

And it's not just big rollercoasters and delivery services and million dollar inventions that come alive when ideas meet courage.

✔Churches are planted.

✔Backyard decks and gardens spring up.

✔Relationships start.

✔Books get written.

✔9 to 5s turn to work from home and work for yourself.

✔A run through the neighborhood becomes a marathon.

It's easy to walk through the world and believe we are seeing a collection of good ideas. Sure, everything starts with an idea, but no idea ever created itself.

Courage stands between what the mind sees and what the world gets to see. Courage stands between what you wish you could be and what you'll ultimately become.

That's one of the main reasons I'm a believer in the story of creation. God imagined a beautiful world filled with a beautiful collection of plants and animals and people. But God didn't stop at an idea.

God said let it be...

Maybe that was the utlimate form of inspiration for us - to remind us that we too were created to follow through on our ideas. We too were made to be courageous enough to make the things we see become the things everyone gets to see.

It's Monday. You will have ideas race through your mind this week. There will be plenty of things YOU will see, how many of them will you have enough courage to make sure the WORLD gets to see?

There will be plenty of things you will see. How many of them will you be willing to say, let it be....