Knowing When To Move Forward

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There is this incredible calling placed on us from the Maker of all creation who has purposed for each and every one of us a life of meaning and longs for us to seek Him with all we've got so that He can show us how to live it.
I'm convinced that our desires can only be truly satisfied in Him and in our following the way of life He's made for us by His death on a cross. He knows exactly what we don't and do need.
That, and if we claim Christianity, looking like Jesus is a requirement/response because our actions then give proof of our love for Him. And that is what it's all about, a relationship where we do good because we love Him because He loves us, not a religion of obligation, but a life of response to His goodness.
1st John 2:3-6 "We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."

With that said, my thoughts move in the following direction:
As we seek Christ, with every breath of air, every inspiration we take in from Him, we are given life. With every breath out we must exhale that life for another breath to be given us. Though it's not that we leave behind anything we learn, it's not that we let go or forget what He inspires us with, but that once something is understood it should become a part of our ever increasing foundation with which we live out of.
As humans, in order for us to stay alive, we operate in the balance of breathing in and breathing out. Spiritually, for us to stay alive, I think we must learn to do the same, otherwise we face the threat of apathy. We are given inspiration to move us into action, not to hold onto it for our own benefit keeping us where we are in comfort, but to live it out in our daily lives. And get this, in doing so we give what we've been given.
Genesis 12:2 "And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing."
We are blessed to be a blessing, we are inspired for action for our benefit, and in our action we inspire others. How cool.

James 1:22 " But don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says, otherwise you are only fooling yourselves."
Sometimes it takes us longer to learn certain things but once the thing is grasped it then should become action. We start off with an idea and then it should become part of us by living it. Without action I don't think an idea can ever move past being just an idea. To have learned something is to be able to do it, to be able to live it. An idea by itself isn't of much value because it's just stationary without action. Understanding gives ideas life, and what do we do with life? We live it. Once an idea is grasped, it can't just be held onto, it can't just stay an idea, it must become more. It must be used, it must be implemented into our daily lives. Understanding an idea and never doing anything with it would be like you or me buying a car and never driving it, just letting it sit in the garage.
Sometimes we breathe in inspiration and hold our breaths by keeping a hold of the same old teaching that we should have gotten by now, we should have made a part of who we are, naturally living it out. Sometimes we start driving on a new road and keep travelling that same road over and over and it then soon becomes an old road. He calls us to continually be making advances in the likeness of Him. Christ was perfect, so our striving to be like Him will never cease.
In a big but basic part of being human, we breathe in life and we breathe it back out to be given more life. We let go in order to be given more. Oh! If only we could remember this and keep it at the forefront of our minds, we might not hold so tightly onto what "we think" is so important.

What is it that we are holding onto in our minds that we probably need to move to our hearts, building upon our foundation, so that we can be given something more and keep becoming more like Christ?