Keep Moving Forward

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🌶️🌶️🌶️ Here’s the sauce for today:

In Matthew 10:14, Jesus gives a simple but powerful instruction: “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.”

This is not about bitterness. It is about momentum.

Jesus is teaching His disciples that rejection is not a signal to stop. It is a signal to move. Shake the dust off and keep going. Do not camp in disappointment. Do not replay the moment. Do not let someone else’s response slow your obedience.

How often do we dwell on mistakes, awkward moments, or opportunities that did not work out? We replay conversations, overanalyse reactions, and punish ourselves long after the moment has passed. But Jesus teaches speed. Speed in obedience. Speed in movement. And speed in forgetting.

Shaking the dust off your feet means refusing to carry what was never meant to stay with you. The dust belongs to the place you passed through, not the future you are walking into.

Some doors will close. Some people will not understand you. Some efforts will fall flat. That does not mean you failed. It means you are done there.

Shake the dust off. Move quickly. The next town is waiting.

🔑🔑🔑 Key takeaways:

• What you do not dwell on cannot weigh you down

• Let go quickly and move forward freely

• Speed in forgetting protects your calling

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Josh from Soul Food