Ginni Rometty is an American business executive who became the first woman to head IBM. She became CEO of IBM in 2012 and led the company till December 31, 2020. Her tenure saw the company repositioned for the future through bold changes. Among other things, the company invested in high value segments of the IT market and acquired as many as 65 companies during her tenure. Ginni was credited with an outstanding statement: “Growth and comfort do not coexist”. I can imagine that the quantum leap of the company under her watch must have been at some great cost.
Ginni’s statement has scriptural validation. Israel roamed the wilderness for 40 years without getting to the Promised Land. God had to send Moses to them to move past one spot where things had assumed a familiar pattern. ““The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.” Deuteronomy 1:6-7 NKJV. There will always be the element of ‘turn and take” in the growth equation. That would mean effort or some discomfort. There is no easy way to birth growth, progress and prosperity. Jesus taught that a grain will remain so until it falls down and dies before it brings forth in abundance. If growth and progress is your goal, you must take the word of Micah to heart, that where you are now “is not your rest”.