Anyone who won’t tell you that you have spinach on your teeth may be nice. But they certainly are not kind. Or Christian.
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God orchestrates seasons in our lives to help us “unlearn” whatever is hindering our purpose.
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The trumpet of toleration reverberates in every corner of our culture: be tolerant of other religions! Be tolerant of other lifestyles! be tolerant of all cultures! This idea of toleration has so saturated our society that rarely do most of us really think about it, let alone question it.
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Some victories are not for you. Some of your victories are designed to verify your value for others!
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Some lessons can’t taught from books, absorbed from mentors, deduced from case studies, or gleaned from conferences. Some lessons can only be learned on the battlefield and in the arena.
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Unfortunately, working smart is one of the most neglected variables in most of our equations for success.
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Perhaps many of us have not received what we have asked from God not because we haven’t asked for anything, but because we have not been specific enough!
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If we will not endure the pain of cutting away what (or who) don’t need, we will experience the pain of missing out on what (or we) we do need.
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The little things are the big things.
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Everyone is always sticking out their hands. Even more stick out their tongues. However, not too many people stick out their necks. And this may be one reason why so many of us are unhappy, unmotivated, and unfulfilled.
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If you study the lives of several of the great men of scripture, you will discover that each of them spent some time in the wilderness. Moses, David, Elijah, Paul, and John the Baptist all had their seasons in the wilderness.
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The more we hold back, the further we fall back.
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Rarely is our problem the problem. Usually the problem is the way we see the problem—our perspective, or the lens through which we see a problem, situation, a relationship, or an event. Tony Schwartz has written that one way to enhance successful outcomes in every area of our lives is to employ a technique he refers to as the three lenses.
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When we neglect ourselves, we fail to properly value the best gift God has given us outside of salvation. I have discovered that it is far easier to take care of our stuff than souls; our property than our personalities; our lawns than our loved ones, our money than our minds, and our automobiles than our attitudes.
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Being liked has become an unholy obsession. Being liked has become an unhealthy aspiration. Being liked has become more important that being holy, being intelligent, being happy, or being successful.
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Instead of asking God for more, how about we start asking God to make us better managers?
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When we fail to reach our objectives or secure our blessings, it is often because we have failed to include time and/or pressure in our plan We either haven’t spend enough time or applied enough pressure. Time and pressure. Alone they are insufficient. Together, they are unbeatable.
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When I say have the funeral, I mean to engage in a public acknowledgement of a death. To have a funeral means to talk about it, cry about it, laugh about it, and then bury it—in order to accelerate your ability to get over it.
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What blessings on you on the verge of missing because you are moving too slowly?
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Instead of drifting, I decide how to spend my time, where to concentrate my focus and in what to invest my attention.
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