A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down.
A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps.
A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.
Proverbs 27:12 - The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
A prudent person is a wise person. He is aware of the cause and effect relationship between what he chooses today and what he experiences tomorrow. What’s decided in one season of life will affect the next season – better or worse.
Everyone – yes everyone makes decisions every day that affect what their future looks like. Everyone does this -- every day. (Me especially) (and you especially).
Let me ask you a question. Are you satisfied today with the results of your decisions, your actions, your habits over the past three years? All of them? Most people are not.
What do you wish was different?
One of the lies we need to settle for ourselves is this: As humans we want to create a persona that says, “I have it all together.” We want people to say, “How did they pull it off?”
But what does God require of us?
Paul prayed in Phil 1:9-11: I pray that your love will keep on growing (#1) in knowledge and every kind of discernment, so that you can determine what really matters (#2) and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ (#3) filled with the fruit of righteousness (#4) that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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I appreciated this post today. My mother is leading women through a study "Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free" (DeMoss) and she bounces her ideas off of me or shares the triumphs and failures along the way. I have a copy of the book on order for myself but I am becoming more and more aware of the lies women believe. Your post highlights one I may not have wanted to face as I learn to submit my will to God. You wrote:
ReplyDelete"One of the lies we need to settle for ourselves is this: “I have it all together.” (because) We want people to say, “How did they pull it off?”
Painfully on point and one to consider in my pursuit of submission to God's will.
Thank you.