Will you push and prod, stepping over or on those who get in your way?
Will you eat humble pie and serve those around you to become great?
To what measure will you strive to succeed and become significant?
And to whom are you seeking the same and acknowledgement?
Remember this:
What you bow down to on your way up the ladder of success will OWN YOU on your way back down.
Choose wisely.
Choose sparingly and carefully.
For too many owners makes the slave exhausted and weary…
And the success so much less to be desired.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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What are you allowing in your life that Christ would urge you not?
What are you coveting that He would have already cast away?
Sometimes, our lives seem to be on hold, and we blame it on circumstances, being held back, and maybe even our own incapacity to overcome a certain handicap in our lives.
Yet, I have found too often, my limitations aren’t due to someone or something around me, but rather it’s from pursuit of something I should have never been chasing in the first place.
When we start chasing God stuff rather than me stuff, we will find success will come on a whole new level.
Ask Him what tables He would flip in your life, and let Him start cleaning house.
It’s a whole better place when He’s in charge and He comes to abide.
Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
It’s so true that there are many things of which we have no control of our choices.
Decade in which we are born.
Parents. Birth location. Upbringing.
Physical attributes. Talents. IQ.
These things are given to us, and we have no say.
Yet, we do have a say in how we respond, in how we handle, and in how we carry on once we have them.
And this choosing results in our character.
Which is also a choice.
And it also will become our voice.
How we respond to the things we cannot control will determine our promotions, our successes, and our influences.
We are never a victim.
Being a victim is a choice. And that choice brings about our character.
When we choose to hate these things out of our control, or maybe just fight against them in a rage that wounds all those around us, it shows our character as rude, spiteful and selfish.
When we choose to embrace these things out of our control as chains, and we are just a martyr for the cause, or maybe we just can’t do any better because of all that has befallen us, it shows our character as weak, whiny and self centered.
Yet, when we choose to accept these things out of our control, fight against the things that would try to inhibit us, and become overcomers inspite of the pain, the turmoil and the difficulties, it shows our character as bold, courageous and focused.
And when we take this tenacious attitude a step further and begin to show others how to overcome their own obstacles, it shows our character as loving, giving, and outward seeking.
We can be a hero or a zero.
The choice is ours.
What will you choose today?
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:37
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
We can walk gracefully forward in age, or we can fight it, rebel against it, and revel in our youth until it is no more.
We can walk gracefully toward old age, or we can lament and regret all the days gone by.
Walking gracefully into age is not to mean you have to become decrepit and feeble before your time.
It doesn’t even mean to halt all living and die where you stand.
Aging gracefully can be beautiful when done right.
Aging gracefully is actually fighting for what you have with fervor and zeal.
Aging gracefully is grasping reality by the hand and twirling it into a spin that becomes a majestic waltz.
Aging gracefully is letting the tears roll on while breathing in deep the peace that surpasses understanding and the merciful love of eternity.
Aging gracefully is laughing with joy at the days ahead because you are secure in Who holds your tomorrow.
So, dance the dance until it becomes your life.
Embrace the years and savor those precious moments while letting the bad slip through your fingers like sand.
Let the goodness overwhelm you as the sweetness of His glory bursts forth through the pain.
Age gracefully, my friend.
Little ones are watching, and they follow closely behind.
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In tribute to my grandmother who was a beauty and aged gracefully till 94. May I follow closely in her footsteps, as well as all who knew her through the years…
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She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
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