We all do it. We all do it! It absolutely positively happens to everybody. The thing that we must focus on is cutting down the ratio of settling versus aiming higher.
It’s a raw deal. It really is. We’re here in this human life, wandering from one problem to the next. We never know how bad any given day might be. After about thirty or forty years of this, we get kind of beaten down. We start to feel like there is no way to jump out of the cycle. But there is!
I think I noticed lofty goals and their power in my mid-twenties. I had spent over four years writing a very popular advice column, and I became aware of something: I had changed! I was not the person I was before I started that project. My writing had improved. My success-oriented discussions had gained lots of power. I was noticing a different world! I had been somewhat locked into the world of my youth for awhile, but now I was seeing a bigger picture.
As much as some Christians want you to believe, Jesus is not happy when you settle. He wants you shooting for HIM! He wants to turn you into the kind of person He was! That’s no minor accomplishment. But for Christians all over the world, that is the goal. He truly and absolutely wants you to walk in His footsteps. How do you accomplish that?
You ask. That’s all it takes. One simple prayer. You don’t even need to do it every day. Just once. You need to make a sincere request of the Lord, asking Him to build you into the image of His only Son. Take a minute, ask for it. It will change your life immediately!
People ask me all the time how I manage to deliver the results that I do. The answer is that it is not me. I don’t do any of it. I simply spend all day with the Christ, and when I make a request, He is aware of it instantly. That is the entire process. I ask, and He does what He believes is best.
Sound simple? It is meant to be. Don’t believe it is possible? Time to change your way of thinking.
It’s a raw deal. It really is. We’re here in this human life, wandering from one problem to the next. We never know how bad any given day might be. After about thirty or forty years of this, we get kind of beaten down. We start to feel like there is no way to jump out of the cycle. But there is!
I think I noticed lofty goals and their power in my mid-twenties. I had spent over four years writing a very popular advice column, and I became aware of something: I had changed! I was not the person I was before I started that project. My writing had improved. My success-oriented discussions had gained lots of power. I was noticing a different world! I had been somewhat locked into the world of my youth for awhile, but now I was seeing a bigger picture.
As much as some Christians want you to believe, Jesus is not happy when you settle. He wants you shooting for HIM! He wants to turn you into the kind of person He was! That’s no minor accomplishment. But for Christians all over the world, that is the goal. He truly and absolutely wants you to walk in His footsteps. How do you accomplish that?
You ask. That’s all it takes. One simple prayer. You don’t even need to do it every day. Just once. You need to make a sincere request of the Lord, asking Him to build you into the image of His only Son. Take a minute, ask for it. It will change your life immediately!
People ask me all the time how I manage to deliver the results that I do. The answer is that it is not me. I don’t do any of it. I simply spend all day with the Christ, and when I make a request, He is aware of it instantly. That is the entire process. I ask, and He does what He believes is best.
Sound simple? It is meant to be. Don’t believe it is possible? Time to change your way of thinking.