A new season has arrived! It's the dawn of new beginnings. If last year was rough, then this year can be better. The old has passed. Every encounter with a new day, or a new season, or a new year, is an opportunity to reap new fruit. What will your year be like? God knows. As this new chapter begins, seek His direction and follow His plan.
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One Thing You Lack
Daily Life Quote:
"Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security. You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision." Stuart Wilde
Daily Life Verse:
"Jesus looked at him and loved him. 'One thing you lack,' He said. 'Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then, come follow me.' At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth."(Mark 10:21-22)
Daily Life Thought:
I'm a list maker. Generally it serves me well. I think it helps me get a lot accomplished. I'm beginning to wonder though, if some of the time I spend making lists is just another way of shifting responsibility. My flesh (ego) wants to avoid certain things so it can do certain other things. I've experienced the euphoria of committing my tasks to a list at the beginning of the day, and then leaving the list undone. In some twisted way, just writing them down gives me permission not to do them. Why? In thinking about today's quote, I realize that where ever I give the enemy permission to distract me from the things I know I should be doing first, I lose precious time. The man in the Scripture above was focused on his stuff. It distracted him from following Jesus. His flesh (ego) had checked off his list of do's, but his heart was still camping out in the world. What a waste of energy. The lesson here though, I believe, rests first in the opening sentence. The verse says, "Jesus looked at him and loved him." He understands. And His patience with us is amazing. And secondly, a little later He says, "Then, come follow me." In His patience, He waits for us; for our maturity to catch up to His commands. That's grace.
Daily Life Question:
Where are you being distracted? Has Jesus asked anything of you lately, that makes your "face fall?"
Greg Tutwiler, CCLC, BCPC
wwwFreedomLiving.org
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Scripture verses are from the NIV unless otherwise indicated.
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Greg Tutwiler is a Certified Christian Life Coach (CCLC) a Board Certified Pastoral Counselor (BCPC), a member of the AACC, an Affiliate Coach, Discipleship Coach Trainer, and Outreach Director with Blueprint For Life Institute, an ordained minister, and co-founder of EveryManAlive ministry and TrueLife Church. Greg is also the author of the books, "Stand Your Ground," available at Amazon.com, Passages, and The Transformational Life Journal.
You can visit his web site at www.freedomliving.org, or email him at coach@freedomliving.org. |
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