A Challenge to Face
I just read the latest issue of Best Life. Loved one thought in one of the articles:
The only thing worse than not having the skills you need to meet your challenges is not having challenges big enough to summon all of your skills.
Man, I love that approach to life. We need big challenges! That is part of what makes life worth living! That is part of what is driving my goal-setting process. Part of the reason I'm training for a triathlon is because I need a challenge to face.
If you want to become a David you need a Goliath!
The only thing worse than not having the skills you need to meet your challenges is not having challenges big enough to summon all of your skills.
Man, I love that approach to life. We need big challenges! That is part of what makes life worth living! That is part of what is driving my goal-setting process. Part of the reason I'm training for a triathlon is because I need a challenge to face.
If you want to become a David you need a Goliath!
2 Comments:
I have been studying Ephesians 3, and the Message version of verses 7-21 is simply a beautiful explanation of what you write...
This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God's way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.
And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we're free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don't let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud!
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Status quo never moved anyone! We definitely need challenges! And when we reach the first goal, we need another, always moving upward.
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