I was talking to a very special person in my life today. She is stressed out and frustrated by her own situation. She feels like she says the same thing over and over to me and yet nothing has changed. I encouraged her to take a walk and talk to God. She said she doesn’t feel He will listen because she questions so many things. “He will listen and He cares deeply about you” I said. She like many of us desires some changes in her life. She feels stumped. How is change going to come and what changes should she make. In some ways the fear of failure may be the driving force behind the lack of change for her. I encouraged her to journal her feelings, dreams, failures, frustrations and accomplishments. I also encouraged her to pray and ask for guidance and then right down what should would like the future to hold and steps on how to get there.
How many of us watch the show the biggest loser??? As we watch Jillian Michael’s whip people into shape we are all in awe of her amazing physic. Secretly or not so secretly we are wishing we could be on that show so that we too can reach our fitness goals. Just for a couple minutes let’s think about that. If you could just focus on you for say 8 full weeks. That is mornings, afternoons and evenings. Not having any real life responsibilities. No cooking dinners, driving kids here and there, doing laundry or any household chores. Having someone tell you exactly what to do to achieve your desired goals. Even cooking your meals for you! O that would be the life!! You probably would feel you could get where you want to go! The facts are we can no longer sit on the couch watching the biggest loser eating our bag of potato chips drinking our “DIET” soda and expect that to happen. We need to establish what our goals are. The big one first. What is it that you want to accomplish. Say it is to get your house in order. Could you imagine if someone would just show up and take you step by step on how to organize all your junk and pay for all the products that are needed to do such a thing!!! How wonderful life would be! Snap out of it. It is not gonna happen. So you take it step by step. The big goal is the whole house so the small goal is room to room. you work diligently day by day and with in a short time you have just accomplished a big goal. Think about a marathon runner. They don’t just wake up and say okay today I am going to run 26 miles. They have to condition their bodies to do this. they have to learn to eat right and breath right and they have to get out and run to build endurance. This is much like life. We have to set the goals and then condition our lives to meet the goals we have set in place. Only you ultimately can change the course of your life. I want to encourage everyone today to set the course. Make the goals plain and run with endurance this race we call life.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (The Message)
all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win. All good athletes train hard. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You’re after one that’s gold eternally.26-27I don’t know about you, but I’m running hard for the finish line. I’m giving it everything I’ve got. No sloppy living for me! I’m staying alert and in top condition. I’m not going to get caught napping, telling everyone else all about it and then missing out myself.
