Fixing Your Windshield: Seeing Life More Clearly
And for well over two years now, and honestly somewhere around 20 years of preaching, I've been working under this assumption that the things that I need to hear, other people need to hear as well.
Fixing Your Windshield
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Identify what matters
Instead, if you've listened to any number of these episodes, I hope you understand that this is really about things that I am telling myself, things that I need to hear. And for well over two years now, and honestly somewhere around 20 years of preaching, I've been working under this assumption that the things that I need to hear, other people need to hear as well.
And things that I should have done and would have done differently, as you will hear today, may be able to save other people a lot of pain, or specifically today, a lot of money.
See the obstacles
But to help concrete in something that we can put into dynamic usage today, I reflected back, and maybe you can as well, on problems that sprung up in different facets of my life. I saw them, I saw the crack, maybe it was my fault, maybe it had nothing to do with me, but there it was.
And at that point to just address it, to just have the conversation, to simply repent and make the change, or go out of my way to make it better would have cost me a little bit of time and attention in that moment, but it would have been over.
Move from intention to action
Friendship, my relationship with people that God has put in my life and how well I see them. Fitness, the vessel that God has allowed me to possess in this life and how properly I view it, and finances, all of the resources that God has allowed into my life that really work in between and around all of the other relationships I just mentioned.
We are assessing potential problems, which isn't the most enjoyable practice in the world, but if it means catching things early and avoiding future problems, it's a great usage.
Keep building
But I wonder what would have happened if you hadn't made excuses years ago and had said, you know what, I need to take better care of my body while it's still within that range of workability. Maybe you waited until things got pretty dire, pretty bad, and now you're still having to work on your body to stay alive, to stay mobile, but it's a lot harder, isn't it?
I don't want to depress you if that's your situation, so I'll just put it to you this way whatever you have going on with your body that can be helped, whatever it is that can be repaired by personal discipline, I guarantee you that crack is as small as it's ever going to be.
Take the idea with you.
- 01Where do I see the problem or opportunity described in “Fixing Your Windshield: Seeing Life More Clearly” in my own life?
- 02What Scripture or spiritual principle in this study most needs my attention?
- 03What one specific change can I make this week to put this teaching into practice?
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