Often times, we will find in the midst of struggle, that we can actually do something to improve our situations in life. Therefore, we put in the work to do what we can to make things better for ourselves. In the meantime, we recognize that the work we put in to improve our circumstances, is actually the work we should have been putting in all along before the circumstances ever arose. Nevertheless, the progress we make is actually good but achieved out of disease and a sense of desperation. Something had to get sick before we did what we were supposed to do. We had to have our backs against the wall, desperately looking for a way out. But God wants us to make progress in life out of devotion, dedication and discipline. He wants us to be good stewards of our blessings; not have to wait for the urgency of desperation before we do what we’re supposed to do. Wow! If we’re not careful, consequence will be our biggest motivation to do what we’re actually supposed to do; and not conviction. The love we have for God and the calling placed on our lives calls us to be good stewards of our lives. The motivation for doing what you’re supposed to do has to be intentional in living a life purposed to glorify God in all that you do. Many of us suffer unnecessarily because we simply fail to do what we’re supposed to do. We fail to be good stewards of what God has given us–health, money, relationships, etc. Then when those things suffer, we don’t accept the fact or even realize that’s is our own fault. We’re suffering because we didn’t do what we were supposed to do; not because of happenstance. The simplest bit of advice we can all benefit from: When you learn better do better. If you don’t know, learn. Irresponsibility and ignorance are never good excuses for hardship.
*Tressa Jo
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