Monday Morning Motivation – Obedient
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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement—along with a good cup of coffee!—to start the day. Today we discuss "obedient."
Hopefully, the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter along to others who you think would benefit from the content.
Obedient
My guess is that this week’s topic has already caused a few eyebrows to rise. Let’s face it, when someone says “obedient,” the connotations are NOT good!
However, when we step back from the initial “shock” and think about the term, we normally conclude that we like it when OTHERS are obedient. We just don’t like it when WE have to be obedient!
Obedience implies two main things:
- First, it implies that there is some sort of criteria that exists/condition that exists that we need to adhere to.
- Second, it implies that, by nature, we normally are NOT inclined to adhere to that criteria.
We all like to think we know better AND that we are “special,” so the rules don’t apply to us. And, while I don’t know about you, I know that for me when I decide to ignore the criteria and go my own way (i.e., I’m dis-obedient) it normally doesn’t work out so well for me.
Success—and significance—in life requires obedience in faith, obedience to your friends and family, obedience to fitness, and obedience to your finances. We all KNOW how we should address / live our lives in each of these areas.
And yet we deviate all too often. Normally with less than desirable results.
While perfection is NEVER attainable, committing to be obedient to these key areas in our life is a wise, wise move. And, while it’s likely that we’ll stumble from time to time—if we are serious in our commitment—things are going to work out pretty well in the long term.
That brings us to this week’s question:
- In which of the 5 Fs (faith, friends, family, fitness, or finance) would you be best served by becoming a bit more obedient?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning.
Have a great week!
Curt
About MMM: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that at least one person will find a bit of inspiration and that this inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.
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