-LIFE.
Every one of us loves to live with joy.
Every one of us loves to live with full blow.
Every one of us loves to live with no regrets.
And in reality, every one of us experienced REGRETS.
I believe God doesn't give life with an extra package of regrets.
We make hundreds of choices every day, do you believe?
And every day we can't escape from making decisions.
What time you will wake up in the morning is a choice.
What to do for the day is a choice.
Where to spend your money is a choice.
Everything involves choices.
Unfortunately, due to lack of wisdom, we don't always pick RIGHT CHOICES and we ended up with NO CHOICE.
REGRETS steal from us three things:
1. Good Relationship
2. Greater Joy
3. God's Pleasure
Believe me or not, it saddens God when we handpicked wrong decisions. Wrong decisions which are harmful to us.
That is why God encourages us to live life with WISDOM.
Others say wisdom is our common sense. Some say it is applied knowledge.
So what jhopen says?
Wisdom is the light that points me to the right way.
Psalm 90:12 says, "Teach us to number our days aright that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
David, the author of this psalm knows how empty it is to live with regrets. And how wonderful it is to live with wisdom.
Here are some pointers I got as I went through LIFE:
1. WEIGH things down
Decisions always have choices. A or B? Yes or No? Left or Right? There will be times that we are in between. But we shouldn’t always be in between. And the more we choose to be in between, the more unproductive we become, the longer we will be stocked up. Weighing things down means you measure the possibilities of your choices. It means foreseeing the outcomes of every decision you will make. What is the best choice? It is the best if it will bring the best in you and of others.
2. INPUT confidence
Self-confidence is like a gasoline. Without it, the car won't move. Others may push the car, but they can't make the car move like when it has the gasoline. Others can help us to start again or to keep going. But they can't sustain the fire that only your self-confidence can. "You can be successful even if others don't believe in you. But you can't be successful if you don't believe in yourself." -John C. Maxwell. Many have bright ideas about life, but those who have self-confidence live with them. We may be stocked in some regrets, thinking that we can no longer do even greater. But keep believing in yourself. If others say you can't, God says, YOU CAN.
3. SECURE advisers
It is wise to surround yourself with people matured than you are. Let's mean it. We do not know everything. And we need others to help us with our weaknesses. As the saying goes, no man is an island. We need others most especially matured ones. There might be times we do not know what to do, when we can't decide what the best is. It takes us to humility to ask for help. And it’s just pride not to ask for help. It is wiser to ask from others than to push things in our own little understanding. Proverbs 24:6 says, for waging war you need guidance, for victory many advisers.
4. EXCELLENCE
Always do things with excellence. It doesn't mean you need to be perfect, or to be the top one of your class. It is simply doing everything at your best. Your work is an autograph of yourself, so autograph yourself with excellence. It is not about what you do, but how you do it.
5. LEAVE the past behind
One thing that hinders us to move forward is that we embrace our past. We make ourselves slaves of our past hurts, disappointments, guilt, etc. But remember that we are not created to be slave of them. Don't make yourself slave of your past, instead, master it. “What is done cannot be undone.”-DG Gamayo. But we can benefit from it. Let the past be a lesson of your future.
6. YEARN for God's heart
Knowing what pleases God produces great life. And doing what pleases God produces better life. First thing first, we must know GOD. What is His character? Until we don't know GOD, we can't do what pleases Him. Deeper relationship with God makes us spending life with wisdom. Always consider God in every picture we will have. Paint a picture where God is smiling.
Live life WISELY.
God wants us to have the full of it.
God stores greater things for us more than we can ever imagine.
We may have regrets, but it's not too late to create greater things that will make our life count.
Let's always ask God for His wisdom. Ask for His will in our life.
I am sure that God doesn't settle for less.
Expect greater things from God.
Value GOD, value LIFE.
“Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.” –Proverbs 4:5-6
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