- Joined
- Apr 25, 2006
- Messages
- 18,404
Don't Give Up (2)
'We are hard pressed...' 2 Corinthians 4:8
Two other things about people who keep going:
1) Don't be afraid of failure: When we face failure, sometimes the biggest lesson we can learn is that we CAN keep going.' You might fail, but if you don't keep trying you'll never succeed! Basketball legend Michael 'Air' Jordan says 'I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career...lost over 300 games...26 times I've been trusted to make the game-winning shot, and missed. I've tried and failed over and over again. That's why I succeed.' Remember Paul talks about being '...battered by troubles, but...not demoralised...thrown down, but [not] broken' (2 Corinthians 4:8 TM).
2) They focus on changing WHAT they can: If you are facing stuff that is out of control there is always one thing that you can control; YOU! Other people are out of your hands, events and circumstances can come crashing around you but YOU decide what your attitude or actions will be. In concentration camps prisoners of war who routinely gave away their last bit of food, proved that you can choose your attitude in any given set of circumstances. To choose to give, care, smile, forgive, or love is both good for others and us.
Workers digging through the rubble to help rescue survivours of the Oklahoma City bombing, though understandably distressed, showed fewer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder later on. Paul says: '...whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord...' (Ephesians 6:8 NKJV).
written by Bob Gass
'We are hard pressed...' 2 Corinthians 4:8
Two other things about people who keep going:
1) Don't be afraid of failure: When we face failure, sometimes the biggest lesson we can learn is that we CAN keep going.' You might fail, but if you don't keep trying you'll never succeed! Basketball legend Michael 'Air' Jordan says 'I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career...lost over 300 games...26 times I've been trusted to make the game-winning shot, and missed. I've tried and failed over and over again. That's why I succeed.' Remember Paul talks about being '...battered by troubles, but...not demoralised...thrown down, but [not] broken' (2 Corinthians 4:8 TM).
2) They focus on changing WHAT they can: If you are facing stuff that is out of control there is always one thing that you can control; YOU! Other people are out of your hands, events and circumstances can come crashing around you but YOU decide what your attitude or actions will be. In concentration camps prisoners of war who routinely gave away their last bit of food, proved that you can choose your attitude in any given set of circumstances. To choose to give, care, smile, forgive, or love is both good for others and us.
Workers digging through the rubble to help rescue survivours of the Oklahoma City bombing, though understandably distressed, showed fewer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder later on. Paul says: '...whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord...' (Ephesians 6:8 NKJV).
written by Bob Gass
