I was privileged to spend a few hours in the place called Golgotha today, Good Friday, and observe the people as they came to this place where Jesus was crucified.
As I sat in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and observed, I began to write this poem.
No Longer a Question
Every nation, so many faces
Weary, crying eyes, fearful questions
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord‘s hand double for all her sins.
When the children of Israel sinned, they were often smitten in the very thing that they sinned, but they were also comforted with the very thing that caused them to sin.
(Excerpt from Theological Dictionary of Rabbinic Judaism, Vol 3, 31. Jacob Neusner – Slight modifications and edits.)
Have you ever wondered why the modern church struggles to accomplish GREAT things for God?
“How good and how pleasant it is for His people to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1
Continue reading Minute in the Word – Strength in Unity
One of the harder concepts for me to learn was how to remain focused on the most important tasks that will result in my greater success.
Pursuing anything in life requires an intensity and an emotional attachment to it. There has to be a fanatical commitment to the most important things in life to generate continual growth and development in that area.
Here is a quick list that I have been using to help me maintain my focus:
1. Count Your Days
This concept works well if you are already doing a daily journal. In your journal write down how many days that you have been alive. This provides an urgency for that day. I have been alive 12,339 days. That is a LOT of days. It will make you think about all of the wasted time that was spent doing frivolous tasks.
Also in this process of counting the days, I often will repeat in my mind the words “Do it now…Do it now…Do it now.” Every morning when I wake up, and every night when I go to sleep, I repeat these words. This will also further push the urgency of the most important tasks.
2. Two Main Questions
What’s important now? and What’s Next? If you continually focus on these two questions, it will be very difficult to get away from the highest priority tasks in your life. This will also make you get up earlier and can keep you up at night.
3. Honor your inner circle
When you maintain a close relationship with those that are closest to you, you will constantly focus in on the most important people in your life. This will also push you to improve your relationships with them and improve the quality of life for you and your most valued individuals.
Keeping your intensity running at maximum will improve your productivity, but it will also make you more self aware. You will stop allowing time to slip by or be wasted on things that are not a part of your core focus. When I started mastering this concept, amazing things started to happen in my life and business.
As John Maxwell says,
“We often over estimate what can be done in one day, and under estimate what can be done in many days.”
Keeping your focus every day allows for continual growth that will result in amazing growth.
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