In yesterday's sermon I heard a challenge and a really good piece of advice: Always be faithful to what you are doing presently, because you are creating a history, a track record. When you get to the next chapter of your life, people who want to evaluate you will look back at that very same history.
This strikes me as being very effective in two ways:
First - there is an underlying assumption that there will be a next chapter. Sometimes I feel like life is what it is - that what I have now is what I get and there is no reason to expect anything better. Is that too negative for you to comprehend? I have no trouble doing so. But the idea that there will be a next chapter and that I can work now to impact that is very encouraging.
Secondly - when the charge to be faithful in what I am doing now is coupled with a concrete reason for doing so, it seems that a flash of motivation crossed my mind. There was a desire, probably too brief, but it was there to evaluate my current performance and determine where I am not being faithful.
A follow-up discussion might be to think about what I am being faithful to, and how that impacts the outcome.
In the meantime, why don't we give some more thought to this charge to faithfulness.
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