Thursday, 19 August 2010
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Are You Too Busy to Achieve Your Dreams?
By Justin at BeDeviantI’m ankle-deep into Tony Schwartz’s book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, and he drops this bomb on me:
We are so busy getting things done that we don’t stop very often to consider what it is we really want or where to invest our time and energy to achieve those goals.
Does this strike you as profoundly as it does me? I believe this is wisdom.
I mean, how many of us can honestly say that we’ve taken time in the past month to ask the question, “What do I really want to do with this life I’ve been given?” And if you have asked that question, were you able to ask without injecting religious-sounding language (‘God, if it be Your will…’)?
Ask yourself that question, “What do I want to do in life?”
When you get an answer, drop everything you’re doing and take steps to make that happen. I’ll even help you, if you want.
Too many people sit idly in Cubicle Land, wasting away, while their God-breathed dreams remain shelved and shrink-wrapped for another day.
Does that idea make you sad? The idea of your dreams wasting away? If it does, think about how it makes the one who gave them to you feel.
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This is good, except I see no reason to take God out of it. "And if you have asked that question, were you able to ask without
injecting religious-sounding language (‘God, if it be Your will…’)?
Ask yourself that question, “What do I want to do in life?”"
God doesn't want us to waste the talents he gave us. You have a point that people shouldn't use "God's will" to rationalize bad situations, but God can work through every person in every situation. God's will and our will are not meant to be in conflict. True freedom the aligning of the two.
But I agree that "getting things done" all day tends to bring us no nearer to God nor to where we want to be.
@StephanieP - "God's will and our will are not meant to be in conflict. True freedom the aligning of the two."
Did you mean to say "True freedom is the aligning of the two"? As in, exchanging our thoughts for God's thoughts? (Last part I heard from Creflo Dollar.)
@kalel32688 - Hi there! Yes, I did mean to say "true freedom is the aligning of the two."
I'm not sure I would phrase it as exchanging our thoughts for God's thoughts. Essentially, when our will is properly ordered and seeks only the good, the will will follow God. When we seek disorder and slip into sin, the demands of sin and inordinate desires constrain our will and it is bound to the sin rather than free. So when our will is free from the things that hamper it, it follows God because God's will always wills that which is best for us. In this case, we still have will and so does God.
Sharon at SheWorships explained it very well in her recent post, "How to talk about sin."