A Life Well Lived Pt. 1

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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Job 36:11

A compilation FEBRUARY 12, 2013

If you get so focused on reaching the destination, you may neglect to enjoy the ride. There are many “destinations” that you’re focused on right now: completing certain tasks, getting to items on your to-do list, and much more. But in your journey to work on these things, don’t forget to enjoy the steps along the way.

Stop and think of one thing that you love about this moment. Is it the quietness of the day? Or perhaps the fact that you have a chance to sit still and alone to read these words? Is it that you feel healthy and strong? Or is it that beautiful plant that you just admired? Think about some of the joys of this moment—joys that you wouldn’t naturally notice or consider joys. Choose abstract joys, the ones that take real thought and consideration.

Next, think about your job, or how a regular day goes for you. Consider all that you do in the day, and all that you’re focused on accomplishing. Now, pull away from that scene and think of all the joys that you get to experience in a regular day, but which you never noticed before. Think about some of the humorous talk you’re privileged to hear by being around your children. Or the cold fruit juice you can enjoy while preparing a meal. Think about the chance to see different faces and to get a peek into different lifestyles through your witnessing or interactions with others.

Think on these joys and determine to discover more of them. Ask Me and I will help you to discover the joy in every moment of every day.—Jesus, speaking in prophecy1

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Draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp.

Do not fear being misunderstood, and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do, and then, without veering off direction … move straight to the goal.

Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual.

Preserve a right mental attitude—the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. … Every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our thoughts are fixed.

Never think of yourself as old, weary, sick, or discouraged. Never think of yourself as defeated. Get hope into your mind, and change all negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Remember, there is a tendency to become what you image or visualize.

Pull yourself up, physically, mentally, spiritually, by filling your mind with hope. “Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance.”2 As you hope in God, you will have health in your countenance, because you will have health of body, mind, and spirit.—Elbert Hubbard

1 Originally published 2008.
2 Psalm 42:11 KJV.
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CONSCIENCE IS GOD'S PRESENCE IN MAN

God created man as a free moral agent. He gives each of us the majesty of personal choice to choose between good and evil, between obeying the guiding voice of God or obeying the voice of the Enemy. He gives the very best to them who leave the choices up to Him!


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