Watch over your heart

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"Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life." Proverbs 4:23.

Our culture is obsessed with success!

We are obsessed not only with our own personal success-

-         But we may be even more obsessed with providing our children with the tools they need to become successful.

We all want to do our best!

But a lot of times-

-         there's confusion about what real success is

There's a nebulous understanding that-

-         Success means that our child will one day get a good education, have a good job, a good family and be good citizen.

But-

That is a very short-sighted view!

It's not much success-

- If our children grow up to have worldly success for fifty years-

- And then spend eternity in hell.

That's a temporary success-

-         but an eternal failure!

In God's eyes-

- Success means discovering His will for your life,

- And using that purpose for the glory of God,

- Not for the glory of self.  

We must see that big picture when we help our children become truly successful.

When a child grows to understand that-

- then the child has a far greater chance of experiencing real, lasting success,

- for they will be successful in God's eyes.

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Light

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"Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." Matthew 5:15.
D. L. Moody told the story of a man who was crossing the Atlantic by ship.
He was terribly sick and confined to his cabin.
One night he heard the cry "Man overboard!"
He felt that there was nothing he could do to help.
But at second thought-
- he said to himself, "I guess I can at least put my lantern in the porthole."

He struggled to his feet and hung the light so it shined out into the darkness.
The next day he learned that the person who was rescued said, "I was going down in the dark night for the last time, when someone put a light in a porthole. As it shone on my hand, a sailor in a lifeboat grabbed it and pulled me in."

All of us have weaknesses...and times of weakness!

The fact of the matter is, though, that weak or not-
- we need to muster up the strength to put our lights in our portholes for the sake of the dying and the lost among us.
It's so tempting to-
- sulk in our weaknesses,
- and stay in our beds.
But God expects more of us!
He has given us the strength to do all things, even move mountains!
There are so many people around us sinking in despair.
But God has chosen us to reach out and light up their lives!
Let's do something extraordinary for the Lord today.
Be bold, speak up!

Let's get beyond our weaknesses-
- and light up the darkness around us!