PURPOSE > PRIORITIES > PLANS (1 OF 3)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:15
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Purpose > Priorities > Plans (1 of 3)
Series: Simple
Ross Lester
2 Timothy 2:15
Intro:
- Greetings everyone. Welcome to 2016.
- New Year's bring with them lots of optimism for new beginnings. We feel once again persuaded that we can reinvent ourselves and we are certain that last year's vices were left there. It's a wonderful season, unless you are waiting for a machine at the gym.
- But for many, New Years brings it with it many anxieties.
- How will I fit everything in with my already crazy schedule?
- How am I going to afford all of this if the interest rates go up?
-what I don't manage to implement some changes again this year and some of my most precious relationships start to take strain as a result?
- And so hopefully, we make plans, but sometimes these plans only serve to add more pressure, more expectation and more demand to people who are already very pressured, with lots of expectations and hugely in demand. Our bosses demand, our family demands, our friend's demands, our churches demands.
- I felt a bit this way last year this time and so I added a bunch of things that I needed to do to meet those pressures, expectations and demands, and I climbed on the Northern Suburbs wheel and started running. I ran faster and harder than I ever have before and it bore immediate fruit and people seemed very pleased indeed with my efforts.
- In October though I found myself lying in a hospital bed in a neuro ward with a needle in my spine as the doc tried to find the lurgie that was making me feel like I was dying. The doc thought that it would be a good time for a chat. He told me that when the procedure was over that I needed to lie still and look around the ward at the three other young men in my ward with similar neuro symptoms, and make some lifestyle choices. In his professional opinion he felt that we had all contracted virsuses that we could have fought easily if we weren't trying so hard to win at everything in life. It w ...
Series: Simple
Ross Lester
2 Timothy 2:15
Intro:
- Greetings everyone. Welcome to 2016.
- New Year's bring with them lots of optimism for new beginnings. We feel once again persuaded that we can reinvent ourselves and we are certain that last year's vices were left there. It's a wonderful season, unless you are waiting for a machine at the gym.
- But for many, New Years brings it with it many anxieties.
- How will I fit everything in with my already crazy schedule?
- How am I going to afford all of this if the interest rates go up?
-what I don't manage to implement some changes again this year and some of my most precious relationships start to take strain as a result?
- And so hopefully, we make plans, but sometimes these plans only serve to add more pressure, more expectation and more demand to people who are already very pressured, with lots of expectations and hugely in demand. Our bosses demand, our family demands, our friend's demands, our churches demands.
- I felt a bit this way last year this time and so I added a bunch of things that I needed to do to meet those pressures, expectations and demands, and I climbed on the Northern Suburbs wheel and started running. I ran faster and harder than I ever have before and it bore immediate fruit and people seemed very pleased indeed with my efforts.
- In October though I found myself lying in a hospital bed in a neuro ward with a needle in my spine as the doc tried to find the lurgie that was making me feel like I was dying. The doc thought that it would be a good time for a chat. He told me that when the procedure was over that I needed to lie still and look around the ward at the three other young men in my ward with similar neuro symptoms, and make some lifestyle choices. In his professional opinion he felt that we had all contracted virsuses that we could have fought easily if we weren't trying so hard to win at everything in life. It w ...
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