The Nine-Out-of-Ten Club
Self-Discipline
Bill Hybels
Wednesday, December 1, 1999
 1 of 1
Key Bible Verse:
Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more
(1 Thessalonians 4:1). Bonus Reading: 1 Samuel 2:22-25; 3:11-13
My father died of a heart attack at age 53. He was one of the most energetic and motivated men I have ever known; few people could begin to keep up with him. He started businesses, helped ministries, flew planes, drove motorcycles and sailed a 45-foot yawl across the Atlantic Ocean
He was disciplined and diligent in every area of his life, except one: caring for his body.
He was lazy and careless about that his whole life. He paid no attention to diet or exercise. Nine out of ten isn't badunless the tenth one kills you.
Few people I know have sunk into across-the-board slothfulness. But many of us are suffering from little pockets of laziness or inactivity.
What kind of people suffer from selective sluggardliness?
It's the dad who sets sales records at work and shoots a four handicap on the golf course but fails miserably to respond to the emotional needs of his wife and children.
It's those who spend more money than they have and say tomorrow they'll go on a budget.
Bill Hybels in Making Life Work
Personal Challenge
In what areas of your life have you worked hardest? In what areas have you slacked off?
Thought to Apply
Better be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.
John Trapp
Credits: Adapted from--Wednesday:Making Life Work (InterVarsity, 1998)
1999 by the author or Christianity Today International/ Men of Integrity. For reprint information call 630-260-6200 or e-mail mail@menofintegrity.net.
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