Think Long
Theme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life
Paul Tokunaga
Monday, February 25, 2002
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Think Long
Theme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life
Monday, February 25
Key Bible Verse: I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: … to reach the end of the race and receive the prize (Philippians 3:13—14). Bonus Reading:Philippians 3:12—14, 20
When I was a kid, a bunch of us were always playing football in the street. The play of choice for quarterback-of-the-day was simple. Go long. The rest of his team would sprint with arms flailing and legs pumping, and he’d heave the ball as far as he could. Occasionally ball and receiver were in harmony, and we had street-football bliss.
Think long. Think of your life when you’re really old, say 35. Don’t give up your goals and dreams; just stretch out the timeline. Thinking long-term gives you a better shot at achieving them. What qualities do you want to dominate your life at 35? (If you’re already past 35, add 15 or 20 years.) What values will transform you? What character traits do you want to define your life? What do you want your legacy to be? Don’t be shy—aim high!
Benjamin Mays, former president of Morehouse College, put it well: “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal … [but] in having no goal. … It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but … not to dream.”
What do you want your life characterized by 15 years from now?
—Paul Tokunaga in Faith on the Edge
My Response: I’ll ask God to point me to a customized, life-size goal.
Thought to Apply: Before you score, you must have a goal.
—Source unknown
Adapted from: Faith on the Edge (InterVarsity, 1999).
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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January/February 2002,Vol. 5,No. 1
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Sovereign Lord, please enable me to align my goals with your purposes so that my life will bring You glory.
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