Letdown Setup
Theme of the Week: Stick with the Fundamentals
Monday, July 28, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: You couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready (1 Corinthians 3:2). Bonus Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:1-3
What if you developed a daily schedule this way? You decide: Here is what I want in my life. I want to work out at the gym, have a quiet time, eat a cooked breakfast, get to work early, come home, sit down with the family for dinner, help my children with homework, read, write a letter to a friend, catch the game on TV, and be in bed by ten.
You do the math and find it takes a 34-hour day. You do more math, a little cutting here and there, and figure you can squeeze most of it in by rising at 4 a.m. You fill in the time blocks, set the alarm and go to bed, ready for your new life to begin.
At 4:20 a.m., after you've hit the snooze button for the second time, you wonder what you were thinking. You skip the gym, settle for a toasted bagel, and pray in the car on the way to work. You push on through the day, but it only gets worse. You throw in the towel by noon.
It was simply too much to do at once, so you end up in defeat, going back to life as lived before.
It's seldom wise to attempt a regimen that begins with everything you can think of doing. [continued 7/29]
—James Emery White in Serious Times
My Response: What can I learn from my big plans for a disciplined life, and miserable failures?
Adapted from Serious Times (InterVarsity, 2004) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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