Thursday, August 18, 2005
love the new look of my blog? decided that the look was getting a little boring so i decided to change things up a bit. shaun put it up for me cos i'm such a com idiot. haha.went for worship practice in church yesterday and i noticed that i was the only lady there! hmm.. didn't realise that our music team is dominated by the guys. girls! time to rise up! :)i finished reading the book of Psalms on saturday and i've decided to start on the book of Proverbs. it's tough to read this book because it's like a book of rules and commandments. i read this on tuesday; Proverbs 4:23 "Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." and it just ties in with what i read in bobbie houston's book. God calls for us to be women of strong resolve. one thing that bobbie said in her book is about the importance of holding our ground. we have to hold our ground during battles, but we also have to learn how to hold our ground when there's no actual war in sight. ground can be relinquished easily, especially on days where the most exciting thing that we did is to get our daily mail. "sometimes (we) forget who we are because we aren't wearing our Sunday best." and this can happen to us when we have no discipline. "discipline simply means to be trained. such a woman realises that first and foremost the Word of God will effectively train her. she also realises that life's experiences can train her and she also understands the importance of godly friends, who will steer her in the right direction. if you don't have godly friends, pray them in, and then never forget to be one yourself." so don't think that you can lay off the Word of God for a day. you'll be losing one day's worth of training and disciplining.i read again, today, about discipline in Proverbs 10:17 "he who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray." you don't just neglect yourself when you don't heed discipline, but you also LEAD OTHERS ASTRAY. serious business, ain't it? so make sure you check yourself before doing anything next time. i've got to remind myself too. it's so easy to shrug off people's criticism but if you don't heed the wise ones, you'll never mature. if you desire to succeed in life, it is pointless to try and avoid discipline. discipline comes with the territory and it's worth noting that undisciplined soldiers often perish, undisciplined athletes usually lose and undisciplined farmers usually miss the harvest.
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