“Philip found Nathanael and told him, ‘We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of
Philip had been looking for something. Philip had been expecting something. Philip recognized someone . . . and wanted desperately to share it with his brother and friend Nathanael.
Another of our great sources today, is author and lecturer, John Maxwell. It is from John Maxwell’s book, MAKE TODAY COUNT, that I have borrowed this title. Maxwell condenses success to a formula he uses for making each day a masterpiece. A masterpiece consists simply of two parts; good decisions and good discipline.
Decisions are “goal setting” while discipline is “goal getting”. Maxwell also breaks life down into bite size pieces, one day at a time. While we may set monthly, semiannually and yearly goals, we live life and face our jobs or tasks, one day at a time. In fact the only way we can really make an impact or a difference, immediately, is today.
Today, if we plan well on sound decisions and live well with good discipline we will surely be one day closer to the elusive success we all seek. The way we live our lives today is preparing us for our tomorrow’s successes. If we work hard now, on the front end, then we will reap rewards of success in the future on the back end. We have all heard it, “You reap what you sow.”
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. . . But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” Luke 8:5-8
GODENING NOTE: The error of location and care of plants in the garden is much more easily corrected than the error of where and how we spend our time. Today is precious, that is why it is called the ‘present’.
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