Well known speaker and author Chuck Swindoll pointed out some words of wisdom from the Apostle Paul found in the book of 1 Corinthians. Paul was visiting with the Christians in Greece. The Greeks were educated, philosophized, cultured folk to be sure. But the admonition the Apostle gave them was anything but flowery and ethereal. It went more like this:
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
Let all that you do be done in love.
Hmmm. Not really something you’d get from a Socrates seminar. But poignant none the less.
But it was Pastor Swindoll’s personal take on the subject that I found inspiring. He put it a bit more like this:
Give it All You’ve Got.
When you first wake up to face a new day, give it all you’ve got!
When you’re dealing with a tough challenge, give it all you’ve got!
When you need to make a difficult decision, give it all you’ve got!
When it’s time to exercise and lift those weights, give it all you’ve got!
When you have to go on after a disappointment, give it all you’ve got!
When the day is long and you want to shut down, give it all you’ve got!
When a change is necessary and you must do it, give it all you’ve got!
When you lose someone close and have to go on, give it all you’ve got!
When the years pile up and you need to end well, give it all you’ve got!
Easy to do? No. But think about it. Regardless of the situation we find ourselves in, what if we all just gave life everything we had? The world, as we currently know it, would most likely be very different place.
Just my thoughts.
S.
