Today's (yesterday's...) QT talked about some things I mentioned in my post last week. It talks a lot about how we miss the big point when we get caught up with doing the "right" things. We forget why we're doing them in the first place and do it for the sake of doing it. While I have this happen to me many times, I think I struggle with something a little different. Last week I talked about getting caught up in "planning" to do things -- making sure I have a surefire way to make sure I stick to my commitments (which end up falling through in the end) instead of getting right into what I've committed to do.
This week, I think I've realized that I also get caught up in the "dont's" rather than the "do's".. I try to steer clear from the "bad" things, but rather than fleeing from them and finding refuge in the "good" or "right" things, I just kind of settle down in between. I've comfortably assumed that because I'm not doing the "dont's" that I'm automatically doing something right. I guess that in every sense of this issue it looks like I just can't do the "do's".
This week I will try to set aside time to "re-flect" on myself and the ways I decided to spend my life, my time and see how my life can be shaped by the "dont's" as well as the "do's".
That was really vague..sorry.
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good point~
i don't know if it's really related, but i tried to make a point during my sermon but nobody really understood it: having maximum mentality is saying that "i will do it unless it's unbiblical"... whereas minimum mentality is "i will do it only if the Bible says so". a seemingly subtle difference, but actually they reflect very different mindsets.
jonathan. i hecka didn't get that part haha. =) but it sounded rhetorically cool.
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