No one can accurately explain the emotions a good man goes through when he’s carrying his first child for the first time. The feeling is just pure gold.
Happy Father’s Day to me and all fathers out there.
If you relapsed this week:
Get up.
Not next week.
Not after you've punished yourself sufficiently.
Now.
Hebrews 4:16 — "approach the throne of grace with CONFIDENCE."
The throne is not closed because you fell.
Get up.
Signs You're About To Relapse
You stopped praying.
You're isolating yourself.
You're scrolling late at night.
You're stressed.
You're bored.
You've started entertaining thoughts instead of rejecting them.
Relapses rarely happen suddenly.
Catch the warning signs early and address them!
Why is improvement hard?
Part of the issue is everyone wants to improve, but nobody wants to destroy. Change often requires destruction. Or, at least, unlearning.
Let's call it gentle elimination. You may have to leave little habits, update current beliefs, eliminate comfortable patterns. When you want better outcomes, your daily norms may need to change. The process of improvement is not just about adding things you like.
Sometimes habits and patterns belong to who you were, not who you are trying to be. If you'd like something better, then a routine you are comfortable with may have to die.
TOOK JESUS 3 DAYS TO SAVE HUMANITY BUT HE TELLS US TO FOLLOW HIM DAILY-"And he said to them ... take up his cross daily, and follow me"-Luke 9:23.
Can't debate if your ETERNAL LIFE will last, But I sure can tell you- SALVATION LAST EVERY 24 HOURS as you follow Jesus Christ.
I interviewed people at Shell for years, and here is the quiet thing almost no one tells you.
You are not rated on results alone. You are rated on the how, not just the what.
Two engineers run two projects. Both fail to hit target. One gets sidelined. The other gets promoted. Same outcome, different fate.
The difference was never the result. It was behaviour. The one who won gave daily updates, pulled his bosses into the problem early, and ran a lessons-learned session when it was over.
He turned a failed project into proof that he was safe to bet on.
Deliver, yes. But learn to be seen delivering. In most rooms, that is the actual skill.