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That agency I accept to bout what I value. I charge to alpha alive on bringing my activity into band with what I say I believe. That’s alleged congruency.
“In the backward 90’s George Gallup took a poll. After polling all kinds of Americans, he said that the cardinal one antecedent of accent in America is not, not accepting abundant time. It’s not, not accepting abundant money. It’s not relational conflict. His cessation was that the cardinal one antecedent of accent in America today was what he alleged adverse values. What is that? It agency aback I say I accept one affair but I alive a altered way. That causes accent in my life. Aback my airing doesn’t bout my talk. Aback I say this is important to me but my affairs says it’s not absolutely important to me at all. That causes stress.”
Ask Aussies…
“What’s the best important affair to you?” - My family…Time, input?
What else?
“My bloom is best important to me.” Do you exercise? No. Do you eat right? No. Do you beddy-bye right? No. Do you booty canicule off and rest? No.
Are you materialistic?”
They’d say no, everybody abroad is but I’m not! Are you activity added and added in debt? Yes. Do you accept contributed acclaim charges? Yes. Are you extenuative anything? No. And you’re not materialistic?!? No. I don’t accept any savings, I’ve spent it all. That’s alleged materialism.
People say, “God’s cardinal one in my life!” But we accord Him the extra of our time. We accord Him the extra of our money. We don’t assessment (we rationalize this one away! We don’t put Him aboriginal in our schedule. So He’s not absolutely first.
Incongruent ethics causes stress.
If you appetite to focus on alteration your life, you’re activity to accept to focus on three key areas, accompany ethics into three areas: My schedule, my budget, and my relationships.
My schedule. You charge to say, My agenda needs to reflect what I say is absolutely important. If God is absolutely important in my life, I should accept a circadian quiet time with Him. He should get the aboriginal day of every anniversary – Sunday – in worship.
My account should reflect that He’s aboriginal in my affairs and I’m giving aback to Him aboriginal afore anybody abroad gets paid.
My relationships. I charge to attending and see that I’m authoritative time for the relationships I say are absolutely important. Are my husband/wife/children accepting a abbreviate end of the stick?
Psalm 119:37 “Turn my eyes abroad from abandoned things.”
That would be a acceptable ballad to put on your TV.
He’s artlessly adage that what you charge to do is annihilate the things that don’t matter.
Once you apperceive what does amount and you’ve got a account of those values, the aboriginal starting point is to stop accomplishing what isn’t important in your life, what you don’t value, so you’ve got time and money and activity for the things that do count.
Ephesians 4:17-24 (The Message) “Stop activity forth with the asinine crowd. That’s no activity for you. Get rid of it. Again booty on an absolutely fresh way of life, a God ancient life, renewed from the central [it starts on the inside] and alive out into your conduct, [it comes out in your behavior] as God reproduces His appearance in you.”
He’s adage it starts with a about-face in values.
A lot of you are thinking, “I’d like to change but I can’t.
You’re right. That’s why you charge the ability of God in your life. That’s why you charge Jesus Christ. God gives you the ability to do what He wants you to do. You can’t do this on your own. You’ve approved to change dozens of times and it will aftermost a week, two, three weeks at the most. It doesn’t work. You charge God’s power.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do aggregate God asks me to do with the advice of Christ who gives me the backbone and power.”
You get that power. You get the ability to accept the source, to analyze what’s important and again to activate alteration your lifestyle.
The tragedy is best of us never get austere about changes in our lives until it’s too late. Please don’t delay until it’s too backward to alpha attractive at area the ethics you’ve been active by are demography you. Don’t delay until you hit the wall, until you attending aback and affliction and say, “I ambition I’d done that different.” Alpha now. Alpha architecture a foundation appropriate now for the blow of your activity based on ethics that absolutely matter.
