Month: March 2008

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15 seconds

Last night I caught myself getting lazy.

I emptied an ice tray (that’s what poor people without automatic ice makers use) and was about to put it back into the freezer when I thought to myself how ridiculous I was. I get lazy a lot! I have a bad habit of dropping my clothes off at the end of the bed or in front of my closet. I was not raised this way, in fact I had a chore book as thick as a phone book that my dad was very thorough with checking.

So I decided to do the right thing and fill up the tray that I had just emptied. A funny thing happened, I needed ice this morning, and I had a full tray waiting on me.
Last night, I wondered how much time I was worried about wasting when I was about to put the tray back in empty, so I figured I would count, just to see how long it would take me to do the ‘right’ thing, I also recorded a couple of other things and their times:

  • Fill up ice tray, put in freezer – 15 seconds
  • Clean up Tristan’s mess with cloth, put in hamper – 12 seconds
  • Re-hang shirt I decided not to wear – 7 seconds
  • Plug up my cell phone instead of letting the battery die – 5 seconds

35 seconds actually saved me time and problems. I had ice when I needed it and did not have to wait a couple of hours, there was no mess on the floor to step in, my shirt was not making the room messy on the floor or on the bed, and I didn’t have to wait half the day to use my cell phone because it was charged. It pays to take the 15 seconds to do the right thing. Now I need to take the 20 minutes and clean up those areas I put off.

20 minutes or 15 seconds? What are you putting off that will cost you more time and problems in the end?

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Making the Switch

I have had horrible allergies for as long as I can remember.
I usually use Tylenol Severe Allergy or Claritin.

Last week, my aunt gave me a sample of Zyrtec.
It worked great…

So I am making the switch, from Claritin to Zyrtec.
Well the off-brand, yesterday was my first day, so I’ll see over the next 14 days if it works as good, I think it will.

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Tired

Here’s some things I’ve been thinking about today:

I’m tired of:

  • Being stuck in an office all day.
  • Feeling like I am an average Christian.
  • Feeling like I am an average Leader.
  • Feeling like I am only doing average things for Christ.
  • “Pastors” like Jeremiah Wright prostituting their position for political reasons.
  • Christianity always taking a hit because of idiots.
  • Apathy in the church.
  • Legalism
  • The fat around my lower abdomen that I can’t get toned.
  • Routine.
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Steven Furtick: Courageous Leadership

I have said it before on my blog that Steven Furtick, Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte NC, is a huge inspiration to me. Steven is 28 and launched the church when he was 25, he is young but he has stayed steadfast to what God has called him to do, and God is blessing him and his ministry in a huge way. His church just turned 2 years old and they are running around 4,000 people between 2 campuses!

My pastor passed his message “Courageous Leadership” along to me. It is awesome! I uploaded it to Media Fire so I could share it with the blog world. I hope I am not breaking any copyright laws or anything like that. I just thought that other pastors and church leaders would get something out of the message.

CLICK HERE to download the message audio file.

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Thought for the Day

I have been thinking about this verse a lot lately, not because of it being the Easter season and the natural reflection on Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. I have been thinking about it before this past week. It puts Christ’s love for us into perfect perspective:

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. Philippians 2:5-8

I cannot count the times that I thought highly of myself, or I thought that I had accomplished something great. Yet, Christ had equality with God, he had divine privileges, and he counted it as worthless, because he valued loving us more! Verse 5 is the hard part, “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.” That’s the verse that lets me know that I am not all that I think that I am at times!

Would I give up divine privileges for someone who would eventually murder me? Would I give up my position in a comfortable, perfect Heaven, and my equality with the Creator of the Universe? I wouldn’t, but Christ did. How can I even come close to that attitude? It’s possible through Christ, or we would not be told to do it, but that is a huge mountain to climb. I know one thing, it will humble us to realize we cannot accomplish such an attitude on our own, but it is through Christ that we can. How then can we think highly of anything that we do?