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I sent the below text message to some mighty men earlier and wanted to elaborate a little on it here:
“30 MM Finaly finishing Friday w/a flourish: passed my first of 2 check rides a couple hours ago in DC, it made for 5 stressful flights 5 days in a row… But this morning I woke up at 0430, worked out and read the Word; then got breakfast and joined 2 others for Bible study at 0645… When you've got a crowded plate, the question's shouldn't be: ‘Can it be done?' but rather: ‘Will it be worth it?' I can tell you that for me – today – it was."
I gotta confess, I know this sounds like I'm bragging about getting up and doing things I think Christians should do, but I hope to clarify my intent with this message for those who read it that way. I plan to write a series on my faults, and pride will probably be atop the list, but hear me out on this, or my point, you'll miss.
We just watched the movie Thor and in the middle a quote rings out: “When you find you don't have all the right answers, you learn to ask the right questions." My point with the text isn't that I succeeded in doing those things in the morning even though I'm very busy. My point is to consider the difference in the two questions, the first of which I spent the last month asking: “Can I do all this?" as I wrote up a list and called it “Things I'm involved in." From that experience, I learned (after dropping some of those things) that they just weren't worth the sacrifice I'd have to make elsewhere. Thus the question, “Will it be worth it?" is really more appropriate for where I am in life.
And the conclusion I find is that if the “thing" I'm involved in has eternal significance –if it positively impacts the important people in my life: (my wife, my kids, or the rest of my family and friends,) then the time I spend developing those relationships will definitely be worth it. And I believe those I'm thinking of as I write this will agree with my conclusion 100%.
Peace