Proverbs 1:5 reads, “Let the wise listen and add to their learning.”
In order to keep growing, you must understand three principles:
1) You grow to the extent you give.
By giving out, you create more room to grow on the inside. So give until it hurts, and keep giving until it feels good. Always endeavor to leave people better off than you found them, and you’ll be better off too.
Solomon said, “The liberal man shall be rich! By watering others, he waters himself” (Proverbs 11:25). This epitaph on a tombstone says it all: “What I gave, I have. What I spent, I had. What I kept, I lost.”
2) To accomplish more, you’ve got to grow more.
Do you feel stuck spiritually, relationally, career-wise, or at home? You won’t get unstuck by making external changes, like pursuing a new career, leaving your family, or changing churches. Nobody’s keeping you down but yourself. The lid on your life is – you.
So if you’re serious about getting unstuck, instead of looking for quick fixes take a long hard look at yourself, accept responsibility for what you see, pray, and decide to do something about it.
3) It’s not enough to dream; you must do.
The Tartar tribes of Central Asia are reputed to have used a particular curse against their enemies. They didn’t call for their swords to rust or their people to die of disease. They simply said, “May you stay in one place forever.”
If you don’t work daily to improve yourself, that will be your fate too. You’ll end up stuck in the same place, doing the same things, dreaming the same dreams, and never getting anywhere. So keep growing!
© 2017 CE