This Came Across My Desktop This Week…

As we travel down the road on the journey called LIFE, we sometimes run into a fork in the road. It is not like the fork you find on the dinner table, though; usually this fork requires a decision. It is a place where we have to make a choice.

Sometimes choices are not as clear as we would like them to be. In fact, in most cases, the choices are very difficult. What has been discovered is that the road less traveled might just be the right road to take. Sometimes we have to take risk, we have to pave a new way. In some cases, it is for our best that we go down the road that is less traveled. It could possibly be a road that has some potholes and maybe a rickety old bridge that needs to be crossed. But, what we might discover could be greater than anything we ever imagined.

So next time you are confronted with a fork in the road in your life, check out the two paths. Just don’t always pick the one that looks like the best path. It might look and be “easy” but it may take you to “no where”! Trust God; He will lead you the right way on the right path.

Pastor Randy

“Lead me Lord, I will follow. Lead me Lord, I will go. You have called me, I will answer. Lead me Lord, I will go.”

THE PRICE OF SUCCESS…..

What is it that brings one person success in life, and mediocrity or failure to others? It can’t be mental capacity. There is not the difference in our mental abilities that is indicated by the difference in our performance. The answer is, some succeed because they cheerfully pay the price of success while others, though they claim ambition and desire to succeed, are unwilling to pay that price.

THE PRICE OF SUCCESS IS….
1. To use all your courage to force yourself to concentrate on the problem in hand; to think of it deeply and constantly; to study it from all angles; and plan ahead.

2. To have a high and sustained determination to achieve what you plan to accomplish, not only when conditions are favorable to its accomplishment, but in spite of all adverse circumstances that may arise.

3. To refuse to believe that there are circumstances sufficiently strong to defeat you in the accomplishment of your purpose. Hard? Of course it is! That’s why so many never reach for success, they yield instead to the siren call of the rut and remain on the beaten path that is for beaten people. Nothing of note has ever been achieved without constant endeavor, some pain, and ceaseless application of the lash of ambition.
THAT’S THE PRICE OF SUCCESS… Everyone should ask themselves: Shall I accept the uneasy and inadequate contentment that comes with mediocrity? Or am I willing to endure the pain of this struggle for the rewards and glory that come with achievement? Author unknown.

Pastor Randy