One morning in my
devotions I do every morning, God asked me the question: “What would you do if
you were 35 years of age again?” Wow,
what a great question to get you thinking and reevaluating! I wrote in my first BLOG that such a short
blog would not allow me to share the list that I created over the following
months. However, with many emailing me and requesting me to share with them
some of my thoughts, I offer you a few things on my list in this blog that I
pray you can use.
KNOWLEDGE- I would place the greatest
value upon WHAT information I would obtain and place inside my soul
(mind). Jesus said, “The truth you know shall make you free” (John 8:32). The
Bible reveals that we are saved by knowledge and knowledge is the first
principle to life (Prov 1). The principle is this; the measurement of knowledge
we have equals the measurement of life we shall enjoy. Ignorance is the key to sin and being lost.
If you do not know God, you are lost. If you do not know how to communicate,
you will be alone. If you do not know business or economics, you will always
exchange a lot of your time for a little bit of someone’s money.
Ignorance and
deception are the core of every destruction known to man. Ignorance is the key to poverty, sickness and
psychosis. The right kind of knowledge is power. The right kind of knowledge is
essential to freedom. One can know all
there is to being a drug dealer, but that will not lead one to a secure
freedom. People possess a lot of wrong
or bad knowledge that leads to false beliefs and this has lead many of us to
live a strained, hurtful and difficult life.
As I look back over
the past 20 years and think of the many things I never was able to have or had
lost, it almost all had to do with the wrong kind of knowledge which created
wrong set of beliefs. If I were 35
again, I would be very studious and scrupulous about what I allowed into my
soul (mind).
1.) I would take
careful time to research and discover my single most definite purpose in life
and give myself to study the right kind of information / knowledge that would
facilitate my success in that purpose. I
would study to know the right kind of information that would move me towards
the ultimate purpose that I was placed on this planet. I would give myself to
know the best information for the use of my purpose for the betterment of
myself and everyone else I came in contact with. I would not waste my time
learning to know information that mattered little to nothing to me nor those
around me.
2.) I would read
the top ten books on any one given subject of my passion and purpose. We will all have the same life, same
conditions and same results of life if we do not increase the quality of
information and knowledge. It has been
said, “If we keep doing what we’ve always done, we shall get what we’ve always
gotten.” If I were 35 again, I would pick very carefully the time and energy I
would invest in growing myself, my mind and my soul in order to become exactly
what God had intended on me to become. If I were 35 again, I would not just
allow every fly by night junk that the world, television, Hollywood, so-called
news, neighbors, associates and friends said I should allow into my mind and
soul. (to be continued…)
© 2012 Dr Tim McClure
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