Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Cause and Effect

Read Deuteronomy 10-12

Deuteronomy 11:13 "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,"

We learn that certain actions have consequences. If we put water in the freezer, it will turn into ice. If the doorbell rings, we will find someone standing on the stoop when we open the door.

So when we diet and exercise, we expect the pounds to drop off. We expect our hard work to cause changes in our figures and a loosening in our clothes.

And we get frustrated when that doesn’t happen—when days or weeks go by without the effects of our diligence showing up. That’s when we need to get our focus off the results and on to the process. We will get there, but we need to keep going, even with discouraging results.

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