Thought For The Week - Are You Being Intentional In Your Life?

"An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance." — John C. Maxwell The greatest threat to a man of Dominion isn't always open failure; often, it is the slow drowning of an "unintentional life." When you accept every demand, every distraction, and every low-quality thought that comes your way, you end up doing nothing that actually matters. John Maxwell draws a hard line through our calendar: true significance requires ruthless selection. Under the New Covenant, we have been freed from the yoke of performance, but we have been drafted into a mission of ultimate purpose. To "make the most of every opportunity" means you must become the gatekeeper of your own life. You cannot protect the "vessel" or expand the territory if you are constantly passive. Wisdom is the capacity to look at an opportunity or a demand and ask: Does this add to the mission of significance, or is it just noise? Every once in a while we need to pause to reflect & audit what we've allowed in us and into our camp. We embrace the rest and the recovery that fuels the mission, and we discard everything else.

Ephesians 5:15-16 "Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil."

Adapted with permission from DQ&V - Dale Lee, Anesti