Thought For The Week - Do You Have Mental Toughness?

“The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger. You're staying where you're at. Either you're getting better, or you're getting worse. You're not staying the same.” — David Goggins. Mental toughness is the ability to stay aligned with the Creator when every voice around you is trying to pull you into a trap. Goggins is right: if you only do what makes you comfortable, you are decaying.   Where have you gone soft because you’ve only been doing things that make you "happy"? If you are staying the same, you are losing ground. True intentionality requires you to seek out the friction, to do the hard work of internal discipline when no one is watching, so that when the "traps" of life come, you are ready to answer with authority. Seek the friction. Forge the mind.

Mark 12:13-15 “And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk... But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, ‘Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.’”  Tuesday of Holy Week was a mental marathon. Jesus was bombarded by traps—theological, political, and personal. He didn't survive this day by seeking "happiness" or "satisfaction." He survived it because His mind was forged in the wilderness and tempered by the Supernatural discipline of obedience. Jesus didn't choose the easy "satisfaction" of staying in Galilee; He chose the friction of Jerusalem.

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