While many are
aspiring to be Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, developing a closer walk with God,
being married, having children, job promotions and whatever else; the
ingredient call discipline is usually absent from their equation in achieving
their desires.
To be discipline
suggests that you have thoroughly considered the principles, rules and
regulation of whatever it is that you're getting yourself into and at the same
time decided that you would subject yourself to the rules, regulations and
principles that accompany and govern that situation in an effort, to achieve
your intended desires..... This my friend now becomes the personification of
commitment!
So based on the above
understanding let's take note of the following scenario. Are you involved with
someone that speaks of how committed they are, however you've observe a major
lack of discipline in their life? Well my friend this is called "putting
the carriage before the horse", meaning, a horse pulls a carriage but it
is impossible for a carriage to pull a horse. Therefore commitment will always
be the end result of the consistent acts of discipline! In other words
discipline is the engine that generates commitment.............
Discipline folks are
not surface people, meaning their calculations of any situation is based on its
surface and depth. It will be as a result of this overall assessment that they
will then determine if they are capable of disciplining themselves to produce
commitment to whatever it is they're planning on attaching or binding
themselves to.
Uncommitted folks are
just the opposite, they are always ready to leap before they look and consider
after they would have act! Fortunately, you don't have to possess a spirit of
discernment or be a prophet to recognize an uncommitted person. uncommitted folks
are far more talkers than doers, unstable, always with an excuse, rarely able
to fulfill promises, classic disappointers, always with big dreams and big
ideas engulfed with big talk but it's usually followed with little to no
action.
These folks are agents
of Satan to keep you and themselves delayed or setback in life. Scripture tells
us that a double minded (indecisive) man is unstable in not some but all of his
ways and always armed with excuses to defend his instability to be discipline
to achieve commitment, James 1:8, Scripture goes on to say, "He that
tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain
persons shall have poverty enough" Proverbs 28:19. The understanding of
this scripture is suggesting that the one who works with discipline shall have
a harvest at the end of the day, but the one that follows and believe in those
that are big talkers, big dreamers with no action and gives no evidence of
discipline or commitment in their lives. Then, it will be such persons that's
holding their hand and guiding them on the road to poverty and a non-progressive
life,
The bottom line is
this my friend, if you want to be true to yourself and really determine if the
carriage has been placed in front of the horse in your case with Mr. or Ms.
Committed, then stop listening to their promises and exaggerated talk, now
begin to mentally compare what they have said with the disciplines of life and
this is how you will determine that their talk of commitment is just that, a
talk and far from a reality.
"Ye shall know
them by their fruits" Matthew 7:16.
Written By: Kevin L A
Ewing
kevinewing@coralwave.com
kevinlaewing.blogspot.com
