Yes, you have your priorities for the year and yes you are working on balancing the meaningful tasks verses the trivial, but what about the attitude that goes along with it? At the beginning it’s easy to be motivated to spend time on areas that mean the most to us, yet what happens when the flame gets smaller and the fire that once burned has slowly lost it’s glow? What happens when our attitude toward God has less dependence upon him and more on our attitude that we don’t need him as much right now? Then what are our options?

I happened to be eating lunch last week at a local deli when one of my past exercise clients came and sat down by me and proceeded to bore me with all her excuses for not taking care of her self. Maybe she caught me on a bad day, but my compassion cup was empty and I had a short fuse that day. I kindly interrupted her half way through her spiel and said to her in the most polite way possible, “Susan (not her real name) stop right there. Stop making excuses for your bad health. Talk to me about anything else if you like, but you and everyone else who continues to make up reasons for not doing something will never change until? Until you have absolutely no other options left in life. But, until you reach that point of no return don’t take up my time with your bad attitude and self-pity. Put actions to your empty words. I Samuel 3:19 says,” and the Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words hit the ground.” In other words, every single word that falls from your lips has weight and meaning. You can make up excuses (or create options) or you can move forward either way you will get out of life what you say.

Now that might sound harsh, but it’s the truth, not only in exercise, but also in our spiritual walk with Christ as well. Our lives will continue to be the way they are until we get to the point maybe down on our knees and say to God, “No excuse is good enough, I can’t turn back I need you in my life there are no more options available and can not and will not live a second more with out you.”

Lance Armstrong the famous Tour De France bike racer who is also a cancer survivor writes in his most recent book entitled, Every Second Counts, “ Each day not only on my bike, but with my wife, children and those I love, I live with the attitude that it can all end in a second and with that, every second does counts for something and failure is not an option.”

Where are you in your attitude toward Christ? Do you make excuses? Do you explore other easier options in life? This year make a difference!!! Remember, every second counts and failure is not an option!!!

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