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“You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life (p. 110). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

It is so true that many people settle for less than what God has in mind for their life. 

Erwin says, “Be careful of embracing the type of spirituality that has a deep disdain for ambition and hides apathy behind a language of simplicity. If you want to live a simple life, that’s a beautiful thing. If you want to use it as an excuse to live beneath your God-given capacity, that is negligence.”

He goes on, “I have always thought it was odd that people who can create wealth would consider it more spiritual to choose a life of poverty. Poor people don’t choose to be poor. Those who are trapped in poverty do not choose to be trapped in poverty. We do not help the world by choosing to be less or do less; we help the world by choosing to be more and give more. There is no virtue in being given ten talents but choosing to be satisfied with living as if we had only one talent.”

He then says, “I wonder how many of us will find ourselves in a conversation with the Creator of the universe asking us, ‘Why did you settle for less? Why did you allow your weaknesses to define who you are? Why didn’t you act as if your life depended on it? Why did you give up on life? Why did you give up on me?’”


Good questions, good questions, aren't they?
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