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A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life (p. 176). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Here is the whole thought, “So often you blame God for the life you have, but you do not know what life you want.”   Is that true of you?   Do you know what you really want to give your life to? Earlier Erwin says, “What I learned from twenty years of indecisiveness is that you will either define yourself or be defined by others. You will either choose your life or live a life that was never meant to be yours. How you end is profoundly affected by how you begin. You never begin the journey of creating the life you want until you know what you want. It’s only when you know what you want that you can say no to everything that wants you. I’ve seen it over and over again. You will never get what you want until you know what you want.” Again, Erwin said, “So often you b

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life (p. 147). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Of course, you know that Jesus, the Son of God didn’t even go it alone.  He had twelve friends/followers who were with him all the time.  Erwin says, “You might begin the journey alone, but the place where God is taking you is a land called Together. If you have ever felt that you are living beneath your potential or that the greatness God has placed within you is yet to be realized, then I would tell you that the most common cause of living beneath our capacity is that we have chosen to walk alone rather than to walk together. You will never sustain greatness or fulfill your God-given calling if you see people as an obstacle to your destiny rather than as essential to fulfilling God’s purpose in your life.” He continues, “It’s odd how we prioritize the thi

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus from his book, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life (p. 126). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I understand the difficulties of facing the future.   To many, the unknown is always scary and it can also be viewed as the present over and over and that makes it bad if their present is bad.     But Erwin says, “We must believe there is a future worth fighting for. We simply can’t fight the future. The future is coming whether we like it or not. In fact, there is nothing we can do to stop it from coming. This doesn’t mean we are powerless when it comes to the future, but it does mean we have to take a different stance toward engaging it.” He goes on, “You can’t fight the future, but you can create the future. To fight the future is to ensure that you will be lost and left behind to the past. For some, the idea of standing your ground is a desperate resolution to