Good morning…
Guiding wisdom lingers from this week’s walk with a friend. “Doing the hard thing now eventually makes life easy. Doing the easy thing now eventually makes life hard.”
It is easy to do the easy thing. Avoid pain. React impulsively. Lie, cheat, shortcut. Skirt commitment to God, true self, and others.
It is hard to do the hard thing. Grieve loss. Resist temptation. Offer life-giving care to those in need. Take time to converse daily with our ever-present God.
“These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock.
“But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards” (Matthew 7:24-27, MSG).
Digging into sandy beach is easy. Anchoring into solid rock is hard, time-consuming, an everyday commitment. Today, when making choices, we are wise to remember life’s important paradox: “Doing the hard thing makes life easy. Doing the easy thing makes life hard.”
…Sue…
