Encouragement
The Outlier is a book written by Malcolm Gladwell and it is one of the best selling books on the New York times. I did not get a chance to read through the entire book, but one thing in the book got my attention. In this book, the writer shares something about the 10,000 hours rule. He tells great things can be accompolished in this world if we put our efforts for 10,00 hours. It can be in any field. It translates to 2 hours daily for 10 yrs and the duration of years gets reduced if more hours are put in every day.
He goes on to quote about Bill Gates, The Beatles, and about his personal experience as well. Everything sounds great!. On reading this, I got a revelation. People were able to accompolish so many worldly things by putting these mammoth efforts. But, the Lord opened my eyes to this wonderful thought. If we could spend 2 hours a day with our Lord, How great that would be?. The greatest privelage one can get is to communicate with the maker of this universe. The greatest acheivement is to proclaim the gospel to a soul that is heading towards the hell. We can be sure that the reward in heaven for such an act would easily surpass all the earthly honors.
If we spend time with the Lord daily, We would know Him better. Knowing God is the greatest thing that we can ever imagine. The apostle Paul puts it this way in Phillipians 3:4-9
"If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith"
It is a different thing to know about God, but Knowing God is something special. It is like this, we all read about famous personalities and their life. But it is different to know them personally and have friendship with them. We must know God and for that we need to spend time with Him. Let us give our time to God, whatever possible,may be 15 mins a day atleast. This would change us completely. We will never remain the same. God would make us more than conquerers in everything.
By Brucelin Kithion
http://seeklifepurpose.blogspot.com/
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