Last week I was on a treadmill (one of those machines that take you nowhere but promises you that you are losing all those calories and running all those miles, yeah right!). During my workout I saw the attached videos (featured on ESPN) on the overhead mega screens. I do not want to say too much as the videos nearly say it all. You will want to watch BOTH attached videos to get the whole story. (Plan on about 10 minutes, well worth it!! If you have technology problems, these videos can be seen directly on youtube under SC firefighter or by clicking on the video picture directly).
I do however want to make two observations. First observation, we live in an age where "entitlement thinking" runs rampant. Entitlement thinking says (entitlement thinkers as a rule, do not know they have this going on in their brains), "Because I did 'Y' I should get 'Z'." Another way of saying this could be, "Because I graduated from...I attended...I know...I did....they owe me something." Key lesson: when anyone has entitlement thinking as a mental operating system in their brain they leave God out of their lives. Bottom line, stay away from entitlement thinking. Second observation: when things do not go your way, when you do not get the date, the job, the spouse, the bid on the job, the acceptance to a school...these are all opportunities for you to find a way to suck it up. When things do not go your way you will need to draw on a level of courage that you can only imagine but, a courage that God has placed within you. I will shut up now. I hope the videos reach your heart in a similar way that they reached mine....
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