Lacking Things…
Bringing clarity to an overwhelmed mind in business and in life…
“We lack nothing but will lack those things we believe we lack.”
Over the past few days I have been thinking about a conversation that I was having with one of my great friends. It was the type of conversation I needed to both hear and participate in. Not so much participate by talking but listening with the intentions to put these things into practice. As much as the outside world has been very active lately the inside of me is quiet. I’m not quiet in the sense that I am having this deep intellectual thought process. To be honest it has been the opposite in that it has just been more moments of being quiet wanting to understand first before I do something. This has been one of the things I have been putting into practice, taking a moment. As much as the outside world has been very active lately the inside of me is quiet, pausing and taking a moment. As much as I was out chasing the world and its things, I was missing some things that belonged to me that needed to be put into practice. Discipline, obedience, honesty, and trust were a few things that were lacking any value in my life, because they weren’t being consistently practiced.
My great friend and I a few days ago were talking while he was cutting my hair and he goes to say that we really lack nothing. As long as we believe that and stand on His word, His firm foundation we lack nothing. As we continued our conversation this thought comes to my mind in that “We lack nothing but will lack those things we believe we lack.” As much as I wanted my thought process to be focused on money and other byproducts of life, I couldn’t. I wanted more money and things, but I didn’t lack those things. When you apply good work ethic one is given a great chance to receive some form of monetary pay. So, I couldn’t honestly say I lacked those things but there were some things of good character I was lacking. I was lacking things such as discipline, honesty, and trust. Over the past few years I have been focused on working on the things that I was not consistently portraying. It’s not that I lacked good character but that I am trying to be more consistent with portraying the right character. As much as I may want to chase the byproducts of life it’s not the best first step. Lacking those things that help to form the right character: discipline, honesty, and trust are some steps that are needed first before the byproducts will be used right.
With failed business attempts sometimes my ego was checked and it would cause more damage than I thought. With a successful business attempt sometimes my ego was checked and it would cause more damage than I thought. No matter if the money was pouring in or pouring out it didn’t matter at the end of the day. The money wasn’t staying in hopes to be put to work to generate more money. I was lacking discipline, honesty, and trust a few things needed in order to help a resource grow. I was able to generate money that went to pay for bills and I was able to generate money that was spent on supplies. I was and still am working on those things that will help resources grow. The resource of money does me absolutely no good if I don’t know how to us the thing. Staying disciplined to The Plan, remaining honest with myself and my community, and trusting that I deserve these valuable things and know how to put them to work. Those are a few things I need to keep with me and keep practicing.
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1:2-4)
