If we live a self-directed, ...

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we\'re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it\'s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it\'s because we\'re focused on ourselves!
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

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Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
I had received Christ as my savior when I was a child, but I didn't know anything. I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years. And that's really what discipleship is. It's helping people.
Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.