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Well, maybe you’re not, but I am.
And sometimes that’s the hard truth you have to come to in order to be productive and ultimately successful in the world you’re in. Get out of your head and stop being detrimental to your progress.
The Past Three Weeks
As you’ve seen, my last substantial post (or last post in general) was Valentine’s Day. I called myself taking a sabbatical, if you will, a hiatus. But the truth of the matter is…I was being lazy.
I know you aren’t going to fault me for not having some kind of post up each day as I had been doing, but if that’s what I was beginning to make you expect then I should have the decency to keep it up. The problem is I don’t like work. Tailor Made was starting to become work and needed a little more attention and elbow grease and effort on my part than I initially imagined it would.
Trust me, I tried to blame a lot of things and make a grip of excuses, but once I ran the gamut of excuses nothing really stuck besides the fact that I let my perfectionistic attitude yet again hinder me from completing or enduring a project.
Be Ye Perfect
The Bible admonishes the children of God to be perfect even as He is perfect, yet I don’t think He’s telling us to be as meticulous and neurotic as I am about things.
This is my mantra: if I can’t get something done the ideal way, the perfect way, then don’t even bother with it. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy for me to be single. Maybe that’s why I stress at work. Maybe that’s why I’ve had to battle, I have to battle depression because if I can’t meet my goal, as idealistic and great as it is, then I must be a loser! Now that’s some truth for you.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m far from OCD (some of my friends would disagree), and I’m not what you would call anal (dare you disagree?); I just like what I like how I like it.
Tailor Made’s A Joke
My plans for the blog were/are magnificent. I know exactly what kind of content that I want to provide to you, yet I won’t provide it totally because it requires a little research, a little digging, a little more construction, a little more prayer and I realize that I have to give it all I’ve got or nothing at all.
Who cares that I don’t have internet at home and work has gotten slightly busier (I’m cranking this out right before I go to lunch), and my car has broken down, and I left my phone charger in Nashville, and… how is that an excuse for not providing you with substantial content relevant to Tailor Made’s purpose. It isn’t. I’ve got to stop being lazily perfect, and just do it. Do the research. Write the post. Drive and/or walk and/or catch the bus to a wi-fi spot. Spend the night at a friend’s house, if need be.
And I will, because I think you’re worth it.
What’s the last “hard” conversation you had with yourself?
Jewelry Box: 1 Timothy 6
Honor Masters
1 Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. 2 And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
Error and Greed
3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5 useless wranglings[a] of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.[b]
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain[c] we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
The Good Confession
11 But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
Instructions to the Rich
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Guard the Faith
20 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— 21 by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
1 Timothy 6 (New King James Version)