There is a price to be paid when seeking results that are
significant. In order to reach our dreams, aspirations, and
goals in life or any other area requires two main ingredients.
The first ingredient is process, and the second is results.
Process is important because it provides the details of how
you will reach your goals and dreams. Results are important
because you can gauge how well you worked through the planned
process, and what changes you need to make to continue moving
forward. However, depending upon what we do and how we do it,
the results can be significant or insignificant. If you are
any thing like me and other people I know, all the fuss about
the process is meaningful, but I am more interested in the results,
and I want them now! There are others who are more interested
in the process, and even that has to be significant for them.
Whether you are more interested in the process or the results,
they both have to be significant. In addition, it doesn't matter
if your dreams and aspirations are big or small, anyone who
is looking forward results wants the results to be significant.
Would you agree with me? Its one thing to get results, but in
order to get significant results, there must be significant
steps taken. "Significant results require significant steps."
Lets examine the results of a person who got significant results
in everything He did. His name is Jesus. He and His Father had
put together a plan and a process whereby mankind could be forgiven
of every wrongful act carried out on earth. This process would
include Jesus leaving His heavenly domain to come to His earthly
domain called earth. Would
you agree with me that Jesus took significant steps to get the
results that he was after by leaving His home (heaven) to come
to earth? Not only would He come to earth, but He
would come and have to go through the same process every human
being goes through. He started his life as a baby until He matured
into an adult. This is what we call process. It was important
that He did not skip any phases that humans would go through,
in order that He would be able to identify with various aspects
of life.
As He pressed His way through life, there was one thing that
was always in the back of His mind that He had to do in order
to get the results that He and the Father had planned. He had
to die. For most people death is an inevitable event and cannot
be avoided. For others their entire life is spent trying to
do everything possible to stay here on earth. Not Jesus, He
knew from the beginning that if He were going to make sure that
all of mankind would be forgiven of their sins and granted the
opportunity to go back home with Him, death was inevitable and
unavoidable. Would
you agree with me that dying on the cross was a significant
step taken to get the results Jesus was after? continue
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This article is written by Pastor Shelby C. Grant and permission
to use this article is granted on the basis of proper acknowledgment
of the author.
