Discipline Determines Destiny

Written by Pastor Brock Meyer Monday, 09 June 2008 00:00

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written by Pastor Brock Meyer

I am determined to not let life slip past me any longer. I will not look back upon my life with regret. I will not be satisfied with the ordinary, the mundane, or the average. I will not live on emotions or whims. I will no longer live only with what I have and without all that I do not. I will contend for the faith; I will contend for the fullness. Period. And this is how: I will establish and maintain spiritual disciplines. I will be undaunted in reading the Word, unceasing in prayer, and regular in fasting. I will seek the secrets of silence and solitude, the gems of journaling, and the salary of good stewardship. I will be relentless, and I will persevere. I will be disciplined.

Discipline is the key to unlocking the impossible for it knows not how to fail. It presses past pains in our past; it will not be dulled by the success of our present and will not be swayed at the uncertainties of the future. Ah, discipline: the silent hero, the unseen fire, the quiet legend. It is birthed behind the scenes and lives in the background, but o' how boastfully does it display its results! Discipline is what makes the normal extraordinary, the average into the epitome. It takes raw material and makes it a masterpiece. It takes a person the world would write off and turns them into one who decides what the world will write. It exchanges the monotony of existence for a monopoly of abundance. Discipline separates those who live from those who simply die, the haves from the have-nots, the doers from those who talked about it. Discipline: the quality behind a quality and the motivator for motivation.

What would we as the youth of this generation look like if we had this transplant from a heart of toleration, mediocrity, and lethargy to that of a determined, unbending, unshakeable heart of discipline? I telll you we would not be dictated our role and rights in our schools but establish them. We would not struggle with sharing our faith but speak the Word boldly and with power! We would not dream and beg for signs and wonders but walk in the fullness of them. We wouldn't only read Bible stories, we would live them! We would be Daniels in the Babylon of our schools and jobs; we would be John the Baptists in the wildernesses of worldliness that surrounds us; we would be the Moses of our day leading our friends and peers out of the captivity of carnality that has captured their hearts. Friends, we must rise to the occasion, for destiny, greatness, and a dying generation await our response. We were called for this life: to know Christ and to establish His Kingdom on earth. This is our purpose. We were made to be disciplined.