Doing and Being

Trust in the Lord and do good.
              —Psalm 37:3

The graduating class decided to write in their yearbook what they wanted to be doing in twenty years. Entries included playing professional football, practicing medicine in Hawaii, and being a foreign news correspondent.

How about you? What do you want to be doing in twenty years—or ten, five, or one?

The most important thing is not what you will do but how you will do it.

So, here’s a second and more important question: What do you want to be at the end of the time frame you chose? What you want to do isn’t as important as what you should be.

“What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).

At the end of the chapter,
what do you want to be?

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