Welcome to the blog of Pastor Alton Stone, from Simpsonville, SC. Pastor Stone is a retired Ordained Bishop of The Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee with over 45 years of pastoral ministry.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Stuck between a rock and a hard place

-Have you been more focused on not failing than actually succeeding?

-Are you are comfortable with mediocrity rather than try because it’s safer?  B

-Is it because it’s easier to talk about learning that new skill as opposed to actually learning it? 

-Is it because you think everything is too hard or too complicated so you will just “sit this one out,” or maybe you’ll “do it someday?” 

-Do you hate your present job so badly, but won’t apply for a new one because it’s easier to reject the possibility of rejection?

Snap out of it! Wake Up! Do something about it while you can!

Instead of sitting around failing to try, you really need to be out there trying to fail, challenging yourself, learning new things and failing forward as fast as possible.  Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure.  Because if you are too afraid of failure, you can’t possibly do what needs to be done to be successful. Really, that's when you becomes satisfied with mediocrity and nothing mediocre really ever turns out good. It's either not hot enough or not cold enough. It's kind of stuck in between.

John the Revelator said this in Revelation 3:15, 16 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth."

I don't want to be stuck in the middle between blessing and cursing or struck between a rock and a hard place. I'll take the blessing part anytime, but I can only do so by trying to do my best. So can you.

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