I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try and please everybody.
Bill Cosby
You are going to try many different things in your life. At some things you will be a master and at some you will be less than average. Trying new things helps you to figure out who you are and what calling God has on your lives.
In the midst of the "trying" you must always take care to see what God is truly calling you to do.
A variety of people will want you to do a variety of different things - of course they will you are amazing! But it is up to you to decipher what is good and right with God and what is not. Mr. Cosby had it right - "the key to failure is to try and please everybody."
Part of growing up, of becoming an adult, is to chose wisely the activities and the people with whom you associate. Sometimes it will seem that you do not have a choice but to follow along with a group - to do something you know is wrong - but you always have a choice. Making the right choice may not make you popular, but it will lead to wisdom.
Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
(Proverbs 19:20)
Gaining wisdom is often the road less traveled. Being wise isn't touted amongst teenagers as the coolest thing to be - but you are only a teenager for seven years. You are an adult for decades. Wisdom is a skill that comes through being mature enough to accept advice from wise counselors and friends. Wisdom is knowing Whose you are. You are God's child; His chosen child. With each decision you make your place in His family should be foremost in your mind.
Life isn't always easy, but choices can be, if you seek out God's will in the action. God has given you an internal gauge to know when something is right or wrong - - you know if what you are doing is God's will or not.
Maybe you are saying that your gauge seems to be malfunctioning because you always seem to make the wrong choices - - the best way to recalibrate your gauge is to seek out the Word of God; to study His words through the Bible, to attend worship regularly, to surround yourself with other Christians who will hold you accountable.
Wisdom in life isn't an easily acquired skill, but it is a skill which will serve you well all the days of your life.
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Fun Fact:
This is more of a random fact: no piece of 8 1/2 by 11 paper can be folded in half more than seven times....go ahead I know you are going to try...I'll wait....
Question of the Day:
What is the best thing you learned last week?
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