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Welcome! I’m Ester, and I am passionate about empowering Christian women to deepen their relationship with God and live a purposeful life! Find out more

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Do you feel mediocre while others seem to succeed? You can learn a lot from Olympic athletes. Even the Bible uses the image of athletes to illustrate how determined we need to be to fulfil our calling. Here’s why.

Watching the Olympics, I have realised why I keep failing to reach my goals (most of them at least). First, I have a tendency to set myself too many goals each year (or month). On top of that, many important things come up along the way, and they too need my attention. In the end, my life is cluttered with many secondary things.

Nature shows us that pain and difficulties can lead to something good. In John 15:1-2 Jesus compares his Father to a vinedresser who prunes the branches, so they bear fruit. When vine is allowed to grow freely and is never pruned, it will end up with plenty of leaves. It will look beautifully. But it will not produce fruit. In order for vine to produce fruit, the vinedresser needs to prune it each year. The pruning throws the vine into a stressful situation - a crisis. Its life is under threat and so it goes into “survival mode”: it produces fruit to ensure that it will live on.

A loss or a crisis is never the end. There is always a tomorrow. And to a great extent, it is our perspective and our choices that determine what that tomorrow will look like. Perpetually mourning over the loss will not bring back what was lost. It will only lead to disappointment and bitterness. Even by holding a grudge, we cannot change the past. We cannot correct the mistakes we made, make the wrong we suffered as though it did not happen. And we cannot get back those years we wasted.

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