One of my favorite quotes about success is from E.M. Gray, who said, “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”
I like that quote because it gets at the essence of why so many people never experience God’s best for their lives. They are flimsy and short sighted. They simply live for the moment, driven by appetites and following the path of least resistance. They will not force themselves to do the right thing when they don’t feel like it. But in the long run, failing to subordinate those impulses and bring them under the control of God’s Spirit leads to ruin.
Remember the quote, “The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” That will help you redeem the time.
Rick Grubbs is best known as the host of “Redeeming the Time,” a one-minute radio program featured on hundreds of radio outlets around the world. He has spoken thousands of times on Biblical time management in all 50 states and 26 other countries. He is the author of the book “Morning Momentum: God’s plan for launching an unstoppable day”. He and his wife Carrie live in Salisbury NC with several of their 12 children.
