I went to school to have a document signed by my HOD. What I didn't expect was to walk out of his office with something far more valuable than a signature. While we were discussing, he paused and said something that stayed with me long after I left: "In the next ten years of your life, a whole lot of things would change. Things will never be the same." Then he backed it up with his own life. In less than ten years, he had published ten academic books — a milestone most academics spend an entire career chasing. He said it matter-of-factly, not to boast, but to make a point. And that point is, time, when used with intention, does something extraordinary to a life. I walked out of his office and couldn't stop thinking about that very simple truth. However, I did what he did — looking back at my past 10 years. And what I found quietly undid me. Ten years ago, I was a teenager who didn't even know Christ yet. My conversion came the year after...
Sincerely, I need you to pay attention to what I'm about to say because I've been where you are, countless times. I know what it feels like to wake up and feel nothing. No fire. No drive. No reason to get out of the bed except that the bed isn't going to pay your bills or get the work done for you. You're not lazy. I need you to hear that before anything else. You're just tired. There's a difference, and most people never teach you the difference, so you grow up calling yourself lazy when really you're just a person whose well ran dry and nobody showed you how to dig deeper. This is not another conventional article that motivates you, only for it to wear out the second you're back to reality. What I'm going to give you here has roots that goes back thousands of years before which have held up prophets, kings, and tired people just like you and me. I'm going to give you the WORD. Stay with me cause you might be blown away. First, let...