For the man who wants to climb the character ladder more than
the corporate one, this book “FINISHING STRONG” by Steve Farrar, is an
essential tool.
I strongly recommend reading this book.
If you need
to finish strong “Stay close to a friend”
Stay close
to a friend who loves you enough to tell you when you are screwing up and who
will never violate a confidence.
Remember, sin
always tends to make us blind to our own faults. We need a friend to stop us
from deceiving ourselves that what we are doing is not so bad after all. We
need a friend to help us overcome our low self-image, inflated self-importance,
selfishness, pride, our deceitful nature (Hebrew 3:12-13), our dangerous
fantasies and so much else. If you don’t have daily encouragement, you could be
deceived by sin. You could get hard and begin to turn away from the Lord.
Friendship of this kind isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.
May be you
have a friendship that has grown a little distant. Why don’t you call your
friend up and take him to lunch? Do a little friendship repair. All you probably
need to do is to change the oil or replace a few points and plugs. Whatever it
needs, fix it! If he doesn’t want to fix it, then move on to someone who is
willing to be a friend.
There’s an
old Scottish proverb that says,
“He who ceases to be your friend never was a
good one”.
For
example, if you don’t maintain any other friendship, start with your wife. Maintain
that one. She knows you like a book, or at least she should. Perhaps you need
to take off tinfoil and let her see your heart. All of it! A woman who is
allowed to see inside her husband’s heart is a woman who will become a friend
for life.
Remain
blessed!
