FINISHING STRONG

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!