{"id":23932,"date":"2022-10-27T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-pakad-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:05:18","slug":"2022-donotdo","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2022-donotdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a \u201cDon\u2019t Do\u201d List"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY RICK WARREN<\/p>\n

Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: \u2018Give careful thought to your ways.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Haggai 1:5 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After you\u2019ve gone through a challenging season, you\u2019ll eventually be ready to resume life again. But as you do, you should keep a few principles in mind. As we\u2019ve talked about the last few days, you should expect to feel mixed emotions and also take time to extract the lessons you\u2019ve learned from the hard time. And here\u2019s another thing you should do:\u00a0Evaluate everything.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Whether you\u2019re returning to life after a pandemic, a divorce, an illness, or another time of great fear or loss, don\u2019t automatically say, \u201cWell, I\u2019m just going to do everything the way I\u2019ve always done it.\u201d Why? Because hardship changes people. You\u2019re not the same person after a trauma that you were before.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of returning to the same old patterns, behaviors, and habits, God wants to give you an opportunity to reset your life. There are likely some things you were doing before the hard times that you shouldn\u2019t start up again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the ancient Jews resumed \u201cnormal life\u2019 after being in captivity, the prophet Haggai had a message for them:\u00a0\u201c<\/i><\/span>Now this is what the L<\/i><\/span>ORD<\/i><\/span>\u00a0Almighty says: \u2018Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>\u00a0(Haggai 1:5-6 NIV).<\/span><\/p>\n

Haggai\u2019s words seem like metaphors of dissatisfaction: I keep eating, but I\u2019m still hungry; I keep drinking, but I\u2019m still thirsty. In other words, if what you did before the hard times was so unfulfilling, why go back to it?<\/span><\/p>\n

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One way you can\u00a0\u201cgive careful thought to your ways<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>\u00a0is to make a \u201cdon\u2019t do\u201d list\u2014not a \u201cto do\u201d list. Some things you used to do aren\u2019t necessarily wrong\u2014such as spending a lot of time on things like social media, watching television, or shopping. You just don\u2019t need to resume them because they\u2019re not necessary. So add them to your \u201cdon\u2019t do\u201d list.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a hard season, God wants to rebuild your life and make it better and healthier than it ever was before. But you have a part in that too. You need to take time to evaluate everything before you head back into the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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