Oh the things we are going to do! How many times have you said to yourself or someone else, "I'm going to..." In our mind we see no roadblocks, no turns, and no reason why we shouldn't succeed at whatever we set our hearts and minds to accomplishing. And that's true. There shouldn't be a reason you can't do anything you set your mind to doing. But intending to do something, expecting to do something, and wanting to do something are all considerably different from actually doing it. We've been told so much that if we want to achive something, we have to believe it will happen. Some of us get the cart before the horse though, and start talking as though the dream has been realized-- even going so far as to convince ourselves it has. And what of the dream? It fades. Then our speech takes a turn. It goes to: I would've, I could've, I should've...
So go after it, but have reality checks along the way.
Readings: 1 Kings 20:1-21:29; Acts 12:24-13:15; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 17:16
