{"id":1716,"date":"2010-03-21T15:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2010-03-21T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:52:59","slug":"today-the-gathering-i-will-live-courageously-why-it%e2%80%99s-always-right-to-do-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-i-will-live-courageously-why-it%e2%80%99s-always-right-to-do-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: I Will Live Courageously (Why it\u2019s always right to do right)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes we think we are the only ones who live in a world where we constantly face fear, frustration, and futility.\u00a0 But nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

There is no way to grow out of the need to respond to the challenges of life, to compromise, do wrong, or demean ourselves.\u00a0 It\u2019s a challenge, a temptation every day; a challenge that requires courage – everyday courage – the courage that you must have to be who you were created to be.<\/p>\n

To illustrate this kind of everyday courage, we looked at the life of Joshua today; that great leader in training, a guy who for forty years stood in the shadow of the greatest leader ever known.\u00a0 And yet the day came; the phone call that he had dreaded: Moses was dead.\u00a0 You are now the president, the CEO, the leader.\u00a0 All of a sudden the leader\u2019s job looked more daunting and terrifying than it had the day before.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it true about life?\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to look at people, to criticize and bring commentary on the way they live their lives and make decisions.\u00a0 But when it\u2019s you or me in the cross hairs of leadership it\u2019s a whole other story.\u00a0 Today we talked about courage in three ways.<\/p>\n

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  1. Sometimes you need the courage it takes to line up<\/em>. <\/strong>By that I mean to actually get up and get into the game.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to criticize the football team or the basketball team or those who are doing their best when you are a spectator.\u00a0 But it\u2019s when you become not just a participant but the one who leads the action, who\u2019s responsible for the outcome, that life becomes a whole different thing. You were created to suit up, show up, and do the next right thing.\u00a0 Why has God gone to all the trouble it\u2019s taken to create you, to give you birth and sustain your life if He didn\u2019t have something very important and strategic for you to do?\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 Are you lining up?\u00a0 Are you on the playing field, suited up, ready to go?<\/li>\n
  2. Courage requires that we look up<\/em>.<\/strong> If you look within or around or behind, you\u2019ll be dismayed.\u00a0 But if you look up, you\u2019ll be inspired.\u00a0 God is with us.\u00a0 The Scriptures tell us He will never leave us or forsake us.\u00a0 As He promised to be with Moses, so He promised to be with Joshua, so He promises to be with each one of us if we open our hearts and invite Him in.<\/li>\n
  3. At all times courage means that we listen up<\/em>.<\/strong> We need to listen to what God says is right and wrong.\u00a0 We often think we need to hear the voice of God when in truth we\u2019ve already heard it.\u00a0 We have Ten Commandments, many promises, and even warnings; things to stay away from, things that God hates, and things that God loves.\u00a0 And the truth is, if we obey Him, if we listen to His word, and we line up our lives behind His truth, and look up to Him for divine help and strength, the Scriptures promise that our life will be a success.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you feel like a failure, if you feel like your life isn\u2019t going anywhere, if you feel like God is a million miles away, maybe you need to line up, look up, and listen up.\u00a0 Just these three simple decisions could save your life forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sometimes we think we are the only ones who live in a world where we constantly face fear, frustration, and futility.\u00a0 But nothing could be further from the truth. There is no way to grow out of the need to respond to the challenges of life, to compromise, do wrong, or demean ourselves.\u00a0 It\u2019s a … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering: I Will Live Courageously (Why it\u2019s always right to do right)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}