Keeping Your Bearings
Theme of the Week: Your Driving Force
Sunday, September 9, 2007
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Who Said It…Greg Bourgond
Greg Bourgond spent 10 years in the defense industry and commercial business, and then 14 years in various ministry positions. He's completed 30 years of active and reserve duty as a naval officer. Greg is now the vice president for operations and strategic initiatives at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. His hobbies are racquetball, hiking, and fishing.
What He Said…Keeping Your Bearings
According to one management guru, we either live by a clock or by a compass. The clock represents our obligations and plans—things that drive our behavior and condition our responses toward success. The compass represents our beliefs and motives—what we feel should lead our lives toward significance.
To keep on course, we must constantly be mindful of the influences on the direction of our lives. If we're arriving at destinations we didn't expect or desire, perhaps our bearings are off. Our compass needs calibration. Over time, the hull of a ship builds up magnetism that interferes with the ship's compass. To remove this interference, a ship passes over special coils in the ocean floor.
Similarly, our internal compass must be periodically demagnetized if we're to continue our journey along accurate bearings. The coils, in this analogy, are the Bible. We must allow God's Word to bring us into alignment with Christ and live a value-centered life with godliness at the core. Our behavior reflects what's stored in our hearts.
Finally, submit to mentors. They'll help keep us on course.
Adapted from Life@Work Journal (1-2/00) by permission.
Copyright © 2007 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine. Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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