Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
Interpretation
Understanding your identity in Christ helps maintain emotional stability through life's ups and downs.
In this quote, Benjamin Watson emphasizes the importance of grounding one's identity in Christ rather than in external circumstances such as job stability or financial success. By doing so, individuals can achieve a sense of inner peace and resilience, which shields them from the emotional turmoil that often accompanies life's fluctuating events, like job loss or promotions.
In practice
During a motivational speech about resilience in the workplace.
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
We need to look at truth. We need to look at justice, and we need to look at righteousness. And let that be our guide going forward.
By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.
Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
To be wise and eke to love,_x000D_ _x000D_ Is granted scarce to gods above.
As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
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