Charles R. Swindoll - Dear Graduate: Letters of Wisdom
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Dear Graduate: Letters of Wisdom from Charles Swindoll
2007 Charles R. Swindoll, Inc .
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Scripture quotations used in this book are from The New American Standard Bible (nasb). Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, and 1995 by the Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)
All text originally appeared in Living Above the Level of Mediocrity by Charles R. Swindoll
Charles R. Swindoll, Inc ., 1987, 1989.
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Graduation marks an ending and a beginning. There are smiles, hugs, tears, shouts of joy, and caps sailing high into the air along with hopes and dreams. It is a time of celebration, excitement, and full-throttle enthusiasm.
Great word, enthusiasm. Its Greek origin is entheos, God in. It is the ability to see God in a situation that makes it exciting. Do you know that God is watching your life? Do you realize that? Something happens to us when we become convinced that God our heavenly Father is aware of and involved in our activities and is, in fact, applauding our lives.
Think of all you have accomplished to this point. Try to imagine the horizons and challenges of your future. As you mentally travel from the vanishing point of yesterday to the vanishing point of tomorrow you will find that God has been and always will be present. There is not a place in the entire scope of your existence where God is not there. There is purpose, there is meaning in the presence of God. Even in the things we may consider pointless, insignificant, trivial, or boring. Talk about an exciting thought!
Today may be the first day you realized that your heavenly Father is watching you in life. He is not absent, unconcerned, blind, deaf, or dead. He is watching because He cares. That can make all the difference in the world. Especially in a world where mediocrity calls the cadence... where quality and integrity and authenticity are negotiables.
Call me a dreamer, but Im convinced that achieving ones full potential is still a goal worth striving forthat excellence is still worth pursuing even if most yawn and a few sneer. While there may not be millions out there who think like this, there are still a few... a very important few. You are probably among them.
Therefore, as you graduate, Id like to challenge you to follow Gods best. More specifically, to live a God-enthused life. Thats the purpose of these letters. They come from my heart to yours. I am excited for you, because I have unlimited expectations for your lifeand, more importantly, unwavering faith in the One who can accomplish them.
Dear Graduate
Life is a lot like a coin; you can
spend it any way you wish, but
you can spend it only once.
Choosing one thing over all the
rest throughout life is a difficult
thing to do. This is especially true
when the choices are so many and
the possibilities are so close.
To be completely truthful with you, however, we arent left with numerous possibilities. Jesus Himself gave us the top priority:
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you (Matt. 6:33).
He said, in effect, This is your priority; this comes first.
If I am to seek first in my life Gods kingdom and Gods righteousness, then whatever else I do ought to relate to that goal: where I work, with whom I spend my time, the one I marry, or the decision to remain single. Every decision I make ought to be filtered through the Matthew 6:33 filter: where I put my money, where and how I spend my time, what I buy, what I sell, what I give away.
Living out the kingdom life means that everything must remain before the throne and under the authority of the ruler. Everything must be held loosely.
What tangibles are you holding onto? What are you gripping tightly? Have they become your security? Are you a slave to some image? Some name youre trying to live up to? Some job? Some possession? Some person? Let me give you a tip. If you cannot let it go, its a priority to you. It is impossible to be a slave to things or people and at the same time be a faithful servant of God.
Life places before us hundreds of possibilities. Some are bad. Many are good. A few, the best. But each of us must decide, What is my choice? What is my reason for living? In other words, What priority takes first place in my life?
Dear Graduate
We need heroes.
I mean genuine heroes,
authentic men and women
who are admired
for their achievements,
noble qualities, and courage.
Such people arent afraid
to be different. They risk.
They stand a cut above.
Yet they are real human beings with flaws and failures like anyone else. But they inspire us to do better. We feel warm inside when we think about this rare breed of humanity. The kind we can look up to without the slightest suspicion of deception or hypocrisy. The kind who model excellence when no one is looking or for that matter when half the world is looking.
Im concerned that we seem to be running shy of folks like that. Certainly, there are some, but not nearly as many, it seems, as when I was a small boy. Back then I distinctly recall looking up to numerous people in various segments of societypolitics, athletics, education, science, the military, music, religion, aviationall of whom not only stood tall during their heyday, but they finished well. Society mourned their passing. This was no childhood fantasy, you understand; these were not make-believe movie idols. I can still remember my dad being just as impressed as I was with certain folksmaybe more so. Some of our father-son conversations are still logged in my memory bank. And because he was inspired, so was I.
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