What Is Your Excuse?

Question to think about: What excuses do you make when it comes to changing something in your life?

I listened to a discussion between a teenage son and his father. The father asked the son if a specific chore had been completed. The boy listed the reasons of why the chore had not been done. The father listed the son's consequences.

We all do it . . . we make excuses . . . why we keep doing something . . . why we haven't done something . . . why we are unable to do something. Making excuses to yourself and others will not remedy anything. There are consequences for our excuses which often impact others as well as ourselves.

Jesus asked a sick man if he wanted to get well . . . the man made excuses:
"I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get there, someone else always gets in ahead of me." (John 5:7, NLT)

The sick man justified his unhealthy way of living by making excuses. Excuses often create a barrier to living the best life. The thing is, humanity is created to live life to the fullest.

Stop.
Be still and know God.
Breathe.
Remember that God wants you to live the best life.
Look at your life honestly.
What excuses have you been making?
Determine what you need to do to stop making excuses.
Remember you don't have to change everything in one day . . . small changes add up to great change.

Learning with you to stop making excuses,
Shalom,
Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2008 All Rights Reserved)