10 May From Here (How to turn your Setback into a Comeback) part 22

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      I have lived in the “Volunteer” state of Tennessee for many years.  Down here in Tennessee the people are crazy about their college football team.  Everybody loves University of Tennessee football (I remain the one exception)!  If you ever actually played football for the University of Tennessee you have reached iconic status.  

     Many years ago, I knew a quarterback for U.T. (mind you, he was the quarterback in the 1970’s).  Yet almost every time we got together that is all he ever would talk about was back then in the old glory days.  Please don’t mistake me, thank God if you have accomplished great things in the past, but at some point in our lives we must live our life from here!

     Over the last number of months we have shared with you our key verse for this series from I Thessalonians 5:16, “Rejoice evermore.”  In this short but powerful Scripture, we discovered the Greek word translated “evermore” literally means “from this point on”.  In everyday language, it means “from here”.  Then we began to share with you “13 Facets to Live a Constructive Life”:

  1. Part from Pity (Phil. 2:14).  
  2. Never let your tragedy become your identity (Mark 5:26). 
  3. You can’t unscramble eggs (Eph. 5:16).
  4. What we know is always more important than how we feel (Eph. 6:13-14).
  5. Never let go of what you do know because of what you don’t know (Matt. 11:5-6).
  6. Never compound bad decisions with more bad decisions (Rom. 6:19).  
  7. Life is not about “What ifs” but “What now?”  (II Sam. 12:18-24).
  8. Learn to Fail Forward (Phil. 3:13-14).  

Then we began sharing our “6 Failing Forward Facets”:

    1. Let past failures strengthen your resolve for future success.
    2. Failing is an act.  Failure is an attitude. 
    3. When you fail…keep your sense of humor (Prov. 17:22).
    4. When you fail, ask why…not who.  When we fail we tend to blame and excuse.  Please allow me to give “Three Blame Barometers”:
    5. Champions are not people who don’t fail.  Champions are people who do not quit (Prov. 24:16).  
    6.  In failing, keep the big picture (Matt. 4:8-11).  

Join us next week as we continue with our ninth  Facet to Live a Constructive Life…From Here!