Lesson from Personal Mastery

Recently in a course on "Personal Mastery" ran by my company Training Dept, I came across a beautiful and admonishing poem.

Watch your THOUGHTS, they become WORDS;
Watch your WORDS, they become ACTIONS;
Watch your ACTIONS, they become HABITS;
Watch your HABITS, they become your CHARACTER;
Watch your CHARACTER, it becomes your DESTINY.

Reflecting on the wisdom carried in the poem, it reminded me of similar warnings in the bible.

The Lord Jesus says that it is from our HEART came forth our THOUGHTS, WORDS, ACTIONS and HABITS - "..out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness.." (Mat 15:19) and "..the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man." (Mat 15:18)

The author may have taken from the same teaching of Jesus and had paraphrased it so that we may learn to control the outcome of our THOUGHTS, WORDS, ACTIONS and HABITS. All these feeds on our weaknes and drives our LUSTS / DESIRES....

Are your LUSTS / DESIRES evil, selfish, self-edifying and malicious? We need to heighten our self-awarness at all times to avoid falling into this state - "..lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death." (Jas 1:15)

The author had aptly portraited CHARACTER to describe what we became... a progression which elder James described as a growing process (conceived and bear-forth).

While the author had wanted the poem to be general, elder James is very specific.... DEATH! is the DESTINY of sinful CHARACTER.

In Personal Mastery, we're taught to be self-aware and proactively make changes to our personal life to influence our THOUGHTS, WORDS, ACTIONS and HABITS to nurture our CHARACTER and so we can control our DESTINY and be SUCCESSFUL in any aspect of our life.

This too, I felt is what every true Christian should strife and work hard on to please our Lord. Amen!