Plan A B C D

10-1–19 Tuesday

 

 

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Conversation in the gym yesterday… basically came down to this. A guy wanted to make a movie. He wanted investors… My advice to him was this is a giant step to take… you need to fail more before taking it on.

He had never started a business / let alone failed

He had never wrote a book / to have it rejected a 100 times

He had never knocked on doors selling things to be denied 1000 x’s

He had never created a widget to have it never sell

He had never spent years in the minor leagues failing to make it out

He had never written a song to have it mocked

He had never painted a picture to have it never purchased

 

The point is… I told him was that the joy is from going from Plan A to plan B, C, D, E, F…

Building resilience and understanding God uses plans BCDEFG etc… more then he uses Plan A’s. 

 

Plan B? Try Plan CDEFG

 

Jochebed… put my son in the river in a basket for the Kings daughter to have?

Moses kicked out of Egypt/flees

40 years as a shepherd in the desert

The greatest leader in all of scripture next to Jesus.

 

Joseph… youngest brother of 10

Hated by his brothers

Sold into slavery

Falsely accused

Forgotten in Jail 

Second in command of the then known free world

 

David youngest of 7 brothers 

Forgotten and looked down on by Dad

Shepherd

Faces Goliath

Runs from King Saul to keep from being killed

Becomes King

 

Do you see a pattern here?

 

How about Peter

Not smart enough to be chosen by a Pharisee to study under

Goes into fishing

Strong back weak mind

Picked by Jesus to be his disciple

Reprimanded by Jesus- get behind me satan

Denies Jesus

Runs away

Goes back to fishing

Becomes one of the greatest leaders in the early church

 

Its when plan A doesn’t work that you learn the most important things in life. Its where you are made. The failing at plan A is so mandatory for future and greater success that you must learn to enjoy it, look for it, expect it and even thank God for it.

 

A seed must die to bear fruit

Plan A must fail to bear fruit

 

What now?

Ask God what you need to learn

Ask God who to learn from next

Ask God for his next direction