10 Truths to Live By

10 Truths to Live By
By Kent Humphreys www.fcci.org

1. Don’t be religious, but passionately seek to know and love God. Seventy years on this earth will seem but a moment in all eternity.

“Love your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, and with all of your might” Deuteronomy 6:4, 5

2. Make your family a priority. Love is spelled “T-I-M-E”. Create opportunities to work and play together.

“Husbands love, wives respect, young children obey, and grown children honor” Ephesians 5, 6

3. Have a career that you enjoy and be the best at what you do, both in your company and industry. Never compare yourself to someone else. Balance times of work and rest.

“God will teach him how to choose the best” Psalms 25:12 (L)

4. Love and serve those people around you as you observe, listen, and become available to them. Don’t seek to control others, but unselfishly give your life for them.

“Through love serve one another” Galatians 5:13

5. Build your life on established truths. The latest “opinion polls,” how people “feel,” or current fads are weak foundations on which to build your life.

“I am the Truth” John 14:6 “A wise man who built his house upon a rock” Matthew 7:24

6. Establish a few intimate friendships and become transparent in small groups. True friends are invaluable and necessary during the storms of life.

“A cord of three standards is not quickly torn apart” Ecclesiastes 4:12

7. Keep your word whatever it cost! Be totally honest, trustworthy, and a person of character. Yes, character does matter.

“Who can find a trustworthy man?” Proverbs 20:6

8. Work hard at learning to be a good communicator. Read a lot, learn to speak, to write and to spell. Be an enthusiastic leader, not a dumb sheep following the crowd over the cliff.

“A wise man will then increase in learning” Proverbs 1:5

9. Make money your slave, not your master, save regularly and avoid debt. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”

“Whoever loves money will not be satisfied” Ecclesiastes 5:10

10. Persist. Never give up! Know where you are going.

“Trials --> Perseverance --> Character --> Hope” Romans 5:3, 4