{"id":11146,"date":"2019-10-12T04:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2019-10-12T04:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T09:51:21","slug":"look-back-and-see-how-far-youve-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=11146","title":{"rendered":"Look Back and See How Far You’ve Come"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know we’re told to NOT keep looking in the rearview mirror at the past, but this time it\u2019s okay — looking back at how far we’ve come. We\u2019ve acquired abilities we never thought possible. We dreamed of driving a car and the day came when we passed the test and now we\u2019ve been driving for years. We dreamed of one day getting married and having children. That day came and now we\u2019ve raised or are raising our children and, quite frankly, doing a pretty good job at it. We dreamed of the day when we\u2019d have a job that paid us well for our hard work. We put that dreaming to work as we earned a college degree or learned a skill or gained on-the-job, hands-on training and experience that opened up even more doors for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think way back to where you started. Maybe it was that newspaper route that taught you the discipline of getting up early and the responsibility to be on time and throw it in the right place on the driveway. Maybe it was that waitress job that taught you patience, diligence and kindness. Maybe those school sports gave you the start you needed to be the team player with sportsmanship and comradery that you have with your fellow employees today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We can all look back and see how far we\u2019ve come. Who we are is a result of all we have learned, put into practice, and we became quite astute at it because we believed in hard work. I heard it said that \u201cSuccess is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, and sacrifice\u201d. We applied those principles and look how far we’ved come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about Jesus Christ \u2013 the skills, the abilities, and the leadership qualities he had when he showed up on the scene at age 30. He must have acquired His skills from the training in His family’s business and heading it up after His dad passed away. Think about His childhood, youth, and manhood, when He studied the Scriptures. As a little child He was daily at His mother\u2019s knee taught from the scrolls of the prophets. And since He gained knowledge as we may gain it, His power, both mental and spiritual, is a testimony to the value of the Bible as a means of education Here is what was said of Him: \u201cAnd He grew in wisdom, stature and favor with God and Man.\u201d Luke 2:52. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we keep working at that creative idea \u2013 we\u2019ll land right where God planned for us to be. Like our Lord Jesus Christ — diligently pursuing who God destined us to be, we’ll hear those words, too: \u201cAnd he\/she grew in wisdom, stature and favor with God and man.\u201d Now, whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you’ve already come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know we’re told to NOT keep looking in the rearview mirror at the past, but this time it\u2019s okay — looking back at how far we’ve come. We\u2019ve acquired abilities we never thought possible. We dreamed of driving a car and the day came when we passed the test and now we\u2019ve been driving…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15136,15135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-come-a-long-way","category-look-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}