Is it possible to live freely with boundaries around me all my life? Blessed be the ties that free. Thank God I've had boundaries since birth. Without them, I'd be dead.
Or at least severely compromised. Physical boundaries. Relationship boundaries. Hanggat yan lang ang kamay mo.
financial boundaries. Yan lang ang withdrawable limit. Not that I've been enslaved by them, okay? Let's just be clear about this.
And while I've broken them more times than I can remember and recall, the default has been to know my limits. I'm sure it's been the same for you most of your days, to work with them, and he goes, live freely with them around you, day in and day out. Oh my Adam! Eat freely what was said to him except from the tree of knowledge, the tree of good and evil And we been disobeying ever since Here are three ways to live freely within established boundaries and hopefully within a boundary of three more minutes Number one yield to wisdom And wisdom is channeled through different sources different people different origins It takes humility.
Magpaka kumbaba. The willingness to listen, makinig. An openness. Tapat bukas ang isip.
That the ultimate source of wisdom will speak through different channels. And that to be able to get it daily, moment by moment, means to listen to that ultimate source of wisdom expressing itself through different ways. Socrates reminds us the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. And, and, and, Proverbs 9.10, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Yield to wisdom. Number two, embrace self-discipline. No one else can make a choice to discipline yourself but you. Shall I go up?
Shall I circle around? Step down? Sit still? What to do?
After the knowledge comes the courage. Again, and again, and again, and again. Alam mo nang gagawin mo? Ayun ba?
May tapang ka ba? May disipina bang gawin mo? I run, hopefully, my 12th marathon in two months. Regardless of my plans for business, okay, or advocacy, and even the family, it is clearly God-led that I do not compromise the minimum of three runs a week minimum, whether I feel like it or not That enough sleep enough drinks for the evening time to cut the ongoing debate All is done as it time to run Jim Rohn, discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
What's your schedule like this week? Planning is a daily discipline we should not do without. 2 Timothy 1.7, for God gave us a spirit, not of fear, but of power and love and self-control. So, discipline, self-control is a given spirit.
Embrace it and live. Here's a joke. How do you organize a party in space? You, planet.
Number three, how to live freely with boundaries. Seek continuous growth. Growth in spite of boundaries. Yes, within the boundaries.
and growth as much as you are able to receive. You've heard the charge. Bloom where you are. Plant them.
In other words, take deep root and you will bear good fruit. I've had all these decades, one God, one wife, one core business, one chosen sport. I mean I tried different things and certainly I deterred more than once And it true There have been amazing adventures taking another route It equally true My biggest regrets were caused by boundaries. I should not have gone past.
But, but, but by God's grace, it's really just that. I don't just suck and just fade away. Let the rains come. I out of them.
The sun in the right time will come back and shine. Growth takes time, my friend, within the boundaries set for you and me. for our lives. 2 Peter 3.18, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Is it possible to live freely with boundaries around me all my life? Number one, why? Yield to wisdom. Ask yourself to whom should you now listen?
Number two, E, embrace self-discipline. What's the control? Think about it. What's the control more consistently in your daily practice?
And number three, S, seek continuous growth. What principle or conviction should you deepen in your life today? Y, yield, E, embrace, and S, seek. Yes, it is possible to live freely with boundaries.
Yes, you can. Have a great weekend.