Bill Shakespeare penned the famous line, “To be, or not to be; that is the question.”
We all focus on being. I want to be an astronaut. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good Christian. I want to be a better basketball player. I want to be smart. I want to be liked.
Being is the result of doing. If you never shoot a basketball, you will never be a basketball player. If you never fly a plane, you’ll never be a pilot.
Lots of people want to be, but they aren’t willing to do.
When I first started running, I remember wondering when I would be able to consider myself a runner. A friend asked me, “Do you run?”
I replied, “yes.”
He said, “Then you’re a runner.”
If you do it, you are it, no matter how good or bad you are at it.
If you never do it, you cannot say you are it, no matter how badly you want to be it.
If you want to be it, you must start doing it.
“Commit thy works unto the Lord, and they thoughts shall be established.” – Proverbs 16:3
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