The Willingness To Follow Through To The End

Voice of Eden (episode 231)

Mon. 12 July 2020

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝.

𝟸 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝟾:𝟷𝟷

𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔, 𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚎𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚢 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝, 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜.

 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝,

This is one very big lesson I'm having to learn. Please note that the fact I write these letters to you every Monday and Thursday doesn't mean I have every part of my life figured out. No, I don't!

I am learning and growing as any ordinary person would. 

I woke up this morning and had a conversation with the Holy Spirit. During our conversation, I asked if I should tell my friend reading this letter that I would be going away for a while, and that I would not be sending letters until I'm back. 

Simply put, I have been overly busy with a lot and some I need to focus on and deal with. Then He said, "follow through to the end." That word was not for me alone I strongly believe someone else needed to hear it like myself.

follow-through (noun):  The completion of a motion. The act of continuing a plan, project, scheme, or the like to its completion.

That seems simple enough. So why don’t people, including you, and I follow through?

Is it a lack of self-discipline? Is it a lack of doing something long enough to become a habit and routine? Is it laziness? Is it flakiness?

To follow through to the end, you have to commit to integrity – i.e., keeping your word – as being a core value that you don’t veer away from. It is something people will notice, respect, and tell others about you if you have it and especially if you don’t have it.

Integrity is simply doing what you say you’ll do when you say you’ll do it and at the first sign that you will not be able to do it, repairing any damage to everyone that will be negatively impacted before you move on.

And the lesson?

Do what you say you’ll do and see it to the end, even when you don't feel like it.

On Thursday, I'll be giving some practical steps that can help us all.

#voe

#keepgrowing

#goodmorning