“…Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.”

Business is full of hard fought wins and losses.  Good standing and long sought consumer and customer acceptance and adoption is always long and hard fought. In some ways, if it comes too easy and feels like it fell in your lap then it may well be that it will be short-lived.  I think back to the first internet bubble and so many companies were in this category.  Names that this new generation has never heard of were the darlings of the Valley, the internet and the stock market.  They came and they went, partly because these were not teams of people who had have to fight hard to win.  There is a character that is built through long-suffering, long-hours, long-thinking, long-hours, etc.  There is also power in ensuring that people in our companies have these kinds of experiences.  We can’t depend or expect to be able to be take on the biggest and toughest challenges if we are not battle tested.  Consider whether or not the thinsg that matter and are being focused on today in your business are the ones that have to be hard fought!  They are the ones that do truly matter.

The life we will live today as we work will be filled with choices to focus on those things that are either easy or need to be hard fought to achieve. Our purpose to bring glory to God in all we do is also one that is hard fought.  We know that there are no shortages of reasons to take the easy path and to let ourselves wander off but if we are live up to the challenge and calling given to us we have to fight hard and fight long to be the good examples for others. Today it could be as simple as the words that you say when in the heat of battle. Let’s be sure that we are fighting the right fight and that we work as long and as hard at being the right example to others as we do anything else today!

Reference:  1 Timothy 4:12 (New Living Translation)