***Oh hey Mark Lanier with your video thought for the day finishing making the bed this morning now
you want to know why let me give you why my good buddy Richard arsenal sent me an
email and he said he had watched this commencement address given by Admiral McRaven
who had come up through the Navy SEALS and was a Navy admiral and the admiral gave 10 principles
for success that were based on things he learned in the Navy seals now Richard and I have
communicated a bunch about life in general and he knows and I think shares the opinion that I hold
that good truths that we will find in this world are truths that have been put into the world by
God and so when you find a good truth in the world it is almost axiomatic that you will find the same
truth in the Bible and Richard challenged me he said I’d love to see if you could look at these 10
ideas for success that Admiral McRaven gives and analyze them biblically see if they are biblical
and if so explain how and so I thought this is a great idea I will do so and today's the
first one and the first one was Admiral McRaven saying to each day make a make a decision that
you're going to do something you're going to do it well you're going to see a task to completion
his example was every day in basic training they were taught to make their bed and to make
it well with square corners and that there is a a sense of satisfaction that comes from a job well
done a task brought to completion now I looked at this I thought is that a biblical concept
and my immediate answer was absolutely not that the Bible says make your bed each morning
but the Bible often gives instruction about how important it is that we have discipline
and control self-discipline self-control and that we do tasks and we do them to completion
this is part of being a a person who's going to live vibrantly successfully before God
so for example the Proverbs Proverbs 25:28 I believe says that a man without self-discipline
is like a city that's been breached by the enemy has knocked down the walls and has been invaded
you don't have a hope of a successful life without an ability to do things uh Ecclesiastes 9:10 says
whatever your hand finds to do
do it with your might do it strong do it well make square corners on that bed now the biblical idea
of making your bed every morning you're not really going to find that but the principle that Admiral
McRaven uses from that illustration is very valid and very biblical and it is set yourself to work
find jobs that you can do and do them very well and see them to completion and when you become
a person who does that that will permeate to all areas of your life I was talking to one of
my young lawyers recently who I had given her a task and I said I need you to get this done and
she came back to me initially and said you know I think maybe you're going to need to weigh in and
I said I’ll weigh in if I have to but before I do I want you to get it done she said okay she went
back called me the next day with with excitement in her voice because she had done a task
that really wasn't that easy for her to pull off at her level of legal practice but she did
it because she's gifted and she's talented and she put drive to it whatever your hand finds to do do
it with your might it will transform who you are so maybe you need to make your bed each morning
and that'll set you on that road to successful completion of a task I don't know what fits into
your life but I’ll tell you it's a biblical principle to do things and to do them well
number two comes up tomorrow that this is your video thought for today