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Lets say you have a gym and you put some new equipment in it. Then even more equipment, and more cool stuff, and then better stuff etc… pretty soon you no longer have a gym- you have a warehouse. 

What if you went back to just a squat rack, bench and a jumprope.

 

The basics. 

 

The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.

 

You have goals, passions, pursuits, family… they are all good BUT THEY ARE NOT THE MAIN THING.

 

The relationship with God is the main thing… 

If you are good with God he fuels the rest. Family- he gives you that advice and patience when you want to throw you kid across the room.

The job? God gives you insight in how to handle the new project.

The Passion… God says wait on that new boat… and you are given one later in the year. 

 

The basics are fundamental to long term success and should never be taken for granted.

Vince Lombardi expounded on the basics… every year he would start his speech to his team by saying this is a football… he hammered basics to the point of saying even if the other team knows what we are doing, we will be so good at it, they still will not be able to stop us.

 

John Wooden again the greatest basketball coach in the history of the game expounded the basics… to the point of getting his guys on the floor of the court and teaching them how to tie their shoes. 

 

But what are the basics to the main thing: What are the bench, squat rack and jump rope in discipleship?

 

READ, PRAY and OBEY. 

CHURCH LIFE IS important… but when you can’t meet at church, bible study, classrooms, prayer groups etc…

You stick to the basics. 

 

This quarantine has truly left me with just a bench, squat rack and a jump rope. It has cut out the riffraff and the non essentials. Which has been good.

 

So here you are: your bible, a notebook and some time to pray. Take advantage of it, listen to God and obey his voice!