You did it! You made it through to the very last installment of our walk through Lysa TerKeurst’s The Best Yes!
What was the single most important lesson you learned?
I’m not sure, it’s a hard one for me, but I sure loved Chapter 8 on release and Chapter 5 on every assignment not being MY assignment. Probably the most important reminder was the power of a small no in Chapter 11. And then today. Whoa.
We tackle the final two chapters right here at the close of the year: Chapter 18, When My Best Yes Doesn’t Yield What I Expect, and Chapter 19, We Make Choices Then Our Choices Make Us.
Do not miss Chapter 18 if you have ever walked through disaster, crisis, heartbreak, or failure. Let this give you hope as we enter the new year:
Let this unexpected happening point to your strength, not your weakness.
Maybe you’ve been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.
Chapter 18, p. 221, The Best Yes
Whatever the hard thing is you are facing, do the next right thing right in front of you to do. No matter how much it hurts to do the right thing. She quotes President Theodore Roosevelt as saying, “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” {===>Click To Tweet}
I could not put the message to you any better than Lysa did herself: Friend, you are strong. You are persevering, tough, able to bend without breaking, willing to be humbled to the point of humiliation, not blinded, a hunter for wisdom, a praying-through-it woman, a courageous gal, one who wants to learn the deep dependence of following hard after God Himself…From that cracked open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise. Rise. (Chapter 18, p. 225)
In Chapter 19, she closes by commending us to mix together all of the wisdom we have picked up along this journey – day by day, decision by decision. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. James 1:4-5
So share your thoughts? What will you be taking into your new year as you strive to offer respectful nos and best yeses?