You In 5 Years : Week 1

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

The Life You Get Stuck With

Romans 13:11-14

Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in the short term but underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

Acorn that this oak tree sprung out of.

Who could I be five years from now?

Dress yourselves in Christ and be up and about!

5 years is enough to accomplish...

positive + negative

Whatever you choose to add or subtract will have a big impact.

The ways you let in are the ways you're set in.

You have your ways.

The Lord has His ways.

All of your ways you honor Him, He will make your path straight.

4 Things : 

1. Time is not on your side

Chronos is time on the clock

Chiros is specific time, pivotal time - that's the time he used in this text.

Psalm 90:10 + 12

Ecclesiastes go to the funeral.

Isaiah 1:24-25

God's word stands forever!

2. Future you is an exaggerated version of current you.

Whatever characteristics you have today (good or bad) will only become more.

***Time doesn't change who you are, it reveals and depends who you are!***

"The evening of your life is determined by the morning of it." Greg Laurie

Proverbs 11:27

Matthew 7:2

We are what we eat.

We become what we watch.

Your heart becomes visible in your words.

3. If you don't like what you're getting, change what you are doing.

Entrenched in generosity, in love, in mercy, and in discipline. 

Change the mundane details.

4. Ongoing consistency is much more important than short-term intensity. 

Compound interest.

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it...he who doesn't...pays it." Albert Einstein 

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest." C.S. Lewis

Daily - weekly - monthly

When I feel like it or not.

Consistency.

The small decisions we make every day matter so much.

The life we get stuck with is the life we make!