The people in life who succeed are the ones who have staying power. They just don’t give up. You knock them down, but they just get back up. Nothing seems to discourage them. How are you with your bulldog mentality? Could you use a little help in this area? Let me help; read on.
To have a bulldog mentality we need to have a goal and strive with everything we have to accomplish that goal. Do not let any obstacles get in your way. It is a state of mind. Think positively that you will accomplish your goal no matter what. “Thomas Edison’s manufacturing facilities in West Orange, New Jersey, were heavily damaged by fire one night in December 1914. Edison lost almost $1 million in equipment and the records of much of his work. The next morning, walking about the charred embers of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old inventor said, ‘There is a value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Now we can start anew’” (quote by Alan Loy McGinnis). How is that for a ray of optimism? Edison was determined not to let anything get in the way of his invention(s).
Now to apply this to our Christian life. Jesus told the disciples the parable of the soils. Afterwards, He explains the meaning at the request of the disciples. When explaining the meaning of the good soil that “produced a crop a hundred times as great” (Luke 8:8), He says in verse15, “But the seed of the good soil, these are the ones who have heard in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.” Notice, Jesus says that if we are to bear a big crop, we must “hold it fast.” That means to keep working and not let anything get in our way of obeying the Word of God. This is emphasized when He says, “bear fruit” and “with perseverance.”
Let that bulldog mentality, that we are to have in obeying the Scriptures, lock its jaw starting today and never to let go. Your results may even be “a hundred times as great!”
