The Insights

THEME: DRIVE YOURSELF IF NO ONE DOES ANCHOR TEXT: “David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God” 1 Samuel 30:6. There are people who cannot do anything by their initiative, except someone comes around to pamper, threaten, pressurize or encourage them. People like these are simply not self-driven. If this describes you, you are like a wheelbarrow that goes no further than it is pushed. If you do not take initiative, drive yourself and take up the needed responsibility, you may end up waiting forever. You will always feel better about yourself whenever you drive yourself to do your best. Achievers that I know continually put pressure on themselves to perform at high levels. But those who are like wheelbarrow will have to be instructed, supervised, and threatened before they do what is needed to be done.

THEME : HOW OLD ARE YOU? MEMORISE : So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. PSALMS 90 : 12. READ : PSALMS 90 : 1 - 12 : 1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend...