Overnight Success!

It’s not the 2 hour movie, the 4 hour game or even the 1hr sermon. It’s the hours of work that it takes to make it happen.  Nothing just happens over night, but many times we assume it does. Everyone seems to want to find that magic bullet. We think the day we sign up on twitter we should have a 1000 followers, or the first blog post you write should have 200 readers. It just doesn’t happen that way, no matter how much we think it will. You would be amazed at the amount of people I know that give up on a project before it even starts. We can’t just try something once or twice and because it’s not a big success just walk away.

Whether you are an athlete, actor, blogger or pastor it is the work you don’t see that makes what you do see happen. Once you get there it doesn’t stop. Kobe Bryant didn’t stop practicing after he won his first championship. If God has called you to do something, just because it doesn’t happen on that day; doesn’t mean you stop doing it the next day. You have to stick it out and work at it. The work you put into something determines the results you will get out of it.