Monday Motivation

Live a Life That Is Respected.

Mondays are a perfect day to reset and realign our priorities, plans and vision. The cares of the week haven't disrupted or derailed our plans yet and with a positive outlook, we can view Mondays as a clean slate, ready and open to be filled with good plans.

For a few weeks, I am planning to share a Monday Motivation - a topic with practical application for women who love the Lord and those who are looking to walk genuinely in a way that pleases Him.

These motivations will share some great characteristics, with a practical application we can use all week long. Today we begin with Living a life that is respected.

Your influence is only as good as your respectability. Respect is earned daily. It's not a title on your name tag. Live in such a way that there's no room for anyone to think negatively of you. Walk consistently with Jesus, serve Him with great joy, treat others with gentleness and kindness and diligently seek wisdom from God's Word. Be known as a woman of goodness, love and discretion.

Obviously we don't read a post and plan to enter a respected life, like anything worth doing, there is a process, a step and then another step in the right direction. Daily choices made consistently in turn begin to affect our behavior. Opening our heart and asking God to fill it with His goodness, lays the foundation. What are some things you will begin today to strive toward godly respectability?

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