setting goals
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5The intentions of the robust continually bring forth abundance. But all the lazy are continually in need.
2And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it. 3For as yet the vision is far off, and it will appear in the end, and it will not lie. If it expresses any delay, wait for it. For it is arriving and it will arrive, and it will not be hindered.
7But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
13Brothers, I do not consider that I have already attained this. Instead, I do one thing: forgetting those things that are behind, and extending myself toward those things that are ahead, 14I pursue the destination, the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.
4Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.
14I pursue the destination, the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
27Prepare your outdoor work, and diligently cultivate your field, so that afterward, you may build your house.
28For who among you, wanting to build a tower, would not first sit down and determine the costs that are required, to see if he has the means to complete it?
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. 6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
26But Jesus, gazing at them, said to them: “With men, this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible.”
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.
27Do not work for food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”