Clement Stone gave more than $275 million to charities, which ranged from mental health, to evangelical Christian, to youth welfare groups. ''All I want to do is change the world,'' he once said. That's a pretty audacious goal, don't you think?
Realizing environments impact our ability to achieve our goals, he said:
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"
Advent gives us time to examine our environments. When we discover the environment is not helping us know Christ, and make Him known, it's time to change the environment. Either we can modify the environment we're in, or we can choose to move ourselves into a new environment. Either way, our action (or lack thereof) will yield dramatic results.
As we prepare for Christmas, we can prepare environments that will move us to embracing a deeper coming of Christ in us. It's amazing that He came to us, becoming one of us. One product of your environment is you! I'm asking him to prepare my heart for the environments He desires for me that I might be more and more like Him as I prepare room for Him.
Ezekiel 36:9 - See, I am for you, and I will come and help you as you prepare the ground and sow your crops.
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