What got you here won't get you there.
Different parts of a journey are approached differently. Different phases of a process require different actions. If you use a map to travel across the plains, you wouldn't use the same map to cross the mountains. Different terrain, different map. When it's time to harvest, a farmer would not use the planting routine to harvest the crops. You plant one way and harvest another.
When Marshall Goldsmith wrote the book What Got You Here a Won't Get You There, he applied this same understanding to career advancement. He explained that the processes people employ for making it as a worker do not apply to positions of management. It was an acknowledgment that the worker and the manager have different jobs, different uses of time and tools, and different objectives.
The book was aimed at people who aspire to management. It lays out a map, if you will, of milestones that must be achieved. It explains that some of the old must give way to the new; if not, the person will not succeed on this new journey.
This week’s Hebrews scripture has a similar message for those who want a relationship with God. In the first 10 verses of Chapter 10, the Hebrew writer succinctly sums up much of what Jesus tried to communicate to Israel's leaders: the Priests, Scribes, Pharisees, and Teachers of the Law. The old way, the way they clung to, was no longer viable. They would have to change if they wanted to be one of God's people. What had brought them to that point—the Law—could not get them any further. They needed a new redemption song.
But, you should read those 10 verses for yourself. I recommend reading it in The Message; it makes the meaning plain.
Jesus came in the fullness of time to fulfill the Law. It was done. It's as if Jesus was saying: What got you here won't get you there.
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Link to the scripture passage in The Message:
https://bible.com/bible/97/heb.10.1-10.MSG
New Redemption Song by Over the Rhine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK6-s6qUJeo
PHOTO CREDIT: Steve Orr
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This Friday is DaySpring’s last Lectionary Breakfast during Advent. We will resume our Friday gatherings on January 7, 2022. We would love it if you could join us this Friday morning. We start at 8:00 on **Zoom and in-person at Our Breakfast Place. We'll do all the usual stuff: eat, read, discuss, laugh. But we'll also be celebrating, expectantly, the birth of our Lord.
Come for the food, stay for the blessings.
Enjoy the week!
Steve
Psalm 80:1-7
Hebrews 10:5-10
Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)
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