Make Progress Every Day

If you take an inventory of what you have achieved in this 40 or 50 years of life, many of you will have empty lists. They would have not achieved anything and they would not have marched onward and forward towards God. The record of how many steps one has taken in the pilgrimage of life towards God, would itself be a blank book for most people.

If you ask yourself, ‘How have I utilized this God given opportunity of this beautiful life span?’ many will draw a blank. Rate yourself, ‘What efforts have I taken to inculcate divine qualities of love, non-hatred, patience, impartiality, selflessness, controlling anger, controlling all these human emotions’. Your score will be too low! Then your conscience will reveal that there was no big point in the 40 or 50 or 60 years of human life, that you have not progressed in any spectrum.

Make a checklist of the qualities you need to improve upon and work steadily every day, every moment towards that target. End of every day, rate yourself in the checklist, and also record how many steps you took that day in the divine march towards God. This is pilgrim’s progress.

Do not pine over the past or fret over the future and miss the present that God is giving you.