Pick Our Battles Wisely

It is not easy to pick our battles wisely. We tend to wanting to win everything. That’s understable. But we need to understand that war is not a championship cup where we need to win every single game. It is more like a league, it is more like a marathon where endurance is the key to win. So we need to choose our battles wisely.

For example yesterday, it only occurred to me that there is confidentiality restrictions in sharing due to the new way of working via outsourcing. The goal of outsourcing is to make things inefficient. But as we become working with people who are not in the same company, even sharing a little bit of information is already considered sensitive. My tendency is to try to win every argument. But thank God that I remember to hold myself and to convince myself that this is not something to worth fight for. There are many other important things that we need to fight. So there is no point of wasting to energy for things that are not essential as the goal of the knowledge sharing is more for learning as well.

This reminds me that we are not called to do everything but we must do everything that God calls us to do. So we need to discern whether we are called to stand up for something or not before we actually do it. Is it just our pride and idealism that propel us to stand up? Or is it something because we can feel the senses that God wants us to do?