what you ought to do with discouragement

I just read something that was nagging at my mind as an area for personal improvement, and realized that of the two ways it could be handled one of them, popularly called discouragement could lead to me deciding that even all of the good things possible required a risk too steep. So I would like to recognize that potential while focusing on the potential for good.

 I know that whenever we decide to do something extremely good we will we tried and must prove able to withstand discouragement. I do not know at all how this will be applied, but in my particular situation My choice was so good it was making me feel so content and purposeful, and things that might discourage others were easily overcome. I was even told that it would basically be impossible for me for do this thing that I was able to focus all of my self finally and endure so many other things. because of HOPE.

One time at a branch conference in maybe Montgomery Alabama, or close it was commented in Sunday school by a random person that as members of the church it is like we walk around with figurative targets on our backs. It was significant to me cause.. Oh time out. I just saw the cutest thing on TV which I had to look at when my children began a fight that required intervention. a girl who is very smart dressed like another girl because she was trying to be stupid. It made me think of  how "they" say clothing make the man. Or how even smart people judge a book by the cover even though it might not occur to them.

 ok, I had some time so, I wanted to review my dilemma at least once here so I might sort or work out a solution verbally. The real matter is that I am discouraged from the thing that lifted me up, and by a thing called common sense.

If I listen to this discouraging voice it will likely appear as wisdom, and it will help me reach everything I  hoped to accomplish in this life, but though, it is still possible to do something it seems wrong because of one thing, I will not be getting closer to my eternal goal.

But, even today in class it was pointed out how the factors that impede progress are real and I might actually avoid them, and by so doing get the thing I want RIGHT NOW.  But, when I type it out like that it hardly seems a valid question at all. Always choose the thing that you need over the thing that you want, even if what you want seems to have the greatest effect.

So, it is clear to me, even though I never actually explained the real concerns.

For as much as those details matter I might as well say that I see a fire potentially starting and I have a bucket of water in my prison cell and feel encouraged to dump it on the potential fire before it consumes me, but dying a firey death is the sort of tool discouragement uses sometimes to make us feel it is urgent, though instead, I would rather take my chances though it means possibly dying, because I know that I will need water.