UCB Word for Today devotional recently
focused on Unhealthy Comparisons and the series blessed me. Here are the main points:
1. Paul didn't
measure his progress by the pace of the runner in the lane next to him. He
said, in essence, 'I'm running according to the drumbeat I hear on the inside,
not the outside. I will support and encourage you, but I will never compete
with you. My goal is to recognise and maximise what God has put within me. I'm
not chasing you, I'm chasing me”.
2. There will
always be somebody who has more education than you, preaches better than you,
or makes more money than you. So shake it off and be yourself! The Bible says,
'He who walks with wise men will be wise”...
3. The only course
you can run and win is the course God has given you.
4. Others
may inspire and instruct you, but you must go to God in order to find out what
He’s called you to be and then align yourself with it. God told the prophet
Habakkuk, ‘…Write the vision and make it plain…that he may run who reads it’
(Habakkuk 2:2 NKJV).
5. It
is okay to admire somebody else’s vision and be inspired by them, but you must
receive your own vision from God and run with it. Only when you do that, can
you live to the fullest. God wants you to run according to what He has shown you, not what somebody else says. Stop
taking your cues from people. Go to God!
6.
You are
the question, God is the answer. And as long as
you know who is who, you’ll always make progress in the journey of life.
Have a fantastic Christmas break and may your 2013 be far better than this year.
Every blessing,
Dupe
