Hey guys! Did you hear
about the game? Well, unless you
withdraw your name, then you may still be in it. Oh, did I say game. I meant contest. No, I actually mean competition. No one ever really wins, but you can give it
a try.
Though I’d prefer you not.
The game I’m speaking of
is the comparison game that many of us feel thrust into when we enter our 20s. All of a sudden, it’s like life becomes a
race, to see who can rack up the most stuff. By stuff I mean experiences, careers, and the
like.
It’s like everyone seems
to need something to show for themselves, their lives.
With this game on the
rise, it is easy to find yourself comparing your life to someone else’s. When we do this, whether we have more or
less, we will always come up short.
Questions may swirl
around in our heads about why this person has this or that, and I don’t. These questions are usually followed by
sadness, anger or even envy. Forgetfulness
of God’s favor ensues followed by ungratefulness.
As a Christian, you may
begin to question God about why you don’t have what this person or that person
has. The reason why is because God made
you for a specific purpose. Our lives
aren’t supposed to look exactly the same.
If we would just trust in Him, pay attention to what He is
saying to us individually, remember
it, and surrender our plans to His
plan, which are far better than anything we can think of, then we will start
winning. When we quit trying to run
someone else’s race, then we will start winning.
When we take our eyes off
of what everybody else has, we can clearly see that God is moving us in a certain
direction as well, that He has something planed for us too. Acts 10:34-35 reminds us that while God does
grant us favor throughout life, He does not have favorites among His children. He doesn’t love you less than anyone else.
34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now
realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from
every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.
~Acts 10:34-35
In
the midst of dwelling on others’ lives, have you stopped to think about what
God has in store for you? Jeremiah 29:11
gives us a synopsis of this.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you
a future and a hope.
~Jeremiah 29:11
We should not be
competing against our brothers and sisters, but competing to be our best
selves, all that God has called us to be.
We must give up our worldly definition of success and see success
through the eyes of our Creator. We have
to do it God’s Way to get Godly results.
8 This Book of the Law shall not depart
from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may
observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your
way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
~Joshua 1:8
Now that’s what I call winning.
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