STAY IN YOUR LANE
Successfully stretching toward your
personal potential is a direct function of how well you manage to stay in your
God-given lane. This is no easy task
since a large cadre of influential voices – family, friends and foes – will
continually urge us to embrace decisions, positions, tasks, or goals that may not be
central to the primary reason we have been placed on this earth. Because of these powerful voices, the
decision to do things GOD’S WAY, which is to live from God’s point of view, could
expose us to criticism, ridicule, or even rejection.
But if you
stay in your lane, you will surely win.
Consider the story behind the Eiffel
Tower, one of the most recognizable landmarks on the planet. Built as the grand entrance to the 1889 World’s
Fair, this favorite spot for international tourism receives multiplied thousands
of visitors every year.
However, despite its present-day
level of success, ferocious opposition boiled up during its construction. A group of prestigious French artists and writers,
including Alexandre Dumas, author of “The Three Musketeers,” filed the
following petition:
“We, the writers, painters,
sculptors, architects and lovers of the beauty of Paris, do protest with all
our vigor and indignation, in the name of French taste and endangered French
art and history, against the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.”
Nevertheless, history ultimately vindicated
Alexandre Gustav Eiffel. Although in 1889
he was roundly condemned, today he is highly praised and celebrated for his
architectural achievement. His story shows
that the opinions others may have of us or the things we do are not what really
matters. Their perspectives will
undoubtedly change according to what becomes culturally fashionable or
contemporaneously vogue.
What differentiates and
distinguishes you from the pack is your ability to hold on to your BIRTHRIGHT,
i.e. the gifts, creativity, values and wisdom originally imparted by your
Creator. So instead of cloning the methods and achievements of others, ask God
to help you to see clearly enough to identify those traits and talents that are
uniquely you. They are the real reason why you are here.
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