STAY IN YOUR LANE

STAY IN YOUR LANE

Successfully stretching toward 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, foes – might 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 simply means living from God’s point of view), might expose us to criticism, ridicule, or rejection.

 HOWEVER, 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 this 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 grand architectural achievement.  His story shows that the opinions others may have of us or the things we achieve are not what really matters.  Their perspectives will 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 constitute the unique reason why you are here!

 Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET YOUR SOON COMING KING.  Maranatha!