STAY IN YOUR LANE
Successfully
stretching toward personal potential is a direct function of how well you stay
in your GOD-GIVEN LANE.
This is no easy task since a large cadre of influential voices – family,
friends, foes – 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 (simply living from God’s point of view) likely exposes us to criticism,
ridicule, or rejection.
HOWEVER,
IF YOU STAY IN YOUR LANE, YOU WILL SURELY WIN.
Consider the story of
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 are not what really matters. Indeed, their perspectives
will change, according to what becomes culturally fashionable or
contemporaneously vogue.
What differentiates
and distinguishes us from the pack is our ability to hold on to OUR BIRTHRIGHTS, i.e. the gifts,
creativity, values and wisdom originally imparted by our Creator. So
instead of cloning the methods and achievements of others, ask God to help you
to see clearly enough (and wisely enough) to identify those traits and talents
that are uniquely you. They constitute the real reason why you are here!
Sisters and
brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE
READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!
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