Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Free to Succeed

It sounds funny, but I used to be paralyzed by my potential. I intrinsically knew I would be successful at whatever I put my effort into. But not everyone is successful. So why is it fair for me to succeed if everyone doesn't? So this deception kept me from putting my effort into anything truly creative, anything that could be wildly successful.

But then God taught me Psalm 91:7. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

Other people's failures are just that – other people's failures. They have nothing to do with me. Compassion over what God is doing with them should not distract me from what God is doing with me. How about you? Can you relate?

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