Many of us have people that we admire or would like to
emulate. You may know someone that always appears to be calm, never allowing
anything to rile them. You may ask yourself “how do they do that?” or perhaps you
may say “I wish I could be that way”.
There may also be people with other behaviors you would
like to possess. People that seem focused, goal oriented, never appearing to
procrastinate.
Unless you have a personal relationship with someone all
you see is what is on the outside. You may not know the struggles they face
that translate into their appearance. We often see this in people that are
referred to as an overnight success. What appears to be an overnight success
may have taken years to accomplish. A conversation with the overnight success
may begin with you don’t know my story, or what I have gone through to get
here.
What is important is to realize it can be done. What is
it that you are trying to accomplish? Nothing is ever too small and nothing is
ever too great to accomplish. Whatever is important to you is important. Don’t
allow anyone to tell you your concern is trivial or that you shouldn’t try to
do whatever it is that you want to do.
For example a person that is trying to lose weight may
have five more pounds they are trying to lose to reach their goal. As you may
know sometimes the last pounds are the most difficult to lose. Someone looking
at the person trying to lose the five pounds may say you look great I wouldn’t
worry about it. Someone else may even think the person is vain because they
want to lose five more pounds. Your goals are your goals. If it is important
for you to reach your goals you should try to reach them. On the other hand if
you decide you are satisfied where you are and make a decision to change your
goal or stop short of your goal that should be your decision, not the decision
of someone else. Always ask am I doing this for me or someone else?
When God gives you a dream, desire, passion or vision
believe it or not He is also giving you everything you will need to bring it to
fruition. Sometimes what He places in you seems so great you don’t think anyone
will believe it, you may even have a hard time believing it yourself. You must
remember you serve a great and mighty God and that nothing is impossible for
Him. He doesn’t want you to think you can do anything on your own. You can’t.
It is by His grace and through His anointing that you will accomplish what He
wants you to accomplish. We read in Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very
thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
it until the day of Jesus Christ.
It’s great to look at someone else who is doing something
similar to what you would like to do to get ideas and also realize what you are
aspiring to do is not impossible. What you should not do is compare yourself to
someone else. You are unique just as they are unique. Have you ever seen two
people wearing the same outfit? Both people look nice in the outfit but it
looks different on each individual because their body types are different. Two
singers have beautiful voices but their styles are different so they express
the same song differently.
Your expression of your gift is unique to you. This is
not the first time nor will it be the last that I remind you no one can do what
you can do exactly the way that you can do it. Don’t be afraid to do what God
has called you to do because someone else is doing something similar. Your
voice/gift will place you before who God has chosen to receive it.
While you are watching others remember someone is
watching you. What is it that you want them to see?
