be you

I wanted to pass on a challenge from an amazing woman, christine caine. Whew! So simple, but so powerful. I am super guilty of this at times. Lord, Help me to remember these words and live by them!

We don’t look like someone else.
We are not gifted like someone else.
We are not talented like someone else.
We are not as eloquent as someone else.
We are not as happy as someone else.
We are not as smart as someone else.
We don’t have as much as someone else.
We are not as intelligent as someone else.
We are not as creative as someone else.
We are not as holy as someone else.
We don’t know as many bible verses as someone else.
We are not as trendy as someone else.
We are not as fit as someone else.
We are not as clever as someone else.
We are not as thin as someone else.

We actually have no idea what we are good at because we spend all our time comparing our limitations to everyone else’s strengths.

Thus we fall into this comparison trap that is crippling…immobilizing…paralyzing.

No one wins except for the enemy.

That is why Paul writes "We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise" (2 Corinthians 10:12).

Be who God made you to be.
Do what God made you to do.