another antidote to envy is to keep focused on the plan GOD has for your life. don’t get distracted by what’s going on in other people’s lives. center in on GOD’s will for your life.
there’s a simple phrase in this story that the owner says to those who were grumbling and griping and who didn’t get what they deserved, matthew 20.14 (Gw), take your money now and go. he’s basically saying to those who are complaining who can’t get past this, he’s basically looking them in the eye and saying, “get a life! it’s time to move on now. it’s time to go to the next step in your life. quit having a pity party. just get over it!”
sometimes we get so stuck in the past. some of you are still envying the person who got to be prom king or queen. you’re really stuck back here a long ways. and GOD is saying, “get a life! move on.” you get so stuck on what you didn’t get and why it didn’t happen and i deserved that and they didn’t deserve that, you get so stuck on that, you can’t see GOD’s plan for your life. HE still has an incredible plan for your life right now, today. why should you let what they got keep you from GOD’s plan for your life? and HE has an incredible plan for your life.
hebrews 12.1 (lb) says, let us run with patience the particular race that GOD has set before us. note the word, particular. that means the personal race, the race that is only for you. it’s unlike HIS plan for anyone else. this plan that GOD has for your life individually is a plan that HE had before you were even born. that’s how great this plan is.
psalm 139.15 (lb) says, you saw me before i was born and scheduled every day of my life before i began to breathe. GOD has shaped you. HE has made you for a unique purpose. one of the reasons for a church is to help you discover the unique purpose that GOD has for your life, the particular race that HE wants you to run.
and once you begin to discover that, how GOD wants your life to be lived out differently than everybody else’s, you don’t have to envy anyone anymore. you just have to realize you just have to be the particular person GOD has made me to be. you’re released from the tyranny of always having to be best all the time. you just have to be the best you can be, the person GOD made you to be.
when you get focused like this on GOD’s particular race for you to run, you really don’t have time to envy anyone. you’re so caught up in what HE wants you to do. you can’t be bothered with envy because you’re living your life for an audience of one. for HIM. for the particular race HE has for you.
just a thought from the front porch…
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