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Who are you when all the titles and accolades are stripped away? Who did you want to be when you grew up? Are you that person? What happened? What's stopping you? If given the opportunity, do you still want to be that person? Are you happy with who you've become? If not, become who you've always wanted to be. It's not too late. You've got 363 chances to get it right. And if you get discouraged along the way, just look in the mirror and try to see yourself through God's eyes.
Knowledge is defined by facts or skilled gained through experience or education. Life has a way of educating us in ways the classroom never could achieve. Education is valuable when it is valued by the individual. Most of us hated waking up and going to school. It was simply a check on the to do list. College was the lesser of two evils for me, but grad school was a deliberate decision. I don't think I valued my education until I made the choice to go back to school. School isn't the only avenue of learning. What new skills have you learned? What do you want to add to your toolkit? What knowledge do you have yet to gain? We live in an era when knowledge is at our fingertips. We can google anything. Ask alexa. We are fresh out of excuses to be ignorant.
I remember when it took days to get your pictures back. Hoping and waiting to see if that picture came out just like you wanted. It took time for them to develop. Your film would undergo a chemical process in a dark room. Interesting enough, most of us don't have the patience to develop. Yet, God is calling us to endure patiently for our gifts and talents to develop.
Development does not take place in the spotlight. Development does not take place with others. We develop when we submit to being alone in a dark place. We grow when we plant seeds in a dark place. Don't rush the process. Don't despise the wait. Don't fear the dark. It's where we develop.
Proverbs 15:22 (NIV) Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Do you make decisions by yourself? Do you run your ideas by anyone? Most of us seem great in our own mind. We have great ideas. We are great people and of course, our flaws and our shortcomings are justified. There is a reason why companies have a board of directors. There is a reason why our supreme court has multiple judges. There is wisdom in the counsel of many. There is a reason churches have deacons and elders. Wisdom comes from many sources, but it has to be sought. Do you seek to be wise? Seek wise counsel.
Life is all about choices. The choices we make. The choices we don't make. Life has a way of letting us know whether or not we made the right or the wrong choice. The wisdom of our choices are rarely seen in the moment. However, the preparation and who we consult prior to making a decision typically determines if we make the right choice. Seek wise counsel. Make good choices.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Most of us have been conditioned to accept certain standards of beauty. If God sees beauty in our brokenness, then what do we see beauty in? Do we see beauty in creation? Do we see beauty in destruction? Do we see beauty in our pain? Do we see beauty in sickness and death? What if our life story was weaved with a colorful collection of our successes and failures sown together with our joy and pain? What if our weakness makes us beautiful? Our need for a savior and our inability to save ourselves made us God’s most beautiful creation. We are beautiful because we are flawed. We are beautiful because of our imperfections.
God wants us to be better. God wants us to do better. God wants our best. God wants to give us His best. Most of us settle at good. Good is better than before, so we find contentment in mediocrity. We settle for less. We stop striving. We stop thriving because things are better. Better is not the destination. It's just a pitstop on the road to God's best.
