I used to be competitive in life, I still am somewhat, and then I realize, when I feel it as grandstanding, that I am to scale that back because I need to remember and understand that JESUS, not me, WON EVERYTHING WORTH WINNING, FOREVER. Jesus shines light on everything that should be important for me and the rest will fade away. I can’t take credit because I didn’t even win the winning, He won it.

But we can feel the blessed feeling of JOY. So, with a blessed feeling that He allows me to feel: 

I don’t have to compete even while looking competitive; 

I don’t have to whine even when obviously I have been overlooked;

I don’t have to look behind when I’m looking forward;

I do have to wonder what the blessing is in the bungled world, but when I can only see Him then I can see Him as the only thing going right;

(And I do have to mourn what He mourns.)

I DO have to stand up for myself as a child of God, but I don’t have to climb over people, put them down, stand on them or in their way when Jesus already made me a new Way; 

and I don’t have to knock anyone down to be picked up, especially because I don’t have to compete if I am not running the right race, His race, a good race where He leads. 

I do have to realize that the WORLD doesn’t see eye to eye right now, it won’t, but should remember that IT WILL at some one glorious day when Jesus returns, because then all, on their knees, will bow down. In that day I still won’t have won myself but be filled with wonder that He has given me. And I will then really wonder why I worried so worldly. 

Jesus forgives worldliness and brokenness when we repent with open hearts wanting to heal. Let us open them now and keep working in His Way.

Amen 

Isaiah 66:1-2

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.