01/04/23 WE ARE UNIQUE

01/04/23 WE ARE UNIQUE

Everyone is limited in some area.
Everyone has strength in some area.

Some allow their limitations to define them.
Some focus on their strengths.

There is no joy or success in fretting or regretting.

Turn your energy toward pursuing and doing.

We find and fulfill the call and the will of God when we recognize, prioritize and live our lives in the light of His Lordship, love, wisdom, power, mercy.

God gives each of us our own set of abilities, talents, gifts. We are responsible to develop our skills and limit our limitations.

The Christian life is not for the lazy, or the lovers of ease.

Successful Christian living is when God's provision is met by surrender, faith and obedience, resulting in self-denial and sanctified determination.

Philippians 3:7-15
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.