"The only thing worse than not finding your purpose, is being found in the wrong one." -Pastor Curtis Riley

Life is not a competition, but we all strive to do our best. While it is true being around greatness sharpens you, nothing proves greatness in you more, than intentionally making others better. If one thinks they are here to compete with you, they will not make you better, possibly hide their best from you and thus from others, and worst of all, they may cause you to err and fall; sabotage, though some may not see it that way.

This is not life and never leads to progress.

But team work, makes the dream work.

In previous posts, I seem to be anti-encouragement. If you read carefully, or know me personally, you already know I'm an avid complementer and encourager. But, there is a place for all of us that is tailor made. There is work or works for all of us to work while there is time, that was assigned by God. We all have significance in life and we must diligently search out what our destinies are, and do it. We must accomplish it. 

We, who will encourage, must also know what others are designed and graced to do. Sometimes it is easy to tell by obvious talents and early inclinations, but other times observation is misleading. We walk by faith, and not by any natural senses. Some of our natural talents are partly for training or showing other skills that will be used for actual our actual professions of destiny. Many unintentionally get people off track by encouraging the wrong thing. We must all seek God for our own purposes and seek seeing and helping to develope others.

My pastor, Pastor Curtis Riley, often says the only thing worse than not finding your purpose is being found in the wrong one. That about sums it all.

I often use the scriptural example of Mathew 25, where three are given according to their several ability or grace. The one that wasted and buried his responsibility, was first addressed and punished before his work was given to another. He alone was graced with the ability to bear that responsibility as long as there was breath in his body.

I also use the example of when Samuel goes to the house of Jessie to anoint the next king. Jessie presents all his sons except David. Samuel knew none of Davids brothers were the rightful king. So, though they are as fearfully and wonderfully made as David, and purposed for something, in this matter, Samuel could not, nor should have encouraged them.

I can use the story of Samuel and David to also show how having a competition to decide who belongs where, is not God's way either. Before any of us were formed in our mothers womb, we were called to do something and be something.

For those of us with faith, competition is the epitome of having no faith. I love sports and clean fair competition in business, but in everyday life, we do not look to the left or right, but we run our own race; the race God has set before us. Competition says no one knows who will win until one crosses the finish line first. But, faith sees the expected end and walks accordingly.

I want to give one more scriptural passage as to why I am against competition and want more than anything for people to encourage and be encouraged to do what they are called to do. I also want each to receive all God has for them. He is the God of more than enough. Unlike this natural realm where we all split a finite pie, in Gods Spirit realm, every one will be crowned and receive overflow, even in this life. I write of reward, because I believe fear of coming up short in comparison to another, and getting short changed especially monetarily, is why people want to compete and do things they aren't designed to do. It is important to know, that although in the case of only David being king and not his brothers, in the New Testament and in Christ, we are all kings and priest unto our God and reign on the earth. (Revelations 5:10).

I will not explain the passage, I will just write it below. You can interpret it for yourself. It is Habakkuk 2:4-20. I suggest you read the whole book. It's only three chapters.

Grace and peace always.

-Yulanda K.

Habakkuk 2:

4 Behold, he whose soul is not upright in him [will] become filled with pride, but the just in his faith shall live. 5 Even more than he who is given over to wine, [the] transposer, the proud man, shall not remain, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and [is] as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples; 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him and a taunting enigma against him and say, Woe to him that multiplied [that which was] not his! And [for] how long would he pile thick clay upon himself? 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake those that shall take thy place, and thou shalt be for a prey unto them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the other peoples shall spoil thee because of human blood and [for] the robberies of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein. 9 Woe to him that covets illgotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast taken shameful counsel for thy house by cutting off many peoples and hast committed a sin against thy life. 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him that builds the city with blood and founds the village with iniquity! 13 [Is] this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain. 14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 15 Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to [them], and makes [them] drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness! 16 Thou hast filled thyself with dishonour instead of honour; drink thou also, and thy foreskin shall be uncovered; the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful vomit [shall fall] upon thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall fall upon thee and the destruction of the [wild] beasts shall break thee, because of the human blood, and of the robbery of the land, of the cities, and of all that dwell therein. 18 Of what profit [is] the graven image that its maker has sculpted; the molten image, that teaches lies, so that in making dumb images the maker trusts in his work? 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Can it ever teach? Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it. 20 But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.:

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