16/02/2023
MIND YOUR BUSINESS;
Rise Above Competition.
" I have lifted you above competition!"
The Spirit spoke to my spirit...and I heard these words loud and clear as I sat in the auditorium that morning.
Can you listen to other singers and worship with their music without hearing only technically and noting the things you would've done differently? Listen to others and hear them with your heart, with the intent to be borne up in the flow of their music. Do not listen critically.
As an actor, watch other people's movies and allow yourself to be blessed by what they do.
As a preacher, could you listen to other preachers' messages? What you know is not all there is to know.
God is able to make a million people successful in the same calling, career, vocation or enterprise, even in the same city.
God is BIG!
He does not need to demote or destroy one in order to promote another.
Even bats, perhaps the ugliest and the least dignified of birds, uncouth and graceless in motion, do not collide with one another in flight.
One evening, early evening, in the city of Jos, Nigeria, I saw them in a mass movement. They were so many that they almost shut out every ray of light from the heavens. There was momentary darkness over every territory they flew across, because of their large number. It was an exodus of bats.
As I watched, I did not see any collide with another. These were not even eagles or other beautiful birds that fly in near-perfect formations. These were bats. Ugly, graceless bats!
God is BIG.
A thousand preachers, writers, musicians, automobile merchants... can be monumentally successful in one space without brushing and bruising one another.
"Hustle" is a negative word, I think. By some happenstance, however, it has been wangled into our modern vocabulary as a synonym for "work".
We can work for the Lord without hustling. Let's keep that culture of hustling out of the kingdom.
Recall Jesus in the parable of the labourers in the vineyard! The simple message of that parable was "MIND YOUR BUSINESS!"
My friend, mind your calling!
If it's God's call
Give it your all.
