Remember in school your teacher would say “keep your eyes on your own paper, test, or homework?” This is good advice to use in our daily lives.
God says we can have an abundant life that’s overflowing but that promise is only for our position, the one destiny He ordained for us.
It’s for a particular calling that only we can do with our own perspective.
A perspective from our pain or life experience.
Of course that pain is human, so we can all relate.
But we each have our own audience to reach. This is an amazing thing. This is not limited, having a particular calling on our lives gives us more of an advantage.
10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), [a]recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].
Ephesians 2:10 (AMPC), Biblegateway.com
Fulfilling this means to keep our eyes on our own paper, having enough discipline to stay in our own lane, saying no when people ask us to do something that we don’t feel peace about because it’s not on God’s to-do list for us.
It’s not selfish to take time and refill our tanks and rest for a day. We will have more to give tomorrow because we took the time to replenish.
We let God fill us up instead of being distracted by other people’s problems that they are meant to figure out on their own.
We’re supposed to help people, but it’s not really helping if were just enabling and not making our Father’s business top priority. We need to know when to give advice or butt out, when to talk or to be quiet, and when to lay down our day and tend to another or continue finishing what is necessary for our own lives first.
Much more fruit will be seen if we keep the position that God has predestined for us to walk through. God uses any pain we have been through to help others who deal with the same issues. God wants to use our restored lives to bring quality to other people’s lives.
Of course, He says to reach as many people as we can so that many souls make it to Heaven. But isn’t the relational part that we invest with one another even more important?
That’s when true healing can take place and the love of God can flourish.
When we first commune with God, developing that relationship and loving Him and ourselves the right way. Not a toxic, manipulated, or confusing way. This allows God’s love to bounce like a ball from one human to the next because His love has really been instilled inside of us to give unto others.
I know it’s hard, but staying in our own lane will keep us balanced and all our priorities straight. This will make a bigger impact in the long run.
8 Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 5:8 (AMP), Biblegateway.com
Even the devil can use our generosity and other great characteristics we possess to burn us out. This can cause us to go down many wrong roads until we’ve become lost.
Our dreams could end up in scatterbrain mode instead of completing one simple task at a time, one day at a time, giving our best in the present moment. From one step to the next, from glory to glory, we are being made into the image of God. Over time other people will see Him inside of us, by our actions and personality. Our dreams will come to life by following the path Christ has laid out for us, making more room for others to believe and follow Him as well.
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Cor. 3:18 (NKJV), Biblehub.com
