SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30
“Don’t
let anyone look down on you because…” 1 Ti 4:12 NIV
GET
GOD’S OPINION! (2)
Try as you may, you will never fulfill a dream that
is not your own. Stop and think about your personal history. How have your
plans, goals and desires been influenced by others? Is it possible your dreams
are the result of who your parents think
you are? Who others think you
are? Who you wish you were? Or are
they the result of who you really are and what God created you to be? You will
live the life for which God created you, only after you figure this out. When a
dream is right for you and you are right for a dream, the two cannot be separated
from each other. T.S. Eliot said, “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure it
is what you want.”
Paul told Timothy, “Don’t let anyone look down on
you because you are young.” Evidently certain people in the early church
thought Timothy was too young and inexperienced to be in leadership. But Paul
thought differently; and so did God. Cecil G. Osborne writes, “The young child
has no clear picture of himself. He sees himself only in the mirror of his
parent’s evaluation of himself…A child who’s told repeatedly that he is a bad
boy, or is lazy, or no good, or stupid, or shy, or clumsy will tend to act out
the picture which the parent or some other authority figure has given him.” Let
God, and God alone, tell you who you are and what you should do. Get His
opinion, for in the end, it’s the only one that counts!
Taken
from the Word for you Today devotional
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