Sept 9 Comparison will Rip Your Sails…
Affirmation: I look in the mirror & I love who I see…so does God.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son that whoever believes in Him shall not die, but will have eternal life.John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son that whoever believes in Him shall not die, but will have eternal life.John 3:16
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Ponder, Personalize, Practice: This verse is one I memorized in elementary school and chose as my life verse when I was about 12. Spend time today memorizing and pondering. Pay attention to the feelings that come as you ponder Philippians 4:13.
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13
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Walk in Grace. Live in Love. By Bob Goff
September 9Comparison Will Rip your Sails, Sink Your Boat and Blame the Weather
We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.2 Corinthians 10:12
There’s this boat race called the Transpac Race that goes from California to Hawaii. I live on the water in San Diego and wanted to sail across the ocean, so one year I was like why not? It takes about five hours to fly from Los Angeles to Honolulu at 500 miles an hour. So the boat trip at 10 miles an hour is pretty long. I wasn’t really sure how long it would take, so I bought a bunch of beef jerky, a couple of cases of Stagg chili (bad move on reflection), and a couple of buddies and I started sailing west.
You can go wild preparing for this race. Charting your course, preparing your boat, buying matching outfits. Sextants and maps of ocean currents and star charts, not to mention all the tech gadgets. Or you can just untie from the dock and go.
While the Transpac race is a really famous race, for myself I called it a trip. I wasn’t in it for the trophy but for the adventure. Too often we turn what should be an adventure with a few course corrections into a race with others where we over prepare, overthink, and assume that winning is the only goal. When I left the harbor, it was a chaos of careening boats and guys spinning things to make the sails taut. But once you were out in the wide ocean, it was just you. There was no point in comparing—the goal became somehow finding Hawaii at the end of the race rather than missing it and ending up in Japan
Who do you need to stop comparing yourself to?
September 9Comparison Will Rip your Sails, Sink Your Boat and Blame the Weather
We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.2 Corinthians 10:12
There’s this boat race called the Transpac Race that goes from California to Hawaii. I live on the water in San Diego and wanted to sail across the ocean, so one year I was like why not? It takes about five hours to fly from Los Angeles to Honolulu at 500 miles an hour. So the boat trip at 10 miles an hour is pretty long. I wasn’t really sure how long it would take, so I bought a bunch of beef jerky, a couple of cases of Stagg chili (bad move on reflection), and a couple of buddies and I started sailing west.
You can go wild preparing for this race. Charting your course, preparing your boat, buying matching outfits. Sextants and maps of ocean currents and star charts, not to mention all the tech gadgets. Or you can just untie from the dock and go.
While the Transpac race is a really famous race, for myself I called it a trip. I wasn’t in it for the trophy but for the adventure. Too often we turn what should be an adventure with a few course corrections into a race with others where we over prepare, overthink, and assume that winning is the only goal. When I left the harbor, it was a chaos of careening boats and guys spinning things to make the sails taut. But once you were out in the wide ocean, it was just you. There was no point in comparing—the goal became somehow finding Hawaii at the end of the race rather than missing it and ending up in Japan
Hear this; comparison will rip your sails, sink your boat, and blame the weather. Don’t buy the lie that an adventure with God is a race with everyone else.
Who do you need to stop comparing yourself to?
Myself
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