Saturday 16 March 2013

Winning And Losing

I hate losing.
 
I'm hugely competitive and, although I'm nowhere near as bad as I used to be, I will still probably sulk for a while if I lose a board game or a card game.
 
I have been thinking about this a lot over the past few days, as I have realised that a lot of my competitiveness links in with a desire to be the best, to always be number one.  To be the winner.  And so I feel insecure when I think I am in competition with someone else and I might not win.
 
But over the last day or so, God has been showing me how I don't need to see myself as competing with anyone. 
 
In the competition for being me, I win.
 
Paul reminds us of this in Romans when he writes,
"So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t."
 
[Romans 12:6 MSG] 
 
Rather than looking to the people around me and comparing myself to them, or feeling as though I am competing with them, I want to discover what it really means to be me.  I want to know what it means to be the person that God made me to be and I want to grow more and more into that person.
 
 
 

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