One of the greatest challenges is to dare to become who you really are!
Many simply conform to be who others want them to be rather than to become who they are. One of the most tiring and frustrating things in this life is living your life trying to be someone else. When you live like this you are still a stranger to yourself and you put the greatest limitation on your advancement in life. Trying to imitate someone else is a great self-imposed limitation.
Do not conform to the mold others and the world want to put you in, it will make you a copy and that will simply adapt you to the world. Instead, be an original, do you, this makes the world adapt to you. All Progress, advancement, and great achievement depend on originals. John Mason said “One of the hardest things about climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd of copies at the bottom.” God wants you to be on top not at the bottom.
Romans 12:2 says Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold, but let God re-mold your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity. 1
The Challenge
Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. 2
Do not try to live up to the expectation of anyone else but God’s. Resolve to be yourself, the person God has made you to be. You are not a biological accident or a science project gone wild, rather you are fearfully and wonderfully made; you are God’s masterpiece. Don’t be an imitation, but standout by becoming who you are! Make your own impression. If you walk in the tracks of others forever, you will never leave your own footprints in the sands of time. To make a mark that can never be erased and to enjoy the best rewards, be who you are made to be! Be an original and not a copy!
The journey of becoming who you are begins by asking Him who made you! (Jeremiah 33:3).
Simple as A-B-C!
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