Outdo Your Past!!!!

In life, you must never compare yourself with others; rather, run your own race and be the best of you..... The Bible talks about '' The Race '' that is set before you; thus you're not called to run someone else's race.. Hence, its needless to engage in any kind of unhealthy rivalry or competition with others.. You're only permitted to compete with yourself and outdo your past.. Never allow yourself to be discouraged when it seems as though those around you are making more progress than you are; you're not running the same race...

That someone else is succeeding doesn't mean you're failing.. It all depends on individual aims and targets, or set out objectives.. Success is relative, and is measured at different stages, never forget that.... Take for instance, two men who are building their houses.. While one lays a not -to-deep foundation and starts erecting a bungalow, the other one take his time to dig deep because he wants to erect a five-storied building.. The former may finish his building and even start living in it, while the latter is yet digging his foundation...

Now, the first man may even jeer at his colleague and mockingly ask him, '' Are you still digging? '' I have finished building my own house! ''.. But what he doesn't realize is that they aren't aiming for the same thing.. The fellow who spent a long time digging knew that his foundation had to be deep enough to accommodate the tall building he intends to put up, for the higher you want to build, the deeper your foundation ought to be...

At the end of the day, when both houses are built, the difference will be clear between the two buildings... If the fellow building the storied house had gotten into unhealthy competition and became discouraged that the other fellow had already moved into his house while he was still digging his foundation, he would never have completed his own masterpiece...

So in life, focus on your race! Set your gaze upon the Master and run your race to win, seeking only to outdo your past... Compete only with yourself based on God's plan for your own life.. When you have this consciousness, your life will be full of rest, and you'll learn to measure your success through the the Word...

Scripture Reading
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witness, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;(Hebrews 12:1-3)