PURPOSE, NOT COMPETITION
DAILY DEVOTION
Today’s Bible Reading: Ecclesiastes 4 – 6
Ecclesiastes 4:4 (AMPC): “Then I saw that all painful effort in labor and all skill in work comes from man’s rivalry with his neighbor. This is also vanity, a vain striving after the wind and a feeding on it.”
In the quest for purpose, it is important to understand why you do the things that you do. This is because these reasons affect how effectively you function in the places where God has positioned you.
What does this mean?
Some people pursue certain things in the gospel, not because God has instructed them, but because they are competing with another man, like our theme scripture reveals. A Christian may spend days on a prayer mountain out of a spirit of competition because he envies what another man carries.
While it is a good thing to admire graces and seek to receive them, you must audit your motives. Are your actions a result of a desire for deeper intimacy with God or competition?
Honour those ahead of you, learn from them, and receive from the graces God has placed in your life, but never let envy become the reason for your pursuit.
God has not called you to become a cheap copy of a great original. He has called you to find youself in Him and to walk faithfully in the purpose He designed for you.
💡KNOW MORE: Galatians 5:26; 2 Corinthians 10:12
⭐HIGHLIGHT: God has not called you to become a cheap copy of a great original. He has called you to find yourself in Him and walk faithfully in the purpose He designed for you.
🙌PRAYER: Loving Father, thank You for this word. You search my heart and weigh my convictions. Envy, rivalry, and comparison are not the foundation of my pursuits. I am aligned to Your will, Your Word, Your Spirit, and Your purposes. In Jesus’ name, Amen.