I'm already here in LA but have a few other lessons from the cross country journey that slapped me across the face... I'm compelled to share. This one will be short, but sweet...
One of the most annoying things that happens on the highway is when you go to pass someone in the right lane and then they start to speed up, right!? Then you proceed to battle it out mph by mph as each driver's pride swells. Maybe it's just me but I tend to speed up even more just to show them I'm committed. But then we're both going too fast and prime for some problems.
Well, thankfully I didn't get any tickets or have any accidents, but I did realize this fact. We usually gage our speed based on the speed of those around us. We may be coasting in the right lane going five under, but when someone flies up behind us and starts to fly by us, we realize we're crawling and need to kick it up a few notches.
Some of you are coasting WAY below your potential and calling, but don't realize it simply because you're comparing yourself to under-achieving and mediocre slackers. It is so important to get around people that are way better than you and more disciplined than you at everything you do. It will be the most uncomfortable, ego-busting thing you ever do, but you will finally grow.
At one point the prophet Jeremiah was complaining to God about how all the wicked people around him were prospering and he and his people weren't. God showed him no pity and answered this... "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses?" Jeremiah 12:5
God calls you to run with horses, not mere men... supernatural speed. Get around those who are doing it, be humbled, fail, get up, and learn to run with them!
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