When we compare ourselves to others, we make the mistake of believing that we are just like everyone else. When we compare our situation to the next person’s, we do ourselves a disservice in believing that our journeys’ are the same. In the same way that Jesus never performed two miracles the same, no two people are the same and we are not all on the same journey.
The worst thing we can do, is compare our situation to the next person’s. Just because we believe something to be fact, does not qualify our fears. And therefore, just because someone we know got dismissed, does not mean we will be next. And just because someone we know did not receive their miracle, does not mean the same will happen to us. We must have the mindset to know and believe that we are different, because we are different. God created us uniquely, each with our own set of fingerprints and DNA that cannot match that of anyone else’s.
While we may exhibit similar features and traits, even as twins, God created us to be different. Your nexus with God, within the parameters of your relinquished power to Him, dictates your future. You are different because God calls to you, and promises if you return that call, to give you wealth that you never dreamed of. “I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name” (Isaiah 45:3).
He also said that He will give you unfair and unmerited favour because of your relationship with Him, and by that, He will take from your enemies to give to you. “…I will extend peace to you like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream…” (Isaiah 66:12; Isaiah 60:5).
So when others are being struck down and dismissed, the blood covenant between Jesus and your heart (made by you surrendering your heart to Him), just as God’s blood covenant with the Israelites that protected and left them unharmed on account of the blood on their doorframes (Exodus 12:23 and 36), will ensure that you remain unharmed. When it is not coming to pass, not working out, and drying up for others, it will come to pass and overflow in your territory, “the blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it” (Proverbs 10:22). And when chaos hunts them down, peace will be summoned to shield you, “for a thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you” (Psalms 91:7).
But should it happen that a door that you thought ought to have remained opened, closes, remember that when God is Lord over your life, only He allows the doors to close. And in the event that a door should close, then He allowed it because He has better in store for you, “… I have opened a door for you that no one can close” (Revelations 3:8; Isaiah 22:22).
If you believe this, then no harm will come to you. But if you believe you are like everyone else, then the same fate that befalls them, will befall you. Put another way, if you believe that your blessings come from man, then man has the power to take them away. But if you believe that your blessings come from God, then no man can take them away unless God wills it, “For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?” (Isaiah 14:27).
It is all about a shift in perspective. Do not give power to the wrong energy. Grant power to God, and in turn, He will ensure that your destiny is one that will be favourably disposed. A destiny that will transition from ordinary to superordinary, from mediocre to unmerited favour.
©Katie Mliswa and MomentsbyKatie.M, 2018.
