Stay in your Lane

Hebrews 12:1 I have an assigned lane for an assigned race.  I can’t win your race. You can’t win mine.  We need to realize we aren’t competing with anyone for anything God has for us.  If we are submitted to Christ and we are seeking His will, if we don’t get the promotion, then the promotion wasn’t in our lane.  If we don’t have something someone else has right now, it may not be that it isn’t in our lane, but that it is simply down the road, and the surest way to miss it is to jump out of our lane to try to run someone else’s race! 

Do you know what Satan wants more than anything else?  It is to disrupt your race.  Comparison will kill your contentment, and once Satan has you discontented, he will do everything he can to get you to wander out of your lane into other people’s lanes where you will stay discontented.  That isn’t abundant life.  That isn’t God’s plan. Our lane has a pace and a purpose that is tailor-made for us.  We will have rest and refreshment and surges of strength at just the right time if we stay in our lane.  We weren’t meant to jump the obstacles in other people’s lanes, just like they aren’t designed to try to run our race.  We are the only ones who can run our race, so we need to get in our own lanes and stay there.