Ok there has been something on my mind since Sunday, I over heard a person describing our Journey, our walk with Christ and each other, I didn’t know at that moment why it tasted sour but it just did. This is how the person described it :

VISUAL:
———————————————————————-Person A—————————————————————————————— GOD
———————-Person B ——————————————————————————————————————————————GOD
—Person C ————————————————————————————————————————————————————-GOD
————————————————————————————————————————————————Person D —————-GOD
—————————————————————-Person E ————————————————————————————————GOD
————————————————————————————————–Person F ————————————————————- GOD
————————————————————————–Person G ————————————————————————————- GOD
——————————————————————————————————Person H ———————————————————-GOD

The person Said using their hands to show the scail from top to bottom, ” We are all on the same Journey, you know walking out life together, Some of us are up here in our Journey,” the person raising their hand up high above their head, ” And then there are some that are here, new in their Journey.” Now lowing their hand down by their side. Now raising their hand to their chest level they said, ” And most of us are right here right in the middle.”

I couldn’t help but to think that it was wrong, Someone is always at the bottom and some one is always at the top, and then there is this safe comfortable zone right in the middle. For all of the Donald Miller fans, this sounded all to much like the LIFE BOAT theory, and there is NO God in the Life Boat. It is like it is ingrained in us to constantly compare ourselves to each other, I heard a person the other day comparing their gifts and talents to someone else with the same gifts and talents, saying how whorable the other person was and how they played them selves up to be something great. But all I heard was this person building themselves up because they secretly had no confidence in them self. I am not trying to make it like I am above all of the comparing, I struggle with it daily and I hate it! I am constantly comparing myself to those who I feel superior to for some reason or another, it makes me sick when God decides to hold up that mirror. SO any how , God finally spoke to my heart Tuesday morning about this Journey and what it really looks like.

When we are comparing ourselves to eachother, then yes, one is always higher than another, however Christ says to not worry about the other and to just look at our own junk, to compare ourselves to HIM, to seek to be like HIM.

Just think about it for a minute, Say you have this huge revelation one morning, God reveals something to you, and when you really look at it it usually falls along the lines of one of the fruits of the spirit (love, peace, gentleness, patience, goodness, self-control, kindness, & Faithfulness). We usually get all excited about what we have been given, but put it in context of the rest of our life and measuring it up to ALL the fruits of the Spirit it doesn’t move us any higher or any further along, but rather EVEN. What I am trying to say is that God is doing something different in each of us, working on something different in each of us all at the SAME TIME as we walk out life together, none are better or more mature, because if God is working on us with LOVE and all the sudden we begin to produce fruit of LOVE there is still 7 other areas in our life that are lacking that other people are being trained up in, so your lack may be their strength and your strength may be their lack. We all have lack and we all have strength so when you look at this Journey for what it really is , walking out life together there is none greater or mature than the next, we are all walking it out just as equal. If we see a person with major fruit in their life it isn’t maturity that we see but it is more of God that we see, it is less of them not more.

So God gave me a visual of this Journey in Context of GOD :

—–Person a ———————————————————————————————————————————————– God
—-Person b ———————————————————————————————————————————————— God
—-Person c ———————————————————————————————————————————————— God
—–Person d ———————————————————————————————————————————————– God
—–Person e ———————————————————————————————————————————————— God
——Person f ———————————————————————————————————————————————— God
—–Person g ———————————————————————————————————————————————— God
—–Person h ———————————————————————————————————————————————— God

So lets walk out life together :)

~C