When we pillow our heads at night, we need to have things that give us peace. Many such things are available, but one of the best is the simple peace of knowing that we’ve done things that day that were not easy for us to do.
Sports announcer Bob Costas once said, “We are beaten only when we quit believing in what we wish we could be.” If this is true in athletic endeavor, it’s even more true in our godly endeavors. We dare not give up the godly dreams we have.
While we are busy wishing we could serve God within the framework of someone else’s circumstances, He is no doubt saying to every one of us individually: “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”
If we’re praying to be anything other than the unique package of problems and possibilities that we are, that’s a prayer that can’t be answered. The sooner we give up on that false hope, the sooner we can concentrate on God’s plan for our own lives.