March 15, 2013
Runner-Up
Eight years ago Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was a runner-up
for the position of Pope and today he is Pope Francis I. You just have to love
all those runner-up stories of people of faith. We know in our heart and mind
that we are ready for a position of leadership and when we don’t get the position
we often feel God is telling us no, but God may be saying not yet. I think of
Moses having to spend 40 years in Midian before God allowed him to return to
Egypt and lead the Hebrew Exodus. And Saul/Paul, who was overly educated in the
law and had a miraculous conversion, didn’t start his ministry until he’d spent
two or three years in Arabia. We need to be aware that the appearance of others
crossing finish the line ahead of us doesn’t always mean that the race is over.
“Do you not know that in a race all the
runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the
prize.” (1 Cor 9:24 NIV)
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Gail;
-----I believe the second most valuable thing we can know when evaluating situations, especially those regarding other people, is how much we don’t know. That knowledge sets a kind of “certainty level” about all the perceptions we form from what we do know. Life is extraordinarily complex in all the causes which produce a situation and in all the effects a situation will produce. Then knowing that God is neither confused by nor lost in all this complexity, and that every bit of it serves His purposes are the most valuable things we can know. Taken together, this knowledge makes in us an adjustability better known as humility.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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