This is Joseph Z and I wanna share a powerful truth with you that changed my life, and it has to do with staying in your grace lane. Now let me explain. A lot of people begin to discover areas they really want to be in or places they want to go. And sometimes you’re just not graced to do it. But when you find your grace and what you’re really marked and called to do and gifted for, you’ll find peace, you’ll find satisfaction, fulfillment, and you’ll be good at it.
Now, I’ve discovered in both ministry or different areas of society, there’s many people that strive for a position they probably shouldn’t be in, because they have no grace for it. And I’ve seen that before, and the only thing worse than someone being in the wrong lane, is to be empowered in that lane. I’ll take it a step further. You could be empowered in the wrong lane and then it’s even worse than that when you try to pass; you try to go in the passing, or when you have oncoming traffic in the wrong lane. Not good. Now, when people are empowered in the wrong lane, many times you can have good people, you can have kind people, people with good intentions. But even people with good intentions, kind people, they end up in the wrong lane, or now they are empowered in a lane they should have never been in.
Here’s what happens: when pressure comes, they can begin to look like villains. They can look like they’re doing the wrong thing, because they don’t know how to handle the area that they’ve strived so hard to get into, but maybe God has not given them. Now, let me explain to you how to avoid this and how to land in your proper lane, so you can have some great hope today. It comes to us right here out of Romans 12. In Romans 12 and starting out in verse 3 it says, “For I say to you through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, (this is Paul talking) not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.” Listen carefully, “not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” Now, a measure of faith doesn’t mean somebody has big faith and another has little faith. A measure of faith means we all have a part to play in the faith of God. We all have a part to play in the body of Christ. When Paul says to think not beyond what you ought to think, but to think soberly, is a very key thing to understand.
Please ,if you would, pay attention to this very clear understanding I want to give you. The opposite of thinking soberly is vain imaginations. In other words, imaginations that are not what God has called you to do. When you have a vain imagination, that’s where we get circumstances such as what Genesis 11 describes to us as the Tower of Bable. A lot of people came together and they had vain imaginations of, “We are going to build a tower that will reach the heavens and we’re gonna do all these things.” And God had to put a stop to it, because He did not call them to do that. It was a vain imagination. The Bible says in Psalm chapter 2 that the heathen plot a vain thing. They think with vain imaginations. They come up with lofty ideas that are not from God. Now the way you begin to discover not only your grace lane, but stay away from vain imaginations, is also found in Romans 12:1-2. It says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (man, this is gonna help you), which is your reasonable service as a believer.” Verse 2 goes on to say, “And do not be conformed to this world, but (what?) be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
In other words, if you have the word of God in your mind, in your will, in your emotions, and you are baptized in the word of God, mixing it with your faith, you read the word of God, the end result will be you will by accident, even, okay, find yourself in the grace lane you belong in. God will position you, He will align you, He will give you favor. You won’t have to strive after things if you truly surrender to the word of God and you renew your mind to it. Man, that is good, good news.
I hope this helps you. Please put it into practice right now and you don’t have to wonder, “Am I thinking a vain imagination?” No. You’ll know you’re in your grace lane. Especially you’ll find your people, your tribe, which means you’ll find your calling, if you begin to renew your mind to the word of God, victory is yours. God wants this for you more than you do, and it will be well with you. Find your grace lane today by renewing your mind to the word. I really hope this helped you today. Jesus is Lord. I’m Joseph Z and I look forward to seeing you again very soon.
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