Your Situation

Life is a test to see what you will do with your sit­u­a­tion. Jesus is the mea­sure. He came from a ques­tion­able back­ground, with rumors about his parent­age, and went on to change the world. He was born in rel­a­tive poverty in a remote part of the world. Loved by some and hated by many, he did not waver in accom­plish­ing his life’s task. He was and is liv­ing proof that you do not have to have the back­ing of famous peo­ple to accom­plish the job. You just have to take your sit­u­a­tion and do some­thing cre­ative with it.

What makes the chal­lenge fun is fig­ur­ing out what you have been given in life and apply­ing it to the impos­si­ble. Faith is the real­iza­tion that another force is at work that brings some­thing from noth­ing. There are no excuses; there are no places to hide. You were given your sit­u­a­tion for a pur­pose. Do some­thing with it that is heavenly.

There is no reward for whin­ing or com­par­ing your­self to oth­ers. What you have is enough. Jesus was a mem­ber of a despised minor­ity in an occu­pied coun­try. Some of his friends would just as soon turn him in as lis­ten to him. In the end, he was exe­cuted. It is a mat­ter of style. If you do what you do with a sense of Divine des­tiny, you will do much of the same. You will be in part the Jesus of your day. Your sit­u­a­tion is not about lim­i­ta­tions but about possibilities.

All you have to do is believe in the pos­si­ble. The end result is not nec­es­sar­ily wealth or fame (though they are not ruled out). The con­clu­sion of the mat­ter is that you took less and made more. The world was made bet­ter because you were here. You took shrewd advan­tage of lim­ited cir­cum­stances and opened another door for the bet­ter­ment of humanity.

Your sit­u­a­tion is not a prob­lem. It is just a chal­lenge to your imagination.