It’s not about your Competition

Noone can get in the way of what God has ordained for your life. It does not matter what the world says. It does not matter what your situation may look like, the word of the Lord shall prevail for you.

Everyone wants to be Rachel, but in longing for the life of someone else we miss our own blessings. Yes, Rachel was beautiful. Yes, she was chosen to be first by man, but Leah was chosen to be first by God. Leah failed to notice her own fruit because she was too busy looking at someone else’s tree. Don’t miss God in your life by watching how he is moving in someone else’s. Life is not about competition, but it is about the glory of God.

In a way, Leah may have been in competition with her sister through her process of child bearing. Rachel was barren during the beginning of her marriage and Leah used this opportunity to gain her husband’s affection. Don’t we do that in life? We look at our completion and we both find and try to use to our advantage what we are better than them at. We try to make them fill badly and we attempt to show out and label our victories with an emotion. Leah labeled her children with an emotion. She thought that her husband would finally love her because she gave him six sons and one daughter. We think that the world will finally love us because we are smart or because we finally lost weight, but life is not about that. Leah was having children for the glory of God. Through her son Judah, God gave us Christ, but in life we tend to miss the long term blessing looking for short term benefits.

No one is telling you to get used to being second best, what I am asking you to do is see God in your process. Don’t hate your competition, but instead pray for them. God wants to use them also. God used Rachel’s son Joseph to usher the people of Israel in to Egypt. What Leah did not know was that her own sons would hate her nephew Joseph and leave him for dead to be taken as a slave and that Rachel would die giving birth to her second son. Rachel needed all the prayer that she could get during her process from her sister, but Leah was too busy looking at her as the competition.

We have to learn to pray. Leah’s family needed prayer because they had so much turmoil after she was gone. Sometimes it hurts to pray for others when we feel so broken by them. God can use our brokenness for his glory. Instead of labeling her children with an emotion, she should have been looking toward God on their behalf.

See the fruit that God has given you and praise him for it. Ask him for insight concerning every situation that you are faced with because you have no idea of the spiritual impact that it could have on your lineage.

Leah was blessed even though she may not have seen it. You are blessed although you may not see it. There is a blessing in your hard place.

Lord I pray that you help us to stop looking at our co-workers, our friends, and our family members as competition. We are not placed in this world to try to beat the next person to the mark. God humble us and remind us that you will lift us up for your glory when it is time. Lord let us not grow weary in well doing. Let us see you in the midst of our process. Lord break us for your glory and help us to see ourselves and our situations through your eyes. In Jesus name.

Recommended Reading: And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not (Galatians 6:9).

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