I hear most people measure your "smarts" by IQ level. I have also heard lots of people say that there are some things certain people can't do, because they are simply just not smart enough. That is not true. With our nice cozy IQ of 100, we can do things that someone with a 139 can do. We can, but we have to be willing to fight for it tooth and nail. Maybe even till were not sure we can do it anymore. And maybe that seems unfair. Why should they be gifted so that they can do it with little or no effort? Why, when I want it so much more? It doesn't seem fair. And you will grow tired with trying and failing, you will start to lose sight of your end goal. You won't want to go on.
You need to remember that there is a sometimes very hard truth to find, in that since you will have to work so much harder than them at it, in the end you will reap many more benefits from it than they do. It may seem unfair, but you will have gone through a tough fight and emerged victorious on the other side. You will have earned it. Much more that the person beside you with the "smarts", who didn't have to do anything but go through the motions. They will never know the satisfaction that you feel after winning that battle, because for them there was never a battle in the first place.
Keep fighting, keep holding on so that you may one day say,
We are blessed to be able to work for something we want because we will learn so many lessons along the way. It may feel like a weakness, but it is really a strength.
I recently had an assignment where I had to write my own autobiography. I know what they want me to say. I know what they want to hear. When they ask me to tell my life story they really are asking me to only tell certain parts of it. But sometimes I wonder what would happen if we instead wrote our real story. We told the things we did and thought when no one else was around. If we told about the times when we were in our own desert. If we told about those things that seem even more real to us than the events in our lives.
We fight battles everyday. But we refuse to let them get the best of us. God is right here with us. He gives us the strength to keep fighting and to hang on one more night.
You need to remember that there is a sometimes very hard truth to find, in that since you will have to work so much harder than them at it, in the end you will reap many more benefits from it than they do. It may seem unfair, but you will have gone through a tough fight and emerged victorious on the other side. You will have earned it. Much more that the person beside you with the "smarts", who didn't have to do anything but go through the motions. They will never know the satisfaction that you feel after winning that battle, because for them there was never a battle in the first place.
Keep fighting, keep holding on so that you may one day say,
2 Tim. 4:7 I have fought the good fight,
I have finished the race,
I have kept the faith.
1 Cor. 1:13 And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,
for my strength is made perfect
in weakness." Therefore I
would rather boast in my infirmities, that
the power of Christ may rest upon me.
I recently had an assignment where I had to write my own autobiography. I know what they want me to say. I know what they want to hear. When they ask me to tell my life story they really are asking me to only tell certain parts of it. But sometimes I wonder what would happen if we instead wrote our real story. We told the things we did and thought when no one else was around. If we told about the times when we were in our own desert. If we told about those things that seem even more real to us than the events in our lives.
We fight battles everyday. But we refuse to let them get the best of us. God is right here with us. He gives us the strength to keep fighting and to hang on one more night.
