I remember when I was a little boy I had a friend that I always played with. When we would be playing something and he wasn’t winning he wanted to quit or change the rules or play a different game. As a society we are obsessed with winning. How often do we think about winning? Look at how fanatical people get with sports teams, or athletes, or game shows, you can go as far as different politicians. Sometimes success isn’t always about the win. Sometimes the actual win is failure, because it will cause you to go back to the drawing board to figure out how to be better. For me, it is very important whenever I start something I do a lot of soul searching, a lot of talking with people in my family, and talk with my friends about whatever it is I’m planning on doing before I jump in. I don’t want to be someone who gets in the middle of something and at the first sign of adversity or tough times I quit or want to pull the plug.
In my life I have to fight that all the time. I am a planner and I always like to be looking ahead. But you have to be careful because you find yourself always looking for the next best thing. The next great horse, the next rodeo, the next good calf, the next year, the next rig, for some it might be the next season. If you’re always looking for the next best thing, you might miss out on what you have right now. In Psalms it says “For those that trust in the Lord have all that they need.” You have to remember that God has given you everything you need for the season that you’re in right now. If you don’t have it right now, you don’t need it right now. In 2 Samuel 12:8 God says “If you would have needed more, I would have given you more…”
When I was in my 20s, to my knowledge, I only had one picture autographed for me. It was from Shawn McMullan. He was signing autographs at the NFR and we got to talking and he was joking around and signed me an autograph. It was my first NFR and I hadn’t even won anything yet and he wrote on the picture “If it aint happenin now, it just aint happenin yet.” Little did I know that would be the only chance I ever got to get his autograph. Less than a year later we were in a car wreck together and he died. That picture is framed and hanging in my office still to this day and I look at it every day.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that out loud “If it aint happening now, it just aint happening yet.” I think it’s real important to use what God has given you to accomplish your mission for today. You have exactly what you need to fulfill your destiny. Don’t dismiss yourself or sell yourself short. You have the gifts, the talents, and the abilities to be able to get your job done whatever it might be today. So be confident in that. David just had five smooth stones. Sampson just had a jaw bone. Moses had a staff. Don’t underestimate what you have. You have all the right people, tools, and equipment to accomplish your mission. Now be confident enough to go reach your full potential today. If God breathes on what you have, you have more than enough.
God Bless and I’ll see ya down the line…
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