I know you have Goals, but your Standard is the Gold!

If not mindful, getting to the Top can be met with so many compromises! The envelope push can feel like it is justified, because you are confronted with so much adversity in obtaining your goals. There will be solicited and unsolicited advice. You must learn how to respect The Game enough to know that you do not know everything, all while remaining untainted from everything that is not intended to bring about God’s expected end.

Habakkuk 2:2 says, “Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.” It is one of the most misinterpreted passages of scripture! Habakkuk was being instructed to write down what God said. Goal Setting most certainly has its place, but our plans must be written upon our hearts, absent of a permanent marker. God has a way of removing, adding, dividing, and totally revamping what we thought our lot would be and how He desires for it to be fulfilled.

“Yes Lord” could cause you to leave your bucket… the women at the well

“Yes Lord” could cause you to go before the king without being summons, for the preservation of your people…Esther (Hadassah)

“Yes Lord” could keep you on a cross you had the ability to take yourself off of… Jesus Christ

Our personal “Yes Lord” has to leave room for Him to touch our goals and place a Standard that has the backing and attention of Heaven. People love what the Crockpot produces, but despise the time needed to create it. We shun the discussion related to years in the making and are smitten by the thought of being an overnight success! The foundation of a thing should have our attention in and through the various stages of the goals coming to fruition.

The Standard should never be seen as overrated or negotiable. We pick and choose where the Standard should take residence. We want a Standard concerning the food that we consume to the regulations for an aircraft to fly. So, the want for Standards did not evolve, it is what we connect its importance to, when it really boils down to it!

We will continue to strike gold when the Standard is respected and adhered to! God has a way of perfecting what concerns us when we carry out His Will. God not only empowers us to carry out His Standard, but He also places a resolve in us to want to take the road less traveled to hit those goals!

Divine Work & Pray:

Work:

Jot down in your Divine Design Journal some goals that you are working on and next to each one, write out the Standard that you will use to remain uncompromising.

Pray:

Father God, I present my goals to you. I desire your blessing over what my hands produce. May the posture of my heart be in tune with You pointing out any and everything that would try to get me to abort Your Standard simply to acquire Success. My prospering is in glorifying Your Name and recognizing that Your Standard is what I long for. My goals being met will not be my greatest accomplishment; rather it is to do the Will of the One who sent me and to live by Your Standard!

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