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order to fulfil God's will for your life, you'll have to deal with what
other people want you to be. Your boss wants you to be more productive.
Your health club wants you to be fitter. Your credit card company wants
you to be deeper in debt. It seems like everybody has an agenda for
you, and, if you spend your life trying to meet their expectations,
you'll never be free. Sometimes loving people means having to disappoint
them. Seeking to become the person others want you to be is a shallow
way to live. Nobody can tell you exactly how to change, because only God
knows. Even you can't tell yourself how to change, because you didn't
create yourself. To love someone is to desire and work toward their
becoming the best possible version of themselves. And the one person in
the entire universe who's qualified to do this is God. Unlike people,
God has no hidden agenda or unmet needs that He's hoping you can help
Him with. He knows what the best version of you looks like. He delights
in the very idea of it, and is already working to bring it to fruition
in your life. The Bible says, '...In all things God works for the good
of those who love Him...' (Romans 8:28 NIV). That means God is at work
every moment to help you become His best version of you. And you'll only
be truly free when you make up your mind to be happy about being the
person God meant you to be--the one He's working on every day.
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