try to rush it, you won’ t get the results you’ re looking for. The same is true of God’ s rootbuilding process in your life. God feels no pressure to rush or force His plan for our growth. He is calm, steady, and collected even when we want things to speed up. Our frustration will not make God speed up, because He knows we won’ t get the results we’ ve prayed for. Feeling Behind Over the years I’ ve realized many people are having a hard time thriving where God has put them because they feel behind. I was thrown off by this in my own life. There was a little voice inside of me always letting me know I was behind. To this day I still have to stem the flood of questions that make me doubt myself and where God has me:
“ Am I behind? Should I be farther along?” As a young man in my twenties, my sense of being behind was especially bad. I should know the Bible better. I should be a better preacher. I shouldn’ t be dealing with some of the struggles I’ m having. I should be a better leader. I should be a better pastor. I should have done this. I should be having a greater impact. I’ m just always behind. I read a lot of biographies in those days, and they all rein ¬ forced the idea that I was behind. I could tell you that Billy Gra ¬ ham was thirty-one when he met with a US president for the first time, that Martin Luther King Jr. was thirty-five when he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. I read those stories and
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