Worship your strengths, not your weaknesses

​How about you? Do you spend more time worshipping your strengths or your weaknesses?

Maybe my greatest weakness IS the amount of time I spend worshipping my weaknesses.

Have you ever thought about that? Because I am this morning.

I'm thinking about this truth that we all have strengths. The fact that we choose to focus on or lean into or wrestle with our weaknesses does not mean we have more weaknesses than strengths.

It means we spend more time worshipping them than our strengths.

I think about my writing. I know I'm a better writer than I was ten years ago. That's not because I suddenly found a writing strength. It's because I made a commitment to spend more time writing every day than I did telling myself I have no business writing.

I told someone yesterday that I admire the discipline they have eating so healthy. I said I wish I had that kind of discipline when it comes to nutrition.

I'm thinking this morning I should have said that different.

I think I should have said I wish I'd quit worshipping my weakness when it comes to food and start embracing the strength I already have in me to make the kind of choices that I really want to make.

Because just because I say I don't have the power to make better choices doesn't make it so. It just means I'm worshipping my weakness and not my strength.

How much stronger would we all be if we turned our heads toward our strengths and away from our weaknesses.

How much closer would we be to living out our potential if we leaned on our strengths all the way there instead of worshipping our weaknesses while staying right where we are?

I challenge you today. What weakness do you have in your life that is only a weakness because you worship it? You worship it instead of embracing the strength that would make that weakness a distant memory.

A dead toxic thought pattern.

You have strength in you. We all do. It's our common gift.

Just because you choose to worship your weaknesses doesn't make it untrue.

I encourage you today, worship your strength. You'll be surprised the places you'll go.