How do you define yourself? How do you see yourself?
We all live in boxes. Inside your box is the stuff and circumstances of your life. All you know and believe, all your experiences, your community and neighborhood, city, town, and country, your church, titles and education, the relationships of your life, and you are all inside that box.
From the outside, most boxes look alike, but when you see what is inside, no two boxes are the same. They are all quite similar and yet very different. They are all boxes, but they all hold different stuff.
Your box is your world. But it is not the whole world. How you see yourself is monumentally important, but almost always, you see yourself within your box, and that is a mistake.
Occasionally, someone stands up and looks outside his box. He looks up and beyond his box. He sees more; he catches a glimpse of another Way, the only Way to fulfill his divine potential, the only true standard, the One Thing.
“What manner of men (and women) ought ye to be?” Christ is the model. That is the paradigm. Think outside the box.
Otherwise, you will rise no higher than the best of your box, which is far less than your true potential.
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