My Advice: DON’T LET ANYONE’S ACHIEVEMENTS STEAL YOUR PEACE
Listen carefully. The day you start measuring your life by another person’s success is the day you begin to lose sight of your own journey. I want you to understand something very clearly: no one on this earth can take what God has prepared for you. Your destiny is not on auction. Your blessing is not in competition.
Someone else’s success is not your failure. Someone else’s speed is not your delay. Someone else’s testimony is not your rejection. It is simply a different path, a different timing, and a different assignment.
Comparing yourself to others is dangerous. It will make you rush God’s process, despise your small beginnings, and doubt your own value. And when you doubt your value, you begin to make wrong decisions just to “catch up.” But destiny cannot be rushed and purpose cannot be forced.
Instead of looking at people and feeling threatened, look at them and feel encouraged. Their success should say to you, “It is possible.” What happened for them is proof that the system works, that the door is not closed, that God still answers prayers.
Here is my advice to you:
Stay focused on your lane
Celebrate others sincerely
Develop your own gift
Water your own ground
Trust God’s timing
Keep improving daily
Pray without ceasing
Serve faithfully
When your time comes, it will be so obvious that no one will be able to deny it. Your reward will not just come — it will arrive at the right time, in the right season, and in the right way.
Never envy a chapter of someone’s story when you don’t know the full book. Sometimes, people’s achievements come with pressure, pain, or responsibilities you are not ready to carry yet.
So be still. Be faithful. Be consistent. Be grateful.
Those are the seeds that bring your own testimony.
Remember this always: What God cannot give you, you don’t need.
And what is meant for you cannot pass you by.
Walk in peace.
Walk in purpose.
Walk in confidence.
Your turn is coming.
Pastor/Counselor,
Wale-Rich Oladunjoye