What Do You Have To Offer TURNER

My husband was speaking at a leadership conference last month. As he was watching a video of that conference I walked in on the last part of the video. The section that I heard was, “We as people are so busy comparing ourselves to others that we forget what we have to offer.” I know that I’ve done that so many times. Not that I don’t think that I’m good enough, but yet sometimes I feel like I’m not worthy enough. Maybe I’ve sat by the sidelines watching too long putting other people’s dreams or aspirations before mine. I’ve always been a great cheerleader for everyone else. But the person who I should have been cheering for as well is myself. If I can share my heart maybe sometimes, I don’t feel like I have much to offer. But I know that’s not true because I look at my fruit, however, even still from time to time I wonder.

I often find myself comparing myself to other women. Questioning if I missed the mark. Then I’m reminded of numerous amounts of people in the Bible that were used later in their life. At that moment I start to encourage myself. Telling myself that I am enough. What I have is enough and I can be used by God in His timing and not mine. I was studying and I came across a woman in the Bible named Anna. Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in Luke 2:36–38 during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. “Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And coming in that instant she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of Him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.” Luke 2:36-38 NKJV. The Bible also speaks of the story of Naomi and Ruth and how Naomi had lost her husband and her sons, and she had to relocate with her daughters-in-law. It talks about her strength.

In my personal life I’ve seen two of my lovely sisters-in-law pivoting in their lives; one launching a successful total body Spa Care line and the other starting her own Marketing Business. Watching them reassures me even further that I will be okay and that my timeline isn’t His timeline. So, I refuse to compare myself to others. I’ll continue to cheer women on, and I know when it’s my time they will do the same for me. In honor of March being National Women’s History Month. Let’s go out of our way to be each other’s cheerleaders. Let’s strive to work together and not against each other.