SECOND BEST

Do you ever feel like you are Second Best. Like you weren't the first choice but that you were a good alternate? Like you weren't the First Choice but the better choice at the moment?

Feel like things are more important than you are. That something is loved more than you are? Sometimes I get tired of being Second Best and wishing I could have been the First Choice. But then our life is here on this wicked earth and there are so many things that are First Choice and best we can be or accept is Second Best.

Bet God feels like that all the time...

No matter how many times you come in Second You are still always the looser....Guess I am.

SoulWeaver - Best lessons I have learned are from the hard knocks of life and because I do sit and think about things God has helped me see how He feels.

I am really sorry I have put God in Second Best Place and I need to put Him First always I will do that with His help. I need to quit compromising on a few issues myself and get my self back at Jesus feet where I belong.

Dad forgive me for making you feel Second Best.

Amen and I feel the same so much! Your post really speaks to me. When He confounds, this makes me wonder what is wrong. And He shows me what to correct. Right now He's dealing with the remnants of the last stronghold - pride! Its last sneaky remnants reflect in grumbling. I'm usually trying to keep contentment but there are weak moments, actually the learned ways from my past that I'm still un-learning. It stems from the "I deserve more" attitude. Why should I say so? I should be happy that my life has been spared! I react faster than I want sometimes, be displeased or offended for a split second, but what right do I have to be displeased or offended with any person or circumstance? Have I not also fallen short of His glory? Has my life not been spared - by the death of very God for me... HE DIED for me, what more could I be demanding to do or make for me? I am meditating on this and hoping to get here:
Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

With God's help I still have a long way to go. Tired of allowing sin a toe hold in my life and I have to stop compromising as no sin is a good sin. I need to learn to hate sin as God hates it. Hard when you think it is o.k. and you have done so much better than you were doing...But who is doing? Me or God am I really allowing God to come in and take control of my life? Am I fully surrendering to His will? Do I want to surrender to His will?

I mean I want to live and have fun isn't that o.k.? Don't I deserve a little fun out of life? See it is compromise and NO SIN IS O.K. The Wages Of Sin Is Death!!! I have to keep telling myself this and I need to submit myself to God and His mercy to help me be an overcomer. I thought I would loose me and who I was, but in reality God wants to make the Best Me that He can Make not what I am doing but what He is doing in my life.

I started writing this Blog for a different reason than what I am speaking to now because now I am really talking to me and my issues and not someone else's issue. I need to get the beam out of my eye before I can remove the speck out of my brother's eye. Funny how God gets you/me to see things more clearly....and Wow do I have a long way to go....Good thing God/Dad is patient with me.....Please help me now I pray. Amen

Forgive me if I posted anything presumptiously Sis... I'm in chastizement season now... it is like I see stuff for my own correction everywhere because that is what God tells me wherever I turn...
Anyways a good and serious post.

I always felt second best growing up (does anyone really ever feel first?) but later in life, I learned that there are so many others who are third, fourth, and fifth, etc. best. I'm now grateful to just be second best. Hey - best is still best!

Oh you know sometimes we have a pity party for one.....I was having a bad day actually not a good birthday. Not because I turned 60 that's just a number, but had plans that fell through and it was just non-eventful and disappointing. Something was said that made me feel second best and just went into that pity party for one... I am over it for now and will have a much better birthday next year even if I celebrate it alone. I only play these games once and learn from my mistakes....so no more second best for me as we are valuable in God's eyes so must start thinking like a princess warrior that I am and get with the program....lol

Hi JesusLives,

This is a inspiring Bible verse: Mark 10:31 "But many (that are) first shall be last; and the last first."

GBU, my sister in the Lord

You know, I'm thinking about something like this again just from a much better perspective for some reason today, we can also win the favor with God if we get hardcore enough in fighting for it... If anything, kings love surprises... that's how Eshter ended up at her spot next to the king...