If you're a genuine non-joiner like me, the last thing you want is to be lumped together with others as "usual" or "same old story." I don't want to be cast off as "just like the others," not because I want to be different but because I hate the trend or prevailing flow, I don't like the way things are. I hate the fad. I hate to join the club because it's gone awry.
For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one's resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world. [1 John 2.16-17]
"Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!" [Psalm 37.7]
Everyone's uneasy and keeps moving around to be seen as proactive, productive, and achieving something--anything--and anything contrary is labeled reactive. Don't believe them. Don't be like them. Moving around and accomplishing lots of things often do not mean anything. But they that wait on the Lord shall mount up with wings like eagles.
3. Zero self conceit. Self conceit is when you think you're somebody or something when you're not. Truth is (this truth may be subjective), we're all nothing and nobodies before God and his grace and mercy alone make us enjoy his attention and love. Once you get this truth, you show yourself apart from the crowd.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. [Isaiah 40.15-18]
If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important. [Galatians 6.3]
4. Success is an illusion. Remember always that any idea or hint of success is an illusion. Anything we do successfully is really done by God. We're simply devices or instruments God uses to accomplish things. The crowd wants to think they are great in some way or successful in some aspects, and brag about it, though they deny it each time---or claim it's for "God's glory." A lot of testimonies are stereotyped this way and people are tired of them. So don't join those who are fanatics about their imagined success.
All that we have accomplished you have done for us. [Isaiah 26.12]
5. Be alone. Find time to be alone with God most times. But don't get this wrong. Be sociable and make new friends and acquaintances. Connect with people. But don't feed on them. Some folks "eat" people and die of starvation when kept away from them. Feed on God and his presence, and learn to enjoy Him alone several times a day. In fact, as you're busy with life and work in this world, you need to learn to be alone with him in his throne room, his secret place, amid the busyness.
"Eat" God. 😎
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