Job 1:21-22 (NASB) He said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD." Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.
In these verses, we see the making of a legend named Job. Job demonstrates to us the importance of standing inspite of circumstances, situation, or evidence. We see in through Job’s refining process, the revelation of a situation outcome, for each of us depends on our response. He illustrates in these few words, the epochal moment where obedience matter. When it is difficult, he became the model, example for generations to come. Embracing the truth is painful, while arguing proves nothing and becoming legendary requires understanding with it earnestly means to walk through the fire, and see between the raindrops. To lose yourself in pulse, the beat of the unseen realm of God’s grace. Where the by-product of holiness, shows forgiveness as a given for man, and there is no more me, but Thee.
Becoming legendary is making the connection grace and pure love has both legacy and longevity proven by Christ. When we learn to harness and put away our anger, and exchange it for the compassion radiates warmth untold. See, becoming legendary is believing in your true self, the authenticity of innocent that strengthens us to walk through our midnight, or trial with the same peace as if it is a bright summer’s day. Reminding each of us life is about choices, and choices are the springboard for our joy or pain. Letting us know outer beauty camouflages the inner truth, as stretching and uncomfortableness are façades of what is really happening to us, the creation of a clear and unfettered understanding of truth. Therefore, the next time you find yourself in a precarious state of affairs, either mental, psychological, emotional, or physical…ask yourself, do I want to become legendary, implicitly or explicitly.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
This to remember
I thought, I would share this with everyone. I am sure many of you have seen it, read it, and forwarded it, but this is the thing; it matters....See we do not stop hugging, smiling, kissing, or saying 'I love you' just because it was done before. Thus, i believe we should not stop encouraging, speaking into others life either, when the opportunity present itself just because you gotten it before...read and enjoy!@
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , OhioTo celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.5. Pay off your credit cards every month.6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood But the second one is up to you and no one else.20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.24. The most important sex organ is the brain.25 No one is in charge of your happiness but you.26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'27 Always choose life.28. Forgive everyone everything.29. What other people think of you is none of your business.30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 33. Believe in miracles.34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.37. Your children get only one childhood.38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.42. The best is yet to come.43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.44. Yield.45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , OhioTo celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.5. Pay off your credit cards every month.6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood But the second one is up to you and no one else.20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.24. The most important sex organ is the brain.25 No one is in charge of your happiness but you.26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'27 Always choose life.28. Forgive everyone everything.29. What other people think of you is none of your business.30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 33. Believe in miracles.34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.37. Your children get only one childhood.38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.42. The best is yet to come.43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.44. Yield.45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.
Powershifters: Destiny
John 19:30 (HCSB) When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!"Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Powershifters are individuals who find themselves in a position or place, where an occurrence, beginning with an action by the individual echoes. The change is not just for the people present, the location, or for the time period, but rather it creates a change that shapes and mold mindset and perspectives continuously. Powershifters makes changes which have longevity because it takes root, breathes life, flourishes without ceasing, and is relevant for all times. While what legacy creates, remains, from generation to generation to generation, whether the tangible, touchable presence is with us or not. All because powershifters give their all, no matter the circumstance, popularity, or cost. Not allowing negativity to take over, or become a stronghold on their path to destiny. They stay the course knowing, what is seen as their lost by man, is actually a gain for the masses, whether they see it or not. With a quiet, reliable, authentic spirit focused on eternal gains, realizing their goal is please the One above, God. See, powershifters realizes the implications of what we consider normal, and embrace as normalcy for us, is a flawed reality. They have no problem standing, speaking, and doing in such a way that reverberates. Let us not get caught up, and think it has to be a big thing, or it has to be something grand, we are, can, and should be powershifters in our own world. In our families, at work, in our church or place of worship, in all places where connections and relationships are presents or created.
See, we all have been empowered and are encouraged to be powershifters by Christ in the debt he paid. It is not just for the people or event such MLK, Azusa Street revival by William Seymour, Martin Luther, Woodstock, or Constantine bringing Christianity to the mainstream around the 3rd century. We are can be powershifters, if we seek the higher calling and not live for eye for an eye mentality, but change to live graciously and let God fight your battle. When we begin to see life is about choices which becomes our view on life, and letting go of the hurt, the pain, the anger, and the self-righteousness, are all negative emotions, we see, limited our ability because of our hurt, in various forms….Powershifters find the inner strength of illogical concepts, to man, yet connected to logic of God’s spirit to see the awesome power of submitting to God’s will is truly empowering and lighter. Each of us are powershifters! We just have to submit, trust, and obey the spirit and the truth…to be engulfed by the truth of these verses…
1 Cor. 2:9-10 (HCSB) But as it is written: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has never come into a man's heart, is what God has prepared for those who love Him. Now God has revealed them to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.
Powershifters are individuals who find themselves in a position or place, where an occurrence, beginning with an action by the individual echoes. The change is not just for the people present, the location, or for the time period, but rather it creates a change that shapes and mold mindset and perspectives continuously. Powershifters makes changes which have longevity because it takes root, breathes life, flourishes without ceasing, and is relevant for all times. While what legacy creates, remains, from generation to generation to generation, whether the tangible, touchable presence is with us or not. All because powershifters give their all, no matter the circumstance, popularity, or cost. Not allowing negativity to take over, or become a stronghold on their path to destiny. They stay the course knowing, what is seen as their lost by man, is actually a gain for the masses, whether they see it or not. With a quiet, reliable, authentic spirit focused on eternal gains, realizing their goal is please the One above, God. See, powershifters realizes the implications of what we consider normal, and embrace as normalcy for us, is a flawed reality. They have no problem standing, speaking, and doing in such a way that reverberates. Let us not get caught up, and think it has to be a big thing, or it has to be something grand, we are, can, and should be powershifters in our own world. In our families, at work, in our church or place of worship, in all places where connections and relationships are presents or created.
See, we all have been empowered and are encouraged to be powershifters by Christ in the debt he paid. It is not just for the people or event such MLK, Azusa Street revival by William Seymour, Martin Luther, Woodstock, or Constantine bringing Christianity to the mainstream around the 3rd century. We are can be powershifters, if we seek the higher calling and not live for eye for an eye mentality, but change to live graciously and let God fight your battle. When we begin to see life is about choices which becomes our view on life, and letting go of the hurt, the pain, the anger, and the self-righteousness, are all negative emotions, we see, limited our ability because of our hurt, in various forms….Powershifters find the inner strength of illogical concepts, to man, yet connected to logic of God’s spirit to see the awesome power of submitting to God’s will is truly empowering and lighter. Each of us are powershifters! We just have to submit, trust, and obey the spirit and the truth…to be engulfed by the truth of these verses…
1 Cor. 2:9-10 (HCSB) But as it is written: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has never come into a man's heart, is what God has prepared for those who love Him. Now God has revealed them to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Do you not see?
Matt7:1-6(NASB) “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?”Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.”Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Do you see? While we are looking at others, evaluating, and assessing them on our standards, we are missing what is really present before us. We are walking around focus on what is ephemeral and not eternal, what is an outward display and not the inward conviction, or what is hypocritical at best and not genuine. All because we have been allowed to think - I am helping him/her to grow, to develop, or enrich them self. When the real reason, we spend so much time and energy on trying to help, correct, develop, or enhance others…it is easier and less painful to address our own issue(s). Then we continue to miss or forget, the help is not desired, requested, or wanted, and our becoming infuriated on the refusal of our offering. Yet, we do not see, we have done, and continue to do the same. See, we have a habit of refusing, or ignoring truths when they come from a place, or people, we refuse to acknowledge have help for us…Do you not see, you cannot fix in anyone or yourself, what you refuse to believe, fail to acknowledge, or unwilling to accept the truth in you. We do not see how the failure to embrace the truth of a matter, no matter how painful it is, creates a stopgate from the peace to wash upon us. Where we receive the waiting state of forgiveness tranquility and find this conclusion about truth to resonate and resound in us - not allowing the conviction of truth to stop us from depending on man’s way, and begin depending on God’s way; results in our unrest and unsettledness. Do you not see, losing yourself into the pulse of God’s grace and unconditional love allows for one’s mind to flow between seen and unseen effortless, and comprehend that life is harsh, but grace is sufficient as obedience always protects…Do you not see?
Do you see? While we are looking at others, evaluating, and assessing them on our standards, we are missing what is really present before us. We are walking around focus on what is ephemeral and not eternal, what is an outward display and not the inward conviction, or what is hypocritical at best and not genuine. All because we have been allowed to think - I am helping him/her to grow, to develop, or enrich them self. When the real reason, we spend so much time and energy on trying to help, correct, develop, or enhance others…it is easier and less painful to address our own issue(s). Then we continue to miss or forget, the help is not desired, requested, or wanted, and our becoming infuriated on the refusal of our offering. Yet, we do not see, we have done, and continue to do the same. See, we have a habit of refusing, or ignoring truths when they come from a place, or people, we refuse to acknowledge have help for us…Do you not see, you cannot fix in anyone or yourself, what you refuse to believe, fail to acknowledge, or unwilling to accept the truth in you. We do not see how the failure to embrace the truth of a matter, no matter how painful it is, creates a stopgate from the peace to wash upon us. Where we receive the waiting state of forgiveness tranquility and find this conclusion about truth to resonate and resound in us - not allowing the conviction of truth to stop us from depending on man’s way, and begin depending on God’s way; results in our unrest and unsettledness. Do you not see, losing yourself into the pulse of God’s grace and unconditional love allows for one’s mind to flow between seen and unseen effortless, and comprehend that life is harsh, but grace is sufficient as obedience always protects…Do you not see?
It is, what it is
Hab. 2:15 (NIV) - "Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies"…Now this verse speaks of a giving drink, but what about the figurative drinks we distribute... how many of us have set others up to look stupid, silly, ignorant, incompetent, or uncouth. Maybe this is not you, but you have set others up, or create a situation, position that has failure as the end result. You believed, concluded because you were anger, your idea of justice, the hurt, some personal issue, or your selfishness overruled God’s way. Yet, you did not think anything of this actions and felt justified for taking this mean-spirit course of action because it okay in man’s world, but not in the Son of Man’s Grace. Let us flip the script, and now, think of when you were on the receiving end, not the giving end, of all this. How does it feel? Do you like it? Do you feel you were treated fairly? If you are like most of us, you never ever gave it any thought, and if you did, it was after the fact. Then, we are usually too embarrassed to go to the person, give an apology, and seek forgiveness for the wrong done because we would say to ourselves “I wouldn’t”; so we do nothing as fear and unforgiveness plague us. This is the process over and over again. But in this verse it states ‘Woe to him…’ this is usually not good, and it is a warning for us to avoid this kind of action because it is never good.
What am I trying to say, I think this verse in Daniel explains it best Daniel 3: 17-18 (K21st) - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." See the three Hebrews men got it. They understood we should not succumb to man’s way when it is in opposition to God’s way, no matter what. We are not in a literal life or death situation, but it is a spiritual one, as we seek man’s wisdom, over God without a second thought, more likely than not all because it is easier and we are comfortable with it...It is, what it is let us to do, because we do know better. We just decide, we do not desire to do better because of a hard-heart and distorted lens we are looking through...Truth hurts but it also allow you to understand what it means to walk through the raindrops, see the distinction in the snowflakes, and the love in the sunshine because that is where God magnificent shines and his touch is felt...it is, what it is...
What am I trying to say, I think this verse in Daniel explains it best Daniel 3: 17-18 (K21st) - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." See the three Hebrews men got it. They understood we should not succumb to man’s way when it is in opposition to God’s way, no matter what. We are not in a literal life or death situation, but it is a spiritual one, as we seek man’s wisdom, over God without a second thought, more likely than not all because it is easier and we are comfortable with it...It is, what it is let us to do, because we do know better. We just decide, we do not desire to do better because of a hard-heart and distorted lens we are looking through...Truth hurts but it also allow you to understand what it means to walk through the raindrops, see the distinction in the snowflakes, and the love in the sunshine because that is where God magnificent shines and his touch is felt...it is, what it is...
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