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More Faith, Less Questions
I applaud how ready people are to give glory to God when they’re receiving the things they want out of life; good jobs, education, a dream relationship, more money, fancy cars, big houses or all the other things your heart and mind desire. I only wish I saw more praise of how good God is when the chips are down; passing of a close friend, laid off, short on money, health issues, or any situation that we tend to think is bad.
Too often, we forget what we want is not what we need. We forget that God is an enabler helping us to fulfill our needs, and not a God that’s supposed to just give us what we think we want. It’s sad to see so many forget to praise him during tough times, or waiver in their faith at the first hint of a tribulation, or fail to understand our trials and what we get from them ARE the right on time blessings we need.
I wish more people understood the sincerity of your faith and how you conduct yourself during the tough times is more important than being boastful of God’s grace when things go your way. You want others to believe, you have to become stronger and more consistent in your beliefs, in your FAITH, and in your understanding that God is always there no matter the circumstance. FAITH!!!
Dreams
When you’re young, you have dreams. Intergalactic dreams that everyone encourages you to pursue. Impossible dreams that everyone around you say are possible if you just work hard and put your mind to it.
As you grow, those same people, many of whom have fell short of their own dreams, start to question the validity of your dreams. They start referring to your dreams as far-fetched pipe dreams. They follow it up with discouraging words like impossible and phrases like time to face reality. They continue piling it on by sharing their unsolicited stories of failure. Stories of dreamers, far more determined and talented than you who have failed before; don’t waste your time they say.
Eventually they get downright nasty. They start calling your dreams worthless, and you shiftless for having them. They form coalitions of former dreamers and people who are afraid to dream. They attack you in packs like gangs for being different. They hold you, hit you, stomp you while you try to protect yourself. All in an effort to force you to lose your grip on your dreams. They want to take them away from you. They want you to conform. You defiantly refuse! You hold on to your dreams with the protectiveness of a mother protecting her newborn. You take your lumps but won’t yield. They call for reinforcements, but you continue to fight.
One day, you find yourself completely surrounded by people who treat dreams like fantasies. Doubters who don’t believe in the impossible. The defeated who have given up and replaced their dreams with the common sense of conformity. You are cornered by your archenemy. Outnumbered by the opposition that are standing in the way of your vision. They are impeding your progress with the obstacles of doubt and fear. Advising you every step of the way to give up, give in, and to become more like them.
They pose as your friends so they can get close to you. They tell you they only want what’s best so you’ll trust them. They are that little voice sitting on your shoulder that makes you doubt your dream right before you’re about to jump out of this world and into the arms of greatness…
Uncertain if you have it in you, you pause, pray, and listen….
Are you scared now?
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We
We are not victims. We are not powerless. We are not products of our environment destined for failure because that’s all we’ve been surrounded by and all we see. We are children of God with the ability to reach the highest levels even when we’ve come from the worst circumstances.
When you hear someone say they didn’t have a chance. When you hear someone say they are who they are because of how and where they grew up. When you hear someone shrug off their failures, their behavior, their inadequacies because they are nothing more than a product of their environment. Pause, and then scream in their face as loud as you can. Scream in their face with spit flying from your mouth for effect. Scream in their face until you know they are listening, and then tell them the TRUTH!! You are not a product of your environment, you are a product of your excuses.
Failure starts with an excuse because it allows us fall short without taking any responsibility for the outcome. Excuses allow us to cop-out; to quit without trying. Excuses give us the ability to accept our failure. People who refuse to make excuses don’t fail because they can never wrap their mind around accepting, that they, a child of God is incapable of accomplishing something that God gave them the ability to do. People who don’t make excuses don’t fail because they refuse to quit trying until they succeed or they die.. and if they die first they didn’t fail, they just ran out of time.
The choice is simple, quit making excuses and focus on making moves or move out of the way for the people that don’t have time to make excuses. — http://www.seanking.net
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