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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Your Breakthrough Is Packaged In Ordinary”
Good Morning Saints! How are you doing this morning, good I hope? I also hope that you have been having a great work week so far? We are almost to the weekend, only one more day right? Let’s make the best of it and finish the work week up strong! Listening to a sermon by Ron Crawford this morning, he was speaking on the subject of “Is This It?” in referring to how “ordinary some of our lives are right now and the frustration that can set in when we don’t see any possible extraordinary things happening to us in the foreseeable future. He went on to talk about how some of us will never experience anything “breakthrough wise” because we are so Spiritually blinded by what we believe the package should and more importantly WILL be wrapped up in. It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart today to talk about “Your Breakthrough Is Packaged In Ordinary.” And AMEN goes right here! Now when we think about the word “Ordinary” it is a very sombering and boring word isn’t it? Why? Because who likes being “Ordinary,” in a world where even people without any special skills or talents have been glorified through ratchet (aka Ghetto) reality television shows. And this feeling is ten times worse, if you grew up in an atmosphere of mediocrity such as the ghetto, projects, or aka poor neighborhood. Think about it, those of you who might have been raised up with a silver spoon in your mouth probably wouldn’t understand the struggle of being so “ordinary” or mediocre that you can’t even daydream or fantasize about having anything extraordinary or spectacular to look forward to in your future. This is one of the main reasons, so many parents try to push their kids into sports, hoping they become the next Lebron James or Michael Jordan, Or Tom Brady, Jay Z, George Strait, David Beckham, etc…..
However, it is hard to fathom that when you’ve been raised in an “ordinary” family, who lives in an “ordinary” community, and whose friend base or “posse” are made up of “ordinary” people, and if you attend Church services regularly, you are a member of a Church filled with like-minded “ordinary” Christian people, and you go to a job everyday that you are also surrounded by yep you guessed it, “ordinary” co-workers. Not me, I work with some very “extraordinary” folks! I’m being sarcastic here, my co-workers are very entertaining to say the least and there is never a dull moment in my department LOL! We have a lot of good clean fun “shuckin and jiving” with each other on a daily basis! And it makes the day go by faster too. I wouldn’t trade my co-workers for any others! Okay, now back to this message! Read this Bible verse over and over a few times, so that you can see what God wants to do in each of our lives, “The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.” – (John 10:10). Now, if that is what God has in store for each of us, there should be no way possible for us to not believe that we can have way better than just “mediocre and ordinary” lives. Pastor Crawford made another powerful statement that I’ve heard said different ways many times, but for some reason the way he said it just made it resonate in my mind, body and soul……… “If you were to read the Bible from cover to cover, Genesis to Revelation, you would not find ONE single instance where God called, anointed, or appointed anyone who were already considered to be “extraordinary” to do anything for Him. For example, Moses was a stutterer and yet God called him to go to Pharaoh and deliver the most powerful message in the history of the Israelites – “Let My People Go!” The significance of this if I can just keep it 100% real with you, is that what are the chances you would believe a person who stutters would be sent by God to deliver you a message? Slim to none if we are telling the true…..
Those of you who are “stuck in ordinary or mediocrity,” is it possible that the reason you are stuck there is because your vision of what your breakthrough came packaged in wasn’t as pretty and perfect as you thought it would be? Remember, the Bible says that “the Kingdom of Heaven is like Treasure is buried in a field.” Meaning God buried it under layers and layers of dirt so that we had to dig, or peel back those layers of dirt to get to it. Still don’t’ get it huh? Let me try and break it down like this, God will anoint some of the most MESSED UP people you know, to have the supernatural Spiritual ability, to bring, deliver, divulge, some of the most power Blessings (Treasure) directly from God to you! But, because our so called “perfect” judgmental human nature minded opinions of those type of people are normally so low, that we will be too busy judging them to even realize they have had the instructions of how to receive our breakthrough and therefore we miss it, time and time again! If we were learn to look past the outer shell, wrapping, or “layers of dirt”, and realize the treasure and Blessing they are trying to deliver to us, could have only come directly from God himself. We would not have remained stuck waiting on the breakthrough all this time. Whether or not you believe it or not, you would have just given God the Glory He was seeking in the first place! And there should have been a lot of AMEN’s after that statement! Boy talk about a tough crowd, I’m not getting hardly any virtual AMEN’s??? That’s okay, I know that it means I’m speaking truth, and it is hitting home with you right now. And well while I’m at it, the more you don’t give me those AMEN’s when you know darn well I’m preaching better than you are responding, because you don’t like the truth that’s being fed to you right now, it is YOU not me who is missing out on God’s Blessings. Until you stop expecting Hollywood’s version of how God delivers breakthroughs to us, using booming lightening, and a powerful voice from the heavens, and a gleaming light, you’ll never be able to truly see God’s work. Can I leave you with a question today if I may?
“Are You Missing Out On Your Breakthrough Because You Are Worldly Blinded Of What The Messenger Is Supposed To Look Like?”
Can I get an AMEN?
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, He did it for you!”
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