Goooooooooood Morning Saints! Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours! How are you doing this morning, good I hope? For most, today is a day of celebrating their significant other in some special way and I hope that you make your significant other feel very special today! Have a good and very BLESSED Hump Day and Valentine’s Day! May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”
By a show of virtual hands, how many of you in my audience of loyal Third Eye Perspective followers have ever heard the song by the one, the only, MIZZ Tina Turner called “What Love Got To Do With It?” Come on now, surely more of you than I see hands up have heard of that song? It was one of her greatest hits! Part of the lyrics goes, “It may seem to you that I’m acting confused when you’re close to me, if I tend to look dazed I’ve read it someplace I’ve got cause to be, there’s a name for it, there’s a phrase that fits, but whatever the reason you do it for me, What’s love got to do, got to do with it, What’s love but a second hand emotion, what’s love got to do, got to do with it, who needs a heart when a heart can be broken.” Now today of all days, this song is very relevant and appropriate being that it is Valentine’s Day. People will have spent millions, maybe even BILLIONS of dollars buying sweet and romantic gifts that they hope to present to their significant other before the day ends, to make them feel special and truly loved. It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” And AMEN goes right there! If we were to define that word “LOVE,” we would find that the dictionary would state that it is – “An intense feeling of deep affection. Another definition defines it as – A feeling of deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone.” I’m curious, what is YOUR definition of that word? Everyone I’m sure could come up with a different way or either defining that word, and a million other ways of expressing it in their own way am I right? Some people will tell you that “LOVE” is the most powerful of all emotions! That left unattended, it can get you into some of the deepest trouble when allowing it to run around reckless. How many people that you know personally have been totally and completely destroyed due to falling in “LOVE” with the wrong person? How many other people do you know who have gone and done some of the most unthinkable things also in the name of love? The flip side to that, how many of you have either experienced, ARE experiencing, or maybe just witnessed the power of true “LOVE” in your life or someone else’s life? As I was pondering where all I would go with this Devotional, my mind was flooded with all different scenarios….I will share some of them with you now.
“LOVE” is something that you hopefully first experienced at your birth. When your mother held you for the first time and looked upon your sweet little innocent (or not so innocent LOL) face. Your father staring down at you with a sheer sense of pride and excitement, that is if he was man enough to be there to witness it. There are upsides to “LOVE”, and there is also the ugly downsides to “LOVE” as well. If we are fortunate, and that’s exactly what you would be, “Fortunate” if you got to experience being loved as a newborn baby, a preteen, then a teen, the right way growing up. Then you are able to go out into the world and not only FIND love, but also to know how to give it. However, if you did NOT experience that nurturing kind of love from your parents growing up, that can have the most destructive effect on you than just about anything else you will face in life. Too many parents don’t realize that a simple gesture of telling their children, “I Love You” everyday, can prevent so many future disasters in that/those child/children’s behavior in life and towards their significant other’s and also their fellow man (or woman if you will). I would be willing to bet, that as high as 75-80% of the violent crimes committed, the selfless acts of cruelty, etc… are a direct result of the perpetrator not being told “I Love You” enough growing up by their parents. Those people then go all through life negatively impacting, or should I say destroying one person after another’s livelihood all because they never felt nor learned how to truly love. I think back to my grandparents, and just the older generation in general. What they had/have, was in my opinion true “Unconditional LOVE.” They made sacrifices for each other without even being told to do it. The nurtured and cared for each other when needed, again without being asked to. They would risk their lives for their significant other, children or family, and even close friends, all because of that one four letter word, “LOVE.” Nowadays, for the most part, “LOVE” is fickle, fake, mostly based on materialistic gestures of “what can you do for me” type of things. People jump ship or bail at the first sign of trouble, instead of sitting down and talking thing thru to work things out. And people fall IN “LOVE” and out so fast that it leaves the other person wondering if true or real “LOVE” ever existed in the first place. It is like a bad epidemic spreading around the countryside like the flu.
I’m sure some of you are asking the question, “where are you going with this Carlos?” And I’m glad you asked, because here it is…..There isn’t but ONE true example of what real, unconditional, true “LOVE” really is, and that is the “LOVE” of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Think about it, how many of you right now reading this, would be willing to trade places if you had the chance knowing now what He had to endure? Let’s see, I don’t see any hands up over on the right side of the audience. Hmmmmmmm, don’t see any up out in the middle part either? Surely there has to be some, at least one up over on the left side? Nope, not a single one! I know, I know, maybe up in the balcony rows there will be one or two, and once again NOPE not a single one! That is because of the fact that we might have “good intentions” and all, knowing what we know now we would not be THAT willing to show someone else who some won’t even appreciate the gesture in the first place! Being born in a simple manger in an stable with all the stable animals? Deemed with the task of enduring preaching and teaching a message that will at the end of the day, get you nailed to an old rugged Cross, tortured, and poked and prodded with spears? Having a crown of thorns placed upon your head and then pressed down so hard that the sharp tips of the thorns puncture the soft skin coving your head? And if that wasn’t bad enough, to hang there from the sixth hour, all the way to the ninth hour in more pain than you’ve ever experienced before? All because your Father asked you to do it, I don’t see any of you doing that. And since we are being honest here, I don’t even see myself doing it either. YES, I am just as humanly flawed as you are and I’m not going to try and act like I’m not! That my dear sisters and brothers in Christ is what TRUE and REAL “LOVE” is! So while you are running around here on Valentine’s Day buying gifts to give with your significant other, in an attempt to tell them and show them how much you “LOVE” them, compare your level of “LOVE” you exhibit to them on a daily basis to that of what God shows us daily. I have no doubt in my mind, that if you did exactly that, compare it to God’s “LOVE” for us, you should have sometype of “LOVE” overhaul in how you show it not only to your significant other, but your children if you have any, ALL of your family members, not just the ones you like the most, and even the friends you hold dear and true to your heart as being your “Ride or Die” friends. It is time to stop playing games with “LOVE” when it comes to other people! The world is in a bad enough state due to the fact that true “LOVE” has been diluted, excluded, and perfectly eluded to by fake people for the sole purpose of gain over some unsuspecting person. God NEVER intended for “LOVE” to be used as a manipulation tool to fool and take advantage of others for anytype of gain. And just remember, “what so ever a man (or woman also) soweth, so shall he (or she) reapeth.” Can I leave you with a powerful question to ponder today?
“When it comes to you and your life, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” Can I get an AMEN??????
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that exactly what He did for us on the Cross?”
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