Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this Monday morning, good I hope? Did you have a good weekend, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day today and rest of your work week too! - 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 – “Hurt People, Hurt Other People…”
Today’s thought for today actually came to me yesterday as I was sitting in Church. We watched a short motivational movie called “Wonder” and I must say that it is a must see for elementary, Junior High, and especially High School age kids. But also, it is a great movie for adults to watch too. I won’t spoil the movie for anyone who might want to see it, I’ll just say that it was a very powerful movie about how to treat people and also how to overcome the way we perceive ourselves based on other people’s opinions. With that being said, it is with this train of thought or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “Hurt People, Hurt Other People…” That right there will Preach all by itself! And AMEN goes right here! When you start talking about people being “hurt,” you are stirring DEEP in their kool aid aren’t you? I mean, the one thing most if not all people try to hide is the hurt that have suffered at some point and time in their lives. The problem with this mentality of holding it is, is that you think you are suppressing that pain from the world, but in reality, you are letting it seep out of you in ways that you might not even realize. I can tell you from not only past experiences, but even current experiences that when you are hurt in anyway form or fashioned deep enough, it will affect you in a big way and not for the good. I will become very transparent right now and say that some past and not so distant past hurts that I have experienced from the people closest to me has shaped my perception of family, friends, and even the romantic situations I have been involved in. When you have people you trust with your life betray you, use you, and or intentionally try to hurt you for no other reason than just because they feel they can, it does some serious damage to you whether you admit it to anyone or not. I am admitting mine to you all right now. I have NEVER hurt anyone intentionally, that I can honestly say without a second of hesitation. However, I HAVE hurt people in my past. Does the fact that I didn’t do it intentionally, change the fact that I did it at all? The answer is NO it doesn’t. When you hurt someone for whatever reason, you may not know or realize it, but you cause damage to that person(s) that can and most likely will turn into a domino effect. And AMEN goes right here too!
My “Spidey” senses are tingling right now LOL, I can sense some of you looking at me a little cock-eyed like a mule about to kick! “What is he talking about, I haven’t hurt anyone. Hurt? Ain’t nobody ever hurt me before, I am too tough to ever let that happen! He must be weaker than he looks, because there’s no way anyone could hurt a big rough and tough Cowboy and athletic dude like him!” You would be wrong on all accounts. Our vulnerability to being hurt has nothing to do with being physically strong and tough. Anyone even the strongest man on this earth right now can be reduced to almost an ant in mentality if the right person comes along and uses the right approach or tactic to hurt them! That my brothers and sisters is a proven fact! You don’t believe me, I bet if Sampson from the Bible was here today he would tell you that you are very wrong! (read Judges chapters 13-16) It was LOVE, not the Philistine army that destroyed Sampson. He was said to be the strongest man in the Bible, yet his love for a Philistine woman named Delilah cost him everything. I pause here, because this seems like a very good place to ask a question. What would cause Delilah to betray him for a payment of 5,500 silver shekels when Sampson loved her unconditionally? Although the Bible doesn’t clearly state it, Delilah had to have something internally she was dealing with that would allow her to betray the man that tried to love her. I guess next if I could call a witness to testify about their hurt, pain, or maybe just self-damage to come and their issues they were dealing with hurt other people would be Eve. If we could ask her why did she allow the serpent (Satan) to tempt/trick which ever you prefer, her into eating of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, I bet you would find that there was something internally that she was dealing with that caused her to have a brief moment in judgment lapse that resulted in chaos, pain, misery, and even death for generations that are even still being born today! Her pain as I understand it from the Bible, is that she wanted to feel like an equal to Adam and God. She never realized that although Adam and God were very close, her position in that situation was just as important because God created her to be a helpmate for Adam. Of course us men folk know, that no woman is satisfied unless they are in complete and total control of every situation LOL! Men, can I get an AMEN??? Okay let me get on back to my message for today, I feel the deep hard stares I’m getting from all the women folk reading this devotional right nah. LOL! And AMEN goes right here too! LOL!
I would be willing to bet that if we could go back in time and talk to Lots wife, she would tell us that the reason she looked back at the destruction of the two cities Sodom and Gomorrah, was because there was something deep down inside of her from her past that resulted in a mentality of feeling she would miss the sinful life more than she might enjoy the Saved life. Why else would you look back when God specifically warned you not to, after giving you and your family time to escape His wrath on those evil cities? Then there’s young King David, the man after God’s own heart as he is described in the Bible. Oh come on now, surely if you read your Bibles you know David? He is known for slewing (aka killing) the Philistine Giant known as “Goliath” with just a sling and three smooth stones! Talk about a great feat! He then would go on to be named the second King of Israel with King Saul being the first. But when Samuel first came to David’s father’s house to anoint the next King of Israel to succeed Saul, David wasn’t even allowed to come in the house at first. His own father Jesse tried to keep him from even being given the chance to be seen by the prophet Samuel for that purpose at first. This hurt David deep and bad. Imagine being shunned by your own father in not being good enough in his eyes to even be considered to be chosen for something good and in this case great? Ironically, that happens all day everyday in our world today doesn’t it? How many parents do you know who never allows, or encourages their children to be great, not realizing that it will hurt them and or affect them in ways that will impact their lives for years and years to come! I guess it is safe to assumed that young kind David was the “Black Sheep” of his family. I can relate to David in this aspect because I too wear that label in my family. And if I’m being honest, it has deeply affected me for a number of years as well. However, I learned recently that the best way to deal with having or wearing that title, is to turn it over to God and WHEN not if He confirms that you are special in HIS eyes, you don’t have to worry about what everyone else thinks! And AMEN goes right here too! In bringing this to a close, I would challenge you to somehow, someway, make it a point to deal with the hurts and pains you are carrying around in order to bring peace to your life. Give them to God if not someone else that you totally and completely trust to help you get through them and make peace with them. Carrying around that weight is more damaging to your Soul than anything you could ever imagine. Even if it means letting go of things, and even people that has or IS causing that hurt and pain in your life. It is just not worth it! Can I leave you with a question to ponder and answer if I may?
“Are YOU A Hurt Person That Is Hurting Other People Right Now?” Can I Get A Honest Answer and 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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