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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “No It’s Not 50/50, It’s 110%/110% Effort Needed”
Whoever came up with the false concept that relationships, whether family, friends, marriages, romantic ones, business collaborations, team sports, and especially our relationship with God, requires only a 50/50% effort, didn’t really study the entire scenarios of those situations. How can you only give “50%” effort and think you are going to survive the tests, notice I said “testS” plural, that require 110% effort all of the time? It may be valid if your expectation is to fail, because that’s exactly what the end result of that half effort is…..complete failure. And when you do fail because of only giving 50% , as opposed to 110%, you will fail miserably. Now don’t get me wrong, when it comes to God’s effort, He can get away with the 50% effort. That is because His 50% translates to about 500%, when you take into consideration all of His infinite capabilities and power. But WE can’t afford to have that mentality, because our 50% more times than not don’t even add up to that 50% does it? more like 40-49% depending on what mood we are in THAT DAY or moment. So tell me, how’s that 40-49% working out for you? So those of you out there reading this living in the pipe dream, that you only have to put out 50% in any kind of relationship, need to wake up and come back to reality…It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about “No It’s NOT 50/50, It’s 110/110% Effort Needed!” And AMEN goes right here! Now I am a realist, I do understand that there are times people don’t feel like giving 110%, and that doesn’t make you a bad person, it makes you human. However, if we were to think back over our lives if we could remember everytime we didn’t give 110% effort in a situation, it probably didn’t turn out the way you had hoped or dreamed it would, am I right? Ironically, it is human nature that when there is something we really like, or really want, we are more than willing to give 110% effort. Where is that same desire, when we are engaged in something that we also want, but are facing some sort of challenges? You see the difference? As long as it is something that comes easy, we are willing to give 110%, but let come challenges get thrown in, and our effort level drops drastically!
Where did mankind go wrong with developing this “failure mentality?” Where did this destructive behavior originate from? Surely it had to originate somewhere? It didn’t just pop out of the blue sky, somewhere, someone decided they were going to cause change and whether good or bad they were going to stick with it nomatter what the consequences were. Again I ask the question here, “how’s that mentality working out for you?” I guess if we go back and read our Bibles in the book of Genesis (which for those of you who don’t read your Bibles regularly, it tells about how God created everything.), Where it discusses Adam and Eve’s creation and their ultimate fall in the Garden of Eden. God did His part, and by His part I mean 110%. He created Adam first and then breathed life into him. Then, God realized that Adam would be lonely and that he needed a “help mate” to do His will on Earth, so He then created Eve, from one of Adam’s ribs and then breathed life into her also. Here’s where it gets really tricky, because God had certain expectations or “criteria” of what He expected out of Adam and Eve, if they were to pull their share of the relationship’s weight (110% not 50%). First He gave them “everything they needed to survive,” then, He gave them rules or “laws” that were to govern them in keeping with good fellowship with Him and from falling short of His Glory. One rule or “law” in particular God gave them, was never to eat of the tree with the forbidden fruit. Now remember, here Adam and Eve were in this beautiful garden paradise, with “everything” they “needed to survive”(notice it doesn’t say “that they wanted” but NEEDED), right in front of them just for their enjoyment. But God placed a tree in the middle of the Garden Paradise with fruit on it that they were not to touch, nomatter what the circumstances, it was “forbidden.” Adam was pretty much content with abiding by these laws, and believe it or not so was Eve, “at first.” They lived happily and fruitfully in the Garden of Eden in the very beginning, until one day when they separated for a brief period of time. Now let me explain that comment about them being “separated,” they were spending time away from each other at one particular point in time, and it probably cost them more than they could ever imagine. Because during that one little brief stint moment in time, Eve became distracted from the leadership and guidance of her mate Adam, and was tricked to believe she wasn’t receiving 110% of Adam and God’s effort. She knew Adam and God were close, but what she apparently didn’t realize, is that she was just as important in God’s eyes, and especially in Adam’s. God felt Eve was important enough in the grand scheme of things that He created her to be a “helpmate” to the being He created to rule Earth just like He ruled Heaven! That’s pretty important in my mind! The serpent caught her by herself, and in a brief moment, he had caused a division, or rift, casted just enough doubt in her mind that she “didn’t have it going on like she could have it going on, if she knew what God knew. Sad part is, Adam and Eve had all the information they needed per God requirements, to maintain that 110% effort level in their relationship with Him. This is where Eve first, and then Adam started to put forth less than their required 110% effort level and where the relationship started to breakdown. It became a domino effect as the effort level dropped more and more with each passing day….
After Satan caught Eve by herself, and planted that seed of doubt in her mind, about how good she really could have it, “IF” she only knew “ALL” that God knew. She fell for it hook, line, and sinker, forever changing the Spiritual landscape not only for her and Adam, but for the rest of the entire world and generations after generations, to come. That is until what some scholars call “The Second Adam” aka Jesus Christ came along to rectify what they messed up. The moral to the story as it pertains to THIS subject, is that taking shortcuts or not putting forth at least 100% effort in your relationships of any kind, but especially with God, will cause division in that partnership, relationship, or collaboration involving two or more people. Look at how easy it is in today’s society for couples to split up, fade apart, become estranged, or worst at each other’s throat? Politicians in DC who refuse to put forth that 110% effort on BOTH sides of the party line fences. Churches that once thrived in Love and unison, to be fighting and at each other’s throats and even splitting right down the middle, Parents and children or even family members in general, who nolonger get along and respect each other, business partnerships to end because of the effort level being either one-sided, or lopsided. No relationship will be easy, so you might as well delete that thought from your mind right now, not the one you have with your parents, your kids, lifelong bestie or homie, your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife, business partner, our local and even Federal Politicians, or your Church, and last but most certainly NOT least, with God. It requires hard work, dedication, and commitment, if you want it to be built on a strong foundation that will be built to last and stand the test of time. If you start to put forth any less than 110% at anytime, you leave the door wide open for your counterpart to be overwhelmed with all the burden, stress, and hard work needed to make that relationship succeed, and even worse, Satan to creep in and wreak havoc on that relationship. A lot of the problems caused in relationships of any kind today, are self-inflicted, because no outside force could come in and cause any damage, if the parties involved at totally committed to giving that 110% effort at ALL times, and both or all of them keep up their end of the bargain “effort wise” and never letting that effort level drop below 100%, even when you don’t feel like putting out that much effort. And there will come times when you do feel that way, that’s when you have to “by all means necessary” make yourself dig down DEEP and find the motivation to keep putting out at least that 100%, but 110% would be way better just to make sure you don’t fall victim to being guilty of not carrying your share of the weight of the relationship. Just like a scale, if one end of the pendulum has more weight added to it than the other, that scale will be tipped out of balance and the extra burden will be placed on the one side of the scale causing it to tip over. All of our relationships have to include at LEAST 100% effort or the success rate will plummet. If you only put into that relationship 50% (on your best day), your chances of success will only be about the same 50% of success, which we both know isn’t good at all. We are not God, nor do we have His unlimited resources to not have to give the full 110% effort. Believe it or not, we do have access to His unlimited effort and capabilities if we just do our part in the relationship. Make it a person challenge to yourself to always give 110% in everything you do in life, but especially the relationships you are involved in of any kind. Can I leave you with a question to ponder today if I may?
“How much effort are YOU putting into your relationships, 50% on a good day, or 110% everyday?”
Can I get an Amen????
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ 100%! Afterall, isn’t that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross?”
~Long Live Real Cowboys~
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