By Carlos C. Brown
Good Morning Peeps, how are you and yours doing this “Throwback” Thursday morning, good I hope? Are you having a good week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day today and rest of the week too! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2019 and Beyond!!! And AMEN goes right here….
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“This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it!”
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A Christian Cowboy Perspective:
Thoughts For Today – “You Need To Cowboy UP!!!”
By Carlos C. Brown (Author of "The Third Eye Perspective" Book of Devotionals)
By a show of virtual hands raised, how many of my readers have ever heard the phrase, "Cowboy Up?" Come on, anybody??? Well I'm very confident that if you are involved in, or have ever spent any time around ranches, rodeos, or just Cowboys and Cowgirls in general, you have. However, If you haven't heard that phrase before, chances are you have not been around very many real cowboys or cowgirls and showed a moment of fear or weakness! That phrase got alot of notoriety after the movie "8 Seconds," the Biography of the great bull rider Lane Frost." Lane had just rode a bull that was meaner than mean, until the whistle blew, but was stomped in his lower midsection (the jewels lol) pretty hard after he dismounted. His body was rackin with pain and all he could think about was quitting and going back home to his family's farm. But his traveling partner and good friend, none other than the great World Champion bull rider Tuff Hedeman came in to see him. When he had gotten his fill of Lane's "belly-aching" about wanting to quit and go home, Tuff looked Lane squarely in his eyes, and as sternly as he could, said five words that totally changed Lane Frosts' future as a bull rider......"you need to Cowboy Up!"....well there were two other words in that phrase, one that I don't think is appropriate for me to type in a Christian Devotional, but it help put a lot of emphasis on the encouragement he was giving Lane. LOL! Lane looks at Tuff with a stunned look at first, as if to say "Did you just say that to me, how dare you talk to me like that I am LANE FROST!" but then he takes a deep gasp/breath and the next scene in the movie, Lane is back aboard of another mean bull riding him to victory and blocking out all of the pain he was in previously...those words, that moment shaped Lane Frost into pro rodeo super stardom until his untimely death. It is with this train of thought, or line of thinking, that it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, "You Need To Cowboy Up!!" And AMEN Goes right here! For those of you who might still be wondering, the phrase actually means, "You need to put on your big boy pants and toughen up! Stop being weak and whiney and suck it up and git the job done regardless of your pain, your storms, your disappointments, or your frustrations."
The reference above reminds me of someone in the Biblical days, a feller named Jonah. Many of you Bible "thumpers" would know who Jonah was, and I'm sure there are a lot of children who also know who he is from the Sunday school classes. Because of the story of him being swallowed by a whale and staying in his belly for three long days and nights, after he was thrown overboard from a ship during a great storm. Jonah was not an unlucky storm or ship casualty, he was actually a prophet in his day in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. He was called by God to go to a city called Nineveh (A great Assyrian city) and prophesy the coming disaster because of the city's wickedness. The Bible says that Jonah "rushes" down to Joppa and takes passage on a ship that would carry him in the OPPOSITE direction, thinking he would escape God. Pause, anyone who is stupid enough to really believe they can run from God, has a few screws loose in their head. This is where the story gets interesting, while thinking he was escaping God and God's calling over his life, it is here in the story where the storm showed up out of nowhere and the sailors on the ship with him quickly realized who was the cause of the storm. Pause......how unlucky would it be to be blamed for an act of Nature? That has to be one of the best blaming moments in the history of laying blame right? LOL! Jonah has to be pretty famous during Biblical times, because there is a book in the Bible (Jonah) written under his name! Jonah was under divine instruction from God to travel to the city of Nineveh to warn them of His impending divine wrath, because of their sinful behavior. Here is a twist to the whale story, the very reason the storm blew up all of a sudden in the first place, was because Johan had disobeyed God and the sailors knew it. They believed that if they threw Jonah overboard, they would be able to save their ship. While in the stomach of the huge whale, Jonah prayed and commits to carrying out Gods purpose. This time Jonah obeys and travels to Nineveh and prophesies to its inhabitants, "In forty days, Nineveh shall be overthrown." You can imagine what the people there thought when they first heard him say that, but after a while they actually started to believe it and even began to proclaim a fasting. In my twisted or very warped mind, which ever you prefer lol, I can just imagine God sitting up there in Heaven on His mighty throne, looking down on some people (so-called Christian folk) and shaking His head as He takes a deep frustrated gasp, and thinking, "Oh ye of so little faith, thou claims to have the Faith of a mustard seed as long as things are going good for you, but thou tends to throw thou hands up at any little sign of adversity..............you need to "Cowboy Up! I breathed the breath of life of a fierce warrior in each of my Christian children so act like it"...Apparently, someone needed to grab Jonah, shake him a few times and tell him...."You Need To Cowboy Up!" Can I get an AMEN?
Yes I know that was a stretch, but you get my point. And if not, here is the point I was trying to make. God didn't say the Christian journey would be an easy one. Actually, He said the Christian journey is one full of trials and tribulations, but very much worth it in the end if we endure and keep the Faith and fight the good fight". So stop disappointing God with your frequent "lack of Faith moments" over minor bumps in the road of life. And get tough aka Cowboy, or better yet "Christian Up!!!"
Can I get an Amen????
"Today, choose to "Ride or Die" with Jesus Christ 110%! Afterall, isn't that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross at Calvary?"
~Long Live Real Cowboys~
K-Love’s Encouraging Words:
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will never be shaken.
Psalm 62:2 (NLT)
We use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
2 Corinthians 10:4 (NLT)
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