Your
Worth
11/22/13
Ever
get the feeling that your life has no meaning to it? All of us have
had that thought run across our minds sometime during our tenure on
earth. Ever wonder if someone would show up at your funeral when you
leave this physical life? These questions and many more similar to
them pose many different beliefs about how people would react after we are
gone. These settings are the ones that our enemy uses against us in
order to make sure that we do not issue our real authority and meaning to the
world. When these doubts come into our minds we need to remember
that we do have a purpose in life and that as long as we sit there and do
nothing, our true nature for our existence cannot be fulfilled.
There
is not a day that goes by in our lives that we feel inadequate or inferior to
others in some certain way. We humans have this complex that needs
to be fed every once-in-a-while to reassure us of our status and place in the
world. There are a great number of causes for these feelings to
present themselves and when they do we can always count on the world to make
sure we feel each and every pain possible while we are being attacked. There
are also days that these feelings seem overwhelming to our lives and the
outlook becomes dim or even un-seeable; the light has been shut off at the end
of the tunnel if you wish to put it in those words.
This
is usually when we cower down and go sit in some hollow and quiet place within
ourselves and mope for a while until we look around and see that the
surroundings have improved a little. But in reality when we have
these feelings that is the time that we need not to cower but to be aggressive
and prove to ourselves and our enemy that we are better and stronger than what
the world can throw at us. If we allow the world to defeat us in any
way our motions as a functioning unit will eventually cease and then the
feelings of unimportance will grow into a dynamic dysfunctional state that one
may never recover. This is why it is of the utmost importance that
we recognize and realize our potential that each and every one of us has within
our lives.
As
many of you know I am an avid soccer fan. I have played the sport
since I was in junior high, followed the various leagues around the world and
even coached a few games in the absence of the head coach of a team. When
I was young soccer was not the most popular sport in this nation so being able
to watch matches outside of the country was nearly impossible, and no one would
even dream about getting to watch a match as it was occurring; this was due to
the technological level of the world along with the fact that soccer was not
that popular so the effort would not have been extensive to promote such an
event.
As
time passed the country’s interests have peaked more and with the internet and
everything that it can generate, I now can watch almost any soccer match that I
wish and even choose which country’s league to watch as well. A
couple of years ago I located a website that kept the scores from the leagues
around the world and it updates itself every two minutes, so even though I am
watching one game I can flip over and get updates whenever I want from the
other matches that are being played at the same time, kind of like what
American football has now as well.
As I
was scrolling this website I came across a match that I really did not
recognize any of the teams that were playing. I stopped and took a
careful look at them and then switched to a new window and typed in one of the
team’s names. It pulled up the information page and began to read
about the team. It was a reserve team for one of the larger teams in
a league. So I switched back to the scoring page and looked at the
teams again to see what the score was and how much time was left in the
match. I then noticed something that I had not seen before on this
page and it was the word “OSBOLETE” in capital letters next to the names of the
two teams playing.
I
laughed at this site at first and then thought to myself that this was a
humiliating statement. Even though I had never heard of these two
teams before and I had no idea of why the website had put this word next to
these team’s names, I knew that if any member of these teams of any of their
family members saw this they might not take it too kindly. I know
that my junior high, high school, and state all star team scores never made the
front page of a major newspaper but even at my lowly league level our match was
never deemed “obsolete.” This simple word and circumstance can be
demoralizing to a person, team or nation if it is continually portrayed to them
as such and it is a great example of how words can and do hurt if we allow them
to be released into any direction.
Our
house is a nice house and our family enjoys its setting quite nicely. We
have plenty of space to live in yet not too much extra room for additional
items. Our house has two bathrooms in it and serves our needs with
no complaints. The upstairs bathroom is where all of us take our
showers and baths on a daily basis and we have finally obtained a routine that
everyone has the opportunity to take a hot shower or bath when they wish. For
the last few days I have noticed that one of my daughters had dropped a dime on
the floor. Of course being a teenager they would not dare pick it up
without being to do so, so the dime was left in its spot.
Each
morning as I performed my daily routine in the bathroom I noticed that no one
had picked up that dime and even though it was not in anyone’s way it was still
lying in the exact same spot that it was when it landed. I continued
to watch this dime not move for three straight days, until this morning when I
had completed my bathroom duties I picked up that dime and took it and placed
it into my change pile so it can be used. As I completed this task
God showed me a couple of things about our lives and how we perceive them
according to the world’s standards and according to His standards. I
had no idea that a while back that a soccer scoring website and a fallen dime
would have any connection to our lives, but both represent a Godly concept that
many of us often forget.
God
has created within our lives a unique ability in that we have the opportunity
to make things happen. It does not matter what we make happen or
think about doing in our lives, the potential for us to create an idea or to
place that idea into motion and make our lives better is a direct object of
Kingdom principles and how our lives were made to operate. If we
choose to sit around and not do what our talents have authorized us to do then
we become like the dime that is just lying around on the floor and not serving
what it was created to do. Each of us have a talent, gift or special
function that has been created within us and we need to understand that our
lives have this purpose and if we do not engage this purpose we are actually
destroying our life from within our core.
The
world is not going to pick you up, dust you off and place you into the perfect
setting so that you can function at your utmost potential. The world is
going to allow you to lay there on the floor and get trampled on or ignored,
which is the job of the world. We cannot afford to lie around as
this dime did, for we are not fulfilling our destiny that we have been created
for. It is evident that we have lost our desire to be productive
because we have become lazy due to the fact that we have been lying around for
so long that we have forgotten what it means to have any worth. If
that dime had any way of communicating with us I could guarantee that it would
be screaming out for someone to use it as it was designed.
There
is not one person ever created that is obsolete. Each person has a
potential to develop into the best human being who ever walked the face of the
earth. There will be billions of people who never make it on the
front pages of the newspapers or in the market headlines, but look at the
majority of those people and one has to ask themselves would I really want that
lifestyle anyway? A person does not have to be popular in order to
fulfill their mission and talents in life. Those soccer players
whose match was deemed obsolete had a goal during that 90 minutes of play and
that was to do their best for the club that they were representing. I
did not recognize who that team was and I had no clue of who those players were
but even though their names were not immediately recognized by the world, they
had talent enough to play for that team and one never knows who might be
watching that match and report a player or two to another manager.
Those
players recognized that they loved the sport enough to play at a common level
division and to see what happens during that match day. Life is the
exact same way in that we must participate at the level that we are on each day
so that we may fulfill our potential that all of us have inside. I
am not talking about drawing lines that serve as a boundary for what we can do
and who we can believe in, I am setting an example for myself and the
capabilities that I have; that is what I am referring to in this article. For
a long time we have allowed many detours to appear in our lives that have
stopped our progress as a nation and as individuals. We have limited
ourselves with how we think and what we want enough to end our status as the
greatest nation on earth.
If
our personal and physical lives are in this shape and manner, just imagine what
our inner or spiritual life is reflecting. We continually see our
country’s population become lazier by the week. The common “man”
does not even get out of their pajamas any more. There is a huge
difference between the poor and the lazy and even Jesus addressed this issue by
saying that a country will always have the poor, yet He mentioned nothing about
the lazy; that is until He was overturning the tables in the Temple! Yes,
I went there and I shall continue to go there until God shows me different.
There
are many of us who have been blessed enough to have the capability to invest
some of our hard earned money into the stock market. While I am not
going to dwell on this issue much the same concept applies to our lives as the stock
market. One has to provide a steady input to receive back gains from
your efforts. If one does not put any initiative into life then do
not expect to receive anything back in return and if one dares to have any
different opinion of this philosophy where their standard of living is
concerned, they are far less than poor, they are the definition of being lazy.
The
Church is now flirting with this lazy standard of living because of what she
has allowed into the confines of her heart. It is ok to accept the
hurting and the sinners of the world. Why? Because you
are one of these people and the Church accepted you, right? You have
been taught to be a living and thriving church which has allowed you to see
your potential yet you lie there accepting all of the benefits and do
nothing. You have purposefully accepted your destiny as being a lazy
church. If you want a good example of what the Church will be going
through, then watch the news every night or read the papers because this is
exactly what she will be experiencing very shortly.
God
calls us as individuals to live a fulfilled life, in every aspect that we can
conjure up. Yet we see humans squandering their lives each
second. Doesn’t this break your heart to witness? The
youth of today hold gadgets in their hands and have a deeper and more
meaningful relationship with that instrument than they do their friends or family. We
have allowed this vampirism to suck the life and willingness to thrive right
out of us and we are rapidly becoming zombies to life as we know it (I have
heard that somewhere before). God is calling for us to return back
to Him so that He can restore His life back into our inner beings.
We
were not made to sit around and do nothing. Being alive and active
is part of our dominion that we have inside us and it is our duty to make sure
that we exercise this dominion to the world. God loves us and it is
His desire that we live abundantly and have prosperity no matter which area we
choose to be accompanied. Your life has meaning and we cannot afford
to listen to what the world has to offer us concerning this matter. The
world’s standards are based upon a lie and if we accept this lie then we are
doomed to sit there on the floor as that dime, and to be honest we deserve
nothing more than that option if we choose to stay in that condition. But
God can use us and He does every day even if we do not realize it but in order
for us to accept this concept we must return to Him and allow His love to shine
through our lives once again. This concept applies to both on the
personal level and on the Church level and if we complete this life giving
activity within our hearts, the nations will soon follow as well.
DLB
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