Rule #1 (and it’s the only rule): NO RIDING ALONE ON THIS LIFE-LONG ROLLERCOASTER!
Seriously, before I provide my routine-confession, let me pose a quick question: Have you ever read an article or book (OR BLOG) and in that particular moment, the content was SO ON POINT with your life, making it almost feel like you wrote it? Or instead of you writing it, you felt like someone just pulled your card & read everything in your mental-inbox?
I know I ain’t the only weird person who’s felt that way before! Maybe once or twice you quote a person & GIVE THEM CREDIT, then after awhile you begin to say, “I’ve always said…!” Yo, preachers do it all the time. It’s like they’ll hear a sermon one day and enjoy it so much that the next time up, they’re preaching that meaningful message as if it came from on High!
For the record, let me just say there will be NO BITING HERE (well, I don’t have any intentions on BITING)!
I think it’s proper to give credit where credit is due because we’re not on this life-journey alone (although it often feels that way). There’s so much to learn from so many that only a FOOL would try to have all the answers and take all the credit!
I have a GREAT & DEAR FRIEND who decided to give my wife and I some love on his blog yesterday (http://www.blackinformant.com…good lookin out Duane)! The kindness he showed us along with an additional blog I read this evening(from someone whom I’ve never met) helped me regain the healthy perspective I needed to close out the day with my FAM. The timing of the two couldn’t have been MORE PERFECT! God truly is the best at “restoring the soul!“
The 2nd blog is from a pastor in Charlotte, NC (the Queen city baby) Pastor Steven Furtick who’s the lead guy at Elevation Church. He had a recent blog (see below or check him out at http://www.stevenfurtick.com/) that absolutely NAILED IT for me this evening. It was the right message for the right perspective…THANKS A LOT BRUH!!!
What’s interesting is that I may never get to meet Steve (I hope to, but there’s no guarantees). For that matter, I may never get to see my good friend Duane again (I DEFINITELY hope to see he and his beautiful family again, but there’s no guarantees). The bottom line is we’re part of a family…God’s family, which is growing across the globe with every passing moment. Now is the perfect time to lock arms with some folkz and enjoy the ride…it was never meant to be done alone!
enjoy…
After…Then
March 18th, 2009
John 2:22
After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
Jesus offended the religious professionals by claiming that He would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days.
His opponents didn’t understand His deeper meaning, and apparently, even His disciples didn’t comprehend His intention-
Until after His resurrection…
Then they believed.
Sometimes we don’t/can’t/won’t know what God is up to until after…then.
After the throbbing of a painful trial subsides…
then we’ll appreciate the maturity that God wrought through our hurt.
After the dust from a devastating loss starts to settle…
then we’ll perceive that God had to take something valuable from us to get something of greater value to us.
After trusting God in a seemingly illogical leap of blind faith…
then we’ll clearly ascertain that He had the route mapped out before the journey ever began.
It’s easier to believe the promises of the resurrected Jesus
than the crucified Christ.
It’s easier to see God in the after-effects of our obedience
than the present-tense of our struggle.
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