Category Archives: Respect

Sep22

DAY 264 (2014)

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Only God can truly answer this question...

Only God can truly answer this question…

So today while perusing my FB page, I stumbled upon a test that asked this question: How Awesome Are You? Well, being the curious person that I am, I decided it was important to find out “scientifically” how awesome I really was… 😉 .  I clicked the link and took the test, the results. I am… 99% Awesome. I am sure right about now you’re all thinking, “Well, duh… you can’t argue with science…” 😉 Okay, probably not. After I took the test (and got my laughter under control) it dawned on me how silly we are as a people to try and quantify things. How can you figure out awesomeness? How can you quantify smart, stupid, happy, sad? You can’t. All these emotions, feelings, and actions are felt and exhibited by ALL human beings. We ALL fluctuate between moments of extreme awesomeness and moments of absolute stupidity. They can NOT be quantified or even properly defined.  Why? Because only God knows the “TRUE” heart of man.  Then I had this thought, “If we know it is illogical why do we do it?” (Yup, I thought a lot today… my head currently hurts). The only answer that seemed to fit was: To have control. We human being like control, don’t believe me. Have you ever fought over control of the TV remote, when you really didn’t have a show you wanted to watch? Have you ever gotten upset when someone told you to do something you already planned on doing? Control. We all want to have it. We like to know our strengths and our weakness. We want to call our own shots. The problem with control is that it can never be completely held or owned by any human, not even by the most powerful of mankind. There is only one person who can claim complete and totally control, and that is GOD. Here is the truth fighting for control only leaves us unfulfilled and needing more. Because no matter how much control we have it will never be enough. My advice live life and leave the controlling to God. He’s the only one with COMPLETE control. He will get us to our “real” awesomeness 🙂 .

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

Lesson: Stop fighting for control. it is a losing battle. God is creator, controller, and chief executive office (CCCEO). Uhmmm, let Him do His job.

Apr5

DAY 95 (2014)

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Respect it is earned when words and deeds match.

Respect it is earned when words and deeds match.

Over heard my mom having a conversation with a friend. They were talking about what our actions say about us. At one point in the communication I hear my mom say, “Your talk and you walk need to match.”  Her words made me think of a song. I love music. It has the ability to reach us on an emotional level. One of my favorite artist is Derek Minor. He has a song called Respect That, the chorus has these words in it. “If you hear the same things every time talk, and I take the same steps every time I walk. So if you hear the name Jesus come out of my mouth, then you already know what I’m about. You can’t do nothing but respect that…” I started to think about how our actions and our words need to be inline with one another. Okay, okay, I started to think about how my words and my actions need to be inline with one another (fine I admit it). One of my pet peeves is when thing are asymmetrical (no I am not OCD), to me things look better when they are uniform, when they match. Symmetry makes things less confusing and easier to navigate. People can see who we really are when our words and our actions match. We become easier to navigate. My friends don’t all believe what I believe, but I have never hidden it from them. That’s why if they curse in front of me it is usually followed by an apology. This makes me happy because it’s a sign to me that they respect my belief system (even if they don’t agree). They see that my talk and my actions match. Here’s a truth, people won’t always believe what you believe, but if your walk and your talk match up, they “Can’t do nothing but RESPECT that”.

“Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person” (Colossians 4:5-6).

So what’s my plan of attack? Living in a way that my walk and my talk match.