Jesus is calling you and me today: Instead of being totally self-sufficient to be DEPENDENT: To trust in and rely upon the LORD. It’s OK to have a degree of Self-Sufficiency: It’s healthy, but to be TOTALLY Self-Sufficient can lead our hearts away from the LORD. we measure our strength by fleshly prowess, fleshly skill, fleshly ability, fleshly might) then we’re NOT trusting in or relying upon the LORD. When we’re TRUSTING IN: MAN (FLESHLY STRENGTH) for our STRENGTH (i.e. However, we must note, that when we’re only driven by being popular in the eyes of the world, we’re in danger of allowing our HEARTS to TURN AWAY FROM THE LORD. Friends are marked by ‘LIKES’ or ‘SNAPS’ or ‘STARS’ or “G+s” in SOCIAL MEDIA or HITS on Websites. How do we know we’re ‘popular’? Because we have lots of ‘friends’. Most Important: One thing that people long for more than anything else in our Success and Achievement driven culture is: POPULARITY. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no-one lives. Jeremiah 17:5-6 5 This is what the LORD says: “ Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.Ħ He will be like a bush in the wastelands he will not see prosperity when it comes. Why should we avoid being totally self-sufficient? Just like solid polished granite is impervious to water, so is the individual to the LORD’S instruction, who’s become totally SELF-Sufficient. However, in becoming totally SELF-SUFFICIENT (to be the CAPTAIN of your own soul) there is also a danger: Because there comes a point when an individual becomes reluctant to seek help or ask for advice or able to receive instruction. Because we know that the BIGGEST milestones in life are the ones we’ve made our own BREAKTHROUGHS in learning and discovery. Whilst we all long to see a degree of the ability of individuals to be able to LEARN for themselves, and to INVESTIGATE and to DISCOVER. Barak Obama read the last two stansas at Nelson Mandela memorial service. Nelson Mandela meditated regularly upon this poem during his incarceration in South Africa and read it to fellow prisoners. There is a repeated motto: “I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL” INVICTUS (Unconquerable). In the films The Dead Poet’s Society and ‘Invictus’. Just as a proud parents cheers their child on in the School or College Sport’s Day, so we, followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, have a Heavenly Father, who’s watching, cheering, waving, longing and waiting for each and every one of us to win our race that’s been marked our for us. Whilst we all applaud an individual’s successes and achievements and quite rightly too, because a lot of effort, toil, sweat, dedication and study is exerted to gain those: merits, awards and diplomas. However, there are certain pitfalls, traps and dangers that we need to be aware of in a culture steeped in mindset of success and achievement.įor if we only live for the awards and applauds of men and women in our life, then we’ll be living far below God’s Kingdom Standards of success and achievement. People are attracted to schools that consistently ‘perform’ the best, parents look at the records of a school’s achievements before even considering walking through the doors to view the school. Your youngsters are monitored for and the school is graded by their ACHIEVEMENTS. Good morning my friends, we live in an culture that is driven by success and achievement. “Jesus is the Master of my fate, Jesus is the Captain of my soul” Daily Spirit & Word 560: Awards to Avoid in Achievement.
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