Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Too often people are encouraged to get a job, go to school, or go back to school which is honorable. But what they aren't told much or trained to do is getting into their place of purpose. For example, I heard one of the greatest illustrations of what it means to flow with the chords of purpose or thing God has called one into. A person who aspires to play an instrument will first be taught by the book on how to so that they develop the fundamentals. But eventually they'll get to the place, after investing time in study, where the book can become a crutch or hindrance and move away from it to enter a place of flowing with the inspirations of the Spirit; personalizing their works. This is the focus of topic. Teaching people how to transition away from the book [ordinary, routine, program, or human standard] is like weaning a baby from the bottle to the Sippy cup. If not done during the appropriate time frame it can possibly lead to additional problems like stippling dental health. Education or doing things strictly by the program is great starting out but can eventually snuff out the innovation it takes to apply those fundamentals; allowing gift and education to give birth to purpose. Out of all that's been taught to you, has it made contact with the gift you were born with? In older generations most times the children were taught the family business because it was custom that they took over once the parents were no longer able to work any more with the objective to take what was handed down to another level of success. Like Moses, who was educated and then became a Sheppard before becoming one to the Children of Israel. David was a skilled warrior along with being a keeper of his father’s sheep before God anointed him to do likewise with His sheep. Jesus, who worked as a carpenter later declared that if the temple be destroyed, speaking of Himself, that He'd rebuild it in three days. In each of the illustrations all had a starting place where they learned, knowingly or unknowingly, the fundamentals before they took what they learned and fused it with their gift, which launched them into purpose.

1 comment:

  1. Excellent points...and definitely something to think about. The parallels regarding Moses, Jesus and David's paths are very thought provoking.

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