Chapter 8
Being realistic
Who am I? This question again. You would think that everyone knows exactly who he or she is but unfortunately, not everybody knows exactly who he or she is.
When you ask people for what they do, they go: I am a doctor or a lawyer. That title means so much but should never define who a person is.
When people are stripped of their title, wealth, culture, creativity, talents, and jobs, what will be left of them? Will they ever remain the same?
The mind is a battlefield, and it is where the constant fight of who you are not, takes place. The mind does not want you to know who you really are, so it keeps feeding you with lies about who you are not.
The mind keeps you busy, doing who you are not instead of being who God has created you to be.
The mind gives pleasure, collects data, gives labels, and gives us roles that are not meant to be ours, giving people a sense of false identity and responsibility.
The truth is that, if you truly know who you are and identify with your spiritual self, having an identity in Christ, you will have a focus and a purpose to live for. You will also have a mission to work towards.
The false responsibilities that people carry, hinder them from stepping into their real purposes. People either define themselves based on their false roles or stamp themselves with labels of which they are not.
What makes us separate from one another? I like to say nothing. We are all spiritual beings created by a supernatural God.
What makes us different and unique is our purpose, just as we have unique fingerprints so do we also have a unique purpose to fulfill in life.
Do you want to fit in and stand out at the same time? We were not created to be alone, we were created to maximize our uniqueness. Our uniqueness is meant to complement the missing parts in others.
For too long, people have denied themselves a life with purpose based on lies and it is important not to answer to these lies.
When people are called by their data, false role, labels, or birth names, it matters. Why does it really matter? It matters because the word of mouth is so powerful enough to cause change.
What we call people will eventually be who they become because they answer to it without even knowing it. People should define themselves and align themselves with what God has called them.
We all have the power of the mouth which can either make or break. When two people agree on anything, so shall it be even when they are joking. That is how powerful the word of the mouth is.
It is important to disagree with what people call you or say to you when it does not align with what God is saying about you.
For instance, people are called lazy, poor, wretched, and other names due to temporary events. One bad chapter does not name you or end your story.
It only leads to another chapter and it will be your choice to rename your new chapter.
There is freedom and liberation in knowing who God has called you to be. So, step into your destiny.
Destiny is the divine definition of joy, peace, and purpose. When you align what comes out of your mouth with what God is saying about you, then you have stepped into your destiny.
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is a world of wickedness set among our members, contaminating and depraving the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of birth (the cycle of man’s nature), being itself ignited by hell (Gehenna).
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea animal, can be tamed and has been tamed by human genius (nature).
But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison.
With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who were made in God’s likeness!
Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so.
James 3:6-10 AMPC Bible
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