Do It Yourself

I have great friends in Kentucky.  Hard to believe since it is Kentucky.

My good friend's, MJ, dad is an artist, author, pastor, etc.  Heck, he is a lot of things.

He has a book titled "Like a Tree".  Good book.  Find it. Read it.  "Like a Tree" by Mitchell Tolle.

From this book I have a million favorite quotes, but one of my top favorites is this:

"When you think you become powerful.  When you refuse to think or let someone else do it for you, you have surrendered everything."

Think about it.  You're probably wondering to yourself why is this important.  You are probably thinking that this is obvious, but I argue that it isn't.

Thinking about church in general, when was the last time you took your bible in to ponder on the Word while the pastor read it?  When was the last time you double checked when you got home, since you probably didn't bring your bible, to see if pastor was teaching his passage correctly?

See, we as the the church are notorious for letting people think for us.  We surrender our whole knowledge base to what one person is teaching us on Sundays.  We have surrendered everything because we won't think on our own.

Like this quote says, we must make ourselves powerful by thinking on our own.  Am I saying to abandon the teaching of the man of God?  Heck no.  We should respect them and learn from them, but we should always have the mind to think for ourselves and make sure what we are receiving is truth.  Nothing wrong in that!

I encourage you to think for yourself.  It can be hard at times to get motivated in a world where everything is handed to us and spoon fed directly, but we must take the Word of God in for ourselves and think to become powerful.