I Am Just An Ordinary Person?

WE CAN HINDER GOD BY THE PERSPECTIVE I AM JUST AN ORDINARY PERSON. I MUST SEE BEYOND THE PERSPECTIVE THAT I AM AN ORDINARY PERSON, BUT I HAVE TO SEE THE PERSPECTIVE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY GOD.

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

I do this in two parts.

ORDINARY:

So common to become boring. Norm.

REGULAR, CUSTOMARY CONDITIONS.

KIND OF EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Psalm 68:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

Illustration:

I get three or four people’s glasses, and then I give them back to the wrong person. We all see from a different perspective and different ways.

I am 6’2", my wife is 5’2" we see from a different perspective.

I see the top of refrigerators, my wife has never seen up there?

I. YOUR ATTITUDE WILL DETERMINE YOUR ALTITUDE!

WILL WE STAY HERE? IS THIS RUT ACCEPTABLE?

WHEN WILL WE CHANGE?

We will change when the PAIN OF STAYING THE SAME IS GREATER THAN THE PAIN OF FACING CHANGE?

A. RUT:

A recurrent state.

A TRACK WORN FROM HABITUAL PASSAGE.

A monotonous routine, fixed pattern.

Zech. 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

B. PARADIGM:

Example, pattern, normal way of operation.

NORM ---

C. PATTERN:

Habitual, automatic, unthinking, reinforced behavior.

A form, model, imitation.

Reliable sample of traits, acts, tendencies, or observations of a person

D. PERSPECTIVE:

To look at, interrelation of subject mental view.

To establish a value system then ranks by importance.

The art of drawing in 2 dimension and seeing in the third dimension.

Mental view of relative importance of things.

Attitude, approach, outlook.

E. ATTITUDE:

Opinion or way of thinking.

Behavior reflecting opinion.

Position, feeling,

Mental position based on how one views the facts.

F. SOME SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE AND WONDER WHY ARE THEY THIS WAY? OTHERS SEE HOW THINGS ARE AND DREAM HOW CHANGE CAN COME ABOUT AND BRING A PARADIGM SHIFT.

G. WE CAN BE SO SATISFIED HERE, WE REFUSE TO STEP TO THERE?

Years ago 95% of all watches were SWISS MADE. The watches were mechanical, gears moving to keep time. For several decades all watches were made this way.

One day a man was dreaming and came up with a BETTER IDEA!

He invented the QUARTZ WATCH, the movement was not gears, the whole system operated much different.

The man flew to Switzerland and tried to sell his quartz, SILICON time piece to the Swiss watch companies.

They refused to consider this silicon idea, it was crazy, watches have always had gears and were reasonably accurate.

The leaders all agreed and rejected the idea.

The man flew to Japan, there was no established norm of producing watches.

Japan bought the idea, today 95% of our watches come from Japan.

These quartz watches are 1,000 times more accurate and durable.

Most of the SWISS WATCH COMPANYS are out of business.

WHY?

H. WILL WE ACCEPT TODAY AS THE NORM?

WILL THE RUT OF THE SAMENESS BECOME OPEN ENDED GRAVES?

I. WHEN WILL WE CHANGE?

We will change when the PAIN OF STAYING THE SAME IS GREATER THAN THE PAIN OF FACING CHANGE?

II. WE NEED HUMAN VISION, BUT WE MUST SEE BEYOND THE VISIBLE, THERE IS A DIVINE VISION THAT CAN SEE BEYOND HERE AND BEYOND

THE MESS OF TODAY. WE MUST DREAM AND DREAM AGAIN.

2 Chron. 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect

toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

A. I heard John Hagee say:

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG, THAT DOESN’T START IN A WRONG WILL.

Wow, that is powerful. No wonder we should seek the WILL OF GOD!

What is motive behind the action?

B. Once there was an advertisement in a Texas Newspaper:

Read your Bible to know what people ought to do.

Read this paper to know what they actually do.

C. People tend to jump to conclusions quickly, and then jump at opportunity very slowly.

D. Many seek God that speaks with bolts of lightning and great thunder, while often God speaks with a still small voice.

E. I once was in a church service in the mountains.

Near the end of the service a lady stood up to testify.

She said, God wasn’t here in the first of the service, God wasn’t here during the singing, God wasn’t here during the message, but just a minute ago God

came into this church.

I thought, Lady you don’t know very much.