GET OVER IT
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
TEXT:
1 Kings 19:9 -- 21
Ecclesiastes 12:12-14 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14: For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
I have fallen and I can’t get up.
I have fallen and I don’t want to get up.
I have fallen and I like the mud.
Or, hear the call, try again. Press on.
I ponder if we understand what our assignment before God is?
THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY HAVE THE POTENTIAL SOLUTION WITHIN THEM. THE VERY REAL POTENTIAL IS THAT WE CAN MAKE IT, THIS WILL BENEFIT US!
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
Each believer has several general tasks and several specific tasks that Jesus has assigned to our duty.
Some of these are delegated authority, some direct.
Some opportunities missed might return, but some opportunities missed may never return.
Can we say honestly, we our doing our complete duty?
We can never do our duty, until we identify what it is!
The more effort we give, the better the understanding will develop.
Notice how fleeting the state of man is ---
yesterday in embryo;
today opportunity;
tomorrow regret and unfinished deeds?
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
So for what ever time we have, we should know our assignment and exercise all effort to accomplish our purpose.
Live life with a plan, be obedient to that plan -- invest all your efforts with joy, and when the day comes to depart life, -- you can smile.
As an olive is a bloom on the tree, then a fruit hanging, developing, and then ripping.
We must see that the olive has matured through seasons.
It will be crushed and become a drop of olive oil.
All of this is a process of time.
We must recognize the season that grew the little olive, the tree that matured it, and the process of time that the Father has planned.
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
Why not see this in our walk?
We can develop wrongful, invalid conclusions and values about our assignments by the teachings of society, by the daily menial life at home, by our goals for materialism and business, and by entertainment and emotions that make us feel good.
The control and manipulation attitudes and spirits try to reign in subtle ways.
The "feel good" mentality that has invaded the camp of God will never stand the TEST OF TIME.
Pain, bitterness, hurt, and being offended are parts of this process.
We must develop a strategy to overcome, we are VICTORS not victims.
Joseph illustrates the plan of God may lead through long valleys that we can never understand, until the race is over.
The conclusions on our assignment are expressed by Solomon.
Solomon stated, the conclusion of the whole matter is to fear God and keep His commandments.
For God will bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, bad and good. ( Ecc. 12:12-14)
Have we lost our fear of the judgment in today’s church?
One of my fears, as a pastor, is: we will be hurt, offended and dying and we never identify what our assignment really is.
The effect of not knowing our duties and performance expectations could be: that we will fall short of our potential.
No sadder words of pen or tongue, are the words --"WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN?"
We can develop valid excuses due to others’ behaviors that can hinder.
Someone does not appreciate me as they should? Do you appreciate everything as you should?
But someone said? Someone was mean to me?
Did Jesus quit when this happened to Him?
But my parents, but the pastor, but they shoot their wounded --- all just excuses?
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
All excuses must cease!
You can if you want to!
You can find excuses to quit if you want to?
Is it better to set the sight of the goal for the stars, and hit the moon; than to constantly hit the muddle puddles of life?
The path of our assignment lies within menial daily life.
Yet the enemy is trying to get us frustrated and focusing on the faults of those other hypocrites.
Yet, man seeks some great remote adventure.
We have a duty to love those that wrong us, we cannot stay on the side lines because we have suffered.
If we identify and exhaust our efforts toward our duty,
God will come in and do what we are not able.
Why ask God for more, until you do what you know to do?
Why seek a professional singing career, until you have sung that one song that God has given you?
If you sleep on your watch, you endanger many and fail your duty.
Your choice to get hurt and stay hurt can hurt many?
Our duty to our Creator must become a conviction.
God restore conviction to us!
God has the right to expect each person to do their duty!
Duty can never be expressed properly without faith and hope.
Duty that is not releasing others and forgiving and loving is not God’s plan.
Pain and hurt kill faith and hope, thus kill our assignment?
We must see beyond.
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
There is a very gratifying feeling, that is, when our duty has been done with our best effort.
Taking offense, ship shod efforts, laziness are all killing our society.
When the welfare state grows to the point that everybody owes me, we are doomed.
We cheat God and the church by freeloading.
I Kings 19: 9-- 21, why not read the word?
We are introduced to a hurt preacher.
His ministry has been more than effective, but there is a vocal mouth of opposition from the King’s wife, Jezebel.
This preacher, then focuses totally on the negative and Elijah forgets his call, God’s purpose, and the victories of the pass. Elijah has a JUNIPER TREE experience.
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
He is tired, hungry, weak, and has completely lost his VISION, all because he is running hurt, and his pain breeds fear. This fear is real, there has been a threat on his life and his ministry. But to continue his ministry Elijah has to GET OVER IT!
Elijah runs and hides from everybody in a cave.
While there, vs. 9, God’s word comes to him,
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS CAVE?
(The answer: NOTHING, a pity party.)
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
Elijah says: (10) I, even I only, am serving God. While Elijah is having a pity party, a strong wind blows -- this is not God.
Then a great earthquake; in a cave during earthquakes not too smart. This must be God?
NO! Then a fire, God moves in fires? But God was not in this fire!
Finally, a STILL, SMALL VOICE -- this can’t be God ministering to the minister?
Vs. 13, again God asked: Elijah what are you doing sitting here?
Again, NOTHING. Elijah was hurt and licking his own wounds.
You must not carry your pain, release it, set yourself free.
Elijah had to GET OVER IT!
Finally, God got Elijah to take his mantle and leave the cave...
God tells Elijah, grow up, I have 7,000 in one city that have never bowed, GET OVER IT and GO minister, God’s work lies ahead!
Vs. 21, God gives Elijah Elisha, a young minister’s assistant, to help in the journey ahead.
One day, this young minister will take Elijah’s mantle and advance the torch.
What if Elijah had not got over it and stayed bitter?
But Elijah had to GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
Are you going to lay in the mud?
Will you allow the opposition’s wind to blow your sails and not God’s wind?
So you have been misunderstood?
So your dream has fallen through?
So you have been disappointed?
So others have not yielded to you?
GET OVER IT and GET UP and GO AGAIN.
Listen there is a still small voice calling you.
GET OVER IT, GET UP and TRY AGAIN.
Consider this story: (Thanks Bonnie)
Once there was a farmer who owned an old mule.
One day the mule fell into the farmer’s well and the farmer heard the mule ’praying’ or whatever mules do when they fall into wells.
After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.
Instead, he called his neighbors together, told them what had happened and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.
Initially, the old mule was hysterical!
But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back, a thought struck him.
It dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back HE COULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP!
He did, blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up... shake it off and step up... shake it off and step up!"
He repeated this to encourage himself.
No matter how painful the blows, or how distressing the situation seemed, the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!
It wasn’t long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, STEPPED TRIUMPHANTLY OVER THE WALL OF THAT WELL!
But, he still had to plow and help the farmer after all that dirt!
What seemed like it would bury him actually helped him --
all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.
How are you handling the hurt and disappointments?
Real life hurts!
If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, self-doubt, bitterness, or self-pity ...
THE ADVERSITIES THAT COME ALONG TO BURY US USUALLY HAVE THE POTENTIAL SOLUTION WITHIN THEM. THE VERY REAL POTENTIAL IS THAT WE CAN MAKE IT, THIS WILL BENEFIT US!
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
The Holy Spirit has an assignment, we must overcome.
See the bigger picture. Dream.
Open your creative mind to the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
GET OVER IT. Get out of the cave.
Shake it off and grow.
His student,
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
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