Issues

Let us begin with a rather simple fact, and it is this: you will never be successful at becoming the person you desire to be until you learn how to mange your issues. And make no mistake about it–we all have issues. We are all living with unanswered questions, unresolved insecurities and certain irreducible fears that live at the center of lives and at times make us less than who we are. Problems happen to us but issues happen in us. They are the experiences, questions, and longings that penetrate deep into the core of who we are; and even when our problems change our issues remain the same, because, each of us have been constructed around the presence of an irreducible shame.

And I wish I could tell you that one day all of your issues will be resolved but nothing about human history leads me to believe that this is a realistic expectation. Even in the bible great men and women were constantly struggling with their issues, and apart of what made them great is the fact that they took the sadness of their inner conflicts and transformed what should have been something dark and full of dissonance into something remarkably melodious and beautiful.

 

None of us are perfect–but we can use the worst in us to make the best in us come alive. Sometimes before we can help–we must hurt. Your weaknesses keep you humble, they keep you grounded; and if you let them, they can also make you great; because anything that has the power to make you weep has also the power to make you reach for the living God.

 

These are the issue of our lives; and each morning as we rise to face the coming of the day, we do so knowing all the while that there lurks beneath the surface of the smiles we bare a reason to cry…But we choose to smile anyway.

Now that’s a Giant Step.

  

 

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8 Responses to “Issues”

1. Michelle says:
   March 8, 2007 at 2:38 pm

   This is great insight!

2. info says:
   March 9, 2007 at 10:31 am

   I think issues are the catalyst that will produce either a real authentic relationship with God or a mundane ineffective existence.

3. Leah says:
   March 9, 2007 at 11:12 am

   I think this website is very insightful!

4. Patricia says:
   March 9, 2007 at 12:12 pm

   Just wanted to say thank you! Last night’s class really blessed me! Learning about the difference between issues and problems and how to prevent a problem from entering into your spirit and becoming an issue. Wow!!!

5. Pastor Sean says:
   March 9, 2007 at 5:02 pm

   Thank you for being there, and for letting the light of God’s love shine in the shadows of your life.

6. Mileece says:
   March 12, 2007 at 3:03 pm

   Obviously, I need a math tutor. Anyway…. when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Life taught me that sometimes, I have to bloom where I am planted. Issues and all.

7. Pastor Sean says:
   March 14, 2007 at 12:09 pm

   yes you are sister Mileece, you have truly been planted. and the great thing about living in a universe where there is still a God is that you can bloom where ever he puts you. you can produce even in the worst of circumstances. even when we are a mess, we can still make a difference.

8. Sis. Ward says:
   February 27, 2008 at 5:51 pm

   I always voice it takes one to know one. I feel as if I can see through you as I listen and read your many sayings, and writings. Pastor Sean God allow people of like endurance and understanding to croos paths every once in a while. I know our time is comming to an end, for my gift is being summons in Glenn Ellen, Il., so before that time shall pass I know I’ve been sent to help make known some mystery of God that you seek, so your understanding awaits you.

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