TRUE LIFE

One issue that is plaguing many mentor groups, churches, and others places of outreach is the fact that we're not dealing with true life. Usually, when you get into some of these groups or you see projects that are Christian based or have some positive moral to the story being told, it's not realistic enough. We have to get past the young child not listening to his/her parents, or one feeling left out at school, and the nicer issues that we've reheated over and over again trying to tell a story or teach a lesson, but as these times get worse, we have to get more radical and a little more aggressive in our methods to reach the youth and to reach those out there in a never ending war with the everyday issues of life.

There are people out there depressed to the point of suicide, cutting themselves, on the verge of completely losing it because they don't know where their place in the world is and they could care less where they end up after death, we have young males on the streets selling drugs and robbing people because of issues in their own homes, or because they have been deceived into placing so much value on . We have young ladies becoming more and more sexually promiscuous for the simple fact that they're looking for love that they had never received at home, we have young ladies that were raped by their own family members, we have young ladies who don't understand that sex is not love and they're giving themselves to every knuckle headed boy that comes along. We have parents that are strung out on drugs who are trying to raise their kids at the same time! We have pastors and preachers that are money hungry and pimping church goers to help build their own houses up. We have pastors in pulpits that are inputting their own doctrine and agenda and completely ignoring what the Bible says.

I could go on and on, but we all know what issues exist out there because some of these things are going on in our own backyards and in our own families. Make sure that if you are in a leadership role, no matter where or how important you think it is or isn't, be a positive role model, set an example, be a leader and don't just follow into the trends that many people are setting. A lot of the trends being set are taking many right down the path to destruction and despair, stand out, BE DIFFERENT, FORGET WHAT OTHERS THINK OF YOU AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT. As MLK Jr. said, "The time is always right to do what is right."

IF YOU WORK WITH YOUNG CHILDREN OR YOUTH, YOU HAVE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLES. YOU HAVE TO BE THE EXAMPLE AND YOU HAVE TO GET THEM ON THE RIGHT PATH, you may be the only true parent that they have. Just because a child is coming to school or is in a class doesn't mean that he goes home to a whole and sound minded household. Let's start meeting people's needs not by handing them some change along the way, but mentally and psychologically as well, let's help them through what they're going through. We're not going to be able to help every issue, but we can definitely pray for a person and lay before God for someone! Let's get effective prayer back into our lives like the old days!

Never think you have an unimportant role in any team effort, if you're apart of a team that's trying to do something positive and help to better others, every single person is important. We have to remember and understand that it's not about us and that we have to put the well being of others before our own, as a leader, we must be willing to sacrifice time as well as put in hardwork. So let's make a difference.

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The Analysis

There comes a time in every person's life, especially when in their young age, that they must sit down and evaluate their life. Evaluate meaning, sit down and think about decisions that you have made, the good and the bad, while also evaluating where you are in life and if you are getting closer to your purpose.

A lot of us are in places right now that we may not want to be or we may feel unfulfilled, or we may be doing so much but at the same time feel like there is something missing. But a lot of us have not took the time out to stop and look over where we are and what we're doing. Your talent can not be all that there is to you, the amount of people that know you can not be where your confidence lies, and working to please everyone is not what you were made for.

You will not know what your purpose is or why you were placed in this world until you talk to the person that gave you your purpose and formed you from the inside out, the Lord Jesus Christ.

When evaluating yourself and looking at where you are and the road that you're walking down, always remember that if you do the same things that you will get the same results. So, if you wonder why you've been stuck in the same place going through the same cycle for years, look at the decisions that you've been making, the people that you hang around, and what you place so much emphasis in.

You can't live up to the expectations of others and you can't work to chase an image of what others have painted for you, it's like chasing an allusion. Bottom line, take time out to pray, meditate, and evaluate the road that you're on and where you are going, or else you will continue to walk blindly into an area that you know not of.