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How Do I get up from Rock Bottom
So here we are week three of the series #Askingforafriend.
This series came from questions that were on a survey we did.
But they are questions that you may need the answers to but are not so sure you really want to ask them yourself, so you put the hashtag on asking for a friend.
And just like last week, we have some questions that people have posted.
(Insert Slides of questions)
While those are funny and I am thankful to everyone who is asking the questions, I think there is a major questions that a lot of us have had to answer.
If you haven’t yet, you will.
It is the question,
How do I get up from Rock Bottom.
Or how do you get backed up after you have been knocked down?
I don’t know how many years it has been since you were in high school but I remember a couple years ago when I was there, this wasn’t a class taught.
This was something I wished they taught us.
In the few years I have been out of school, I have never had to solve a math problem with a letter in it.
Except to teach other people how to do it.
But we took days and weeks and years on how to do that.
I can still diagram a sentence, but never have to.
Then there were all the science projects.
Like volcanos with baking soda and red dye and it overflowing to kill all the lego people that I put on there and yet that knowledge still isn’t applicable to my life.
I just don’t have any need for that knowledge.
There were some classes that i took that I do use.
Like my choir class.
My music theory class.
Home know how to sew and my wife doesn’t becuase of that class, and my Grandmaw who made me practice.
But here is something we need to teach our high school students.
If I could make a class in high school, it would be how to deal with failure.
Because that is something that you will all have to deal with.
You will have a relationship to end when you didn’t want it to.
You will loose money in the stock market.
You will loose people in your life.
No one plans on bankruptcy or divorce.
But that is the truth of life.
How do we rebound.
Here is the good news for us today.
The bible is full of stories of people whose dreams didn’t get realized.
They didn’t quite get the response or the lookout they were hoping for.
What did they do?
One of those stories is about a man by the name of Elijah.
Let me give you the cliff notes version of Elijah’s story.
His story is found in 1 Kings.
We don’t know much about the beginning of his story but he shows up and he can hear from God and talk for God.
He is called a prophet.
He is the hero of the story or the protagonist.
Ahab is the enemy or the villian or the antagonist.
So Elijah keeps talking to Ahab about his wickedness and attempting to get him to stop and how God is not pleased etc.
The whole story comes to a climax in .
When Elijah challenges Ahab to a duel.
But not a duel like draw your six shooter.
No a duel of Gods.
So Elijah say you get your people, Ill get mine and we will go up to Mount Caramel.
Remember that name, which should be equal becuase it is an ice cream topper.
So they go up and Elijah tells Ahab that his people can go first.
He says if your God is real then we are going to build this altar and you can call down fire from and your God will respond.
So they build the altar and they start the chnting.
Then the best part of Elijah I think comes out.
It is the part of him that I can most relate to.
His taunting of the opponent.
Listen in whatever sport or game I am playing, it is my duty to mess with your head.
I am not a good basketball player at all but none of my students know that.
Because without taking a single shot, I took a 6’3” kid who could dunk on me all day off his game and he couldn’t do a thing about it.
I stood in the paint with a lemonade can and he wouldn’t drive on me.
It was great.
But elijah does the same thing.
They start doing their thing and Elijah in what i can only imagine is the best passive agressive voice with a hint of sarcasm says, “Maybe your God is sleeping.”
Maybe he is on the toilet and he can’t hear you.
Just keep on for a few more minutes.
Maybe he went on bacation and din’t know you were going to do this today.
Scream a little louder.
He keeps egging them on.
They are doing evrything from cutting themselves to dancing and shouting.
Elijah finally says ok my turn.
It is like 6 hours into this thing.
He says it is my turn.
He walks up to altar has them pour gallons and gallons of water on it.
Then he prays a short prayer and God answer then boom there is fire from heaven.
Powerful story.
Exciting story.
Who needs any other book.
You don’t need Jane Seymour.
I don’t even know who that is but the name came to me.
You like the romance books, there is some stuff in the bible that I won’t even repeat right now becuase there are kids present.
YOu like murder, entrigue, mystery…read the bible.
It’sin there.
Then Elijah is so bad, I am telling you I love this dude, he takes his sword and starts killing the false prophets.
I won you loose now die.
That was what he said.
In my Rick James version.
How many of you have ever had a mount caramel experience.
No I don’t mean where you called down fire from heaven and killed 400 eople with a sword.
I mean a mount caramel moment where you needed God to come through and he came through for you.
You were facing your mountain of debt, no job, all the enemies stacked against you and you said God i need you.
and He showed up.
I mean we have all been there.
I don’t deserve the wife I have today but god showed up.
I don’t deserve to be preaching to you all today but god showed up.
You don’t deserve the job you have but God showed up.
Your kids didn’t deserve to graduate but God showed up.
You thought you were going to end up dead but God showed up.
I mean come on.
Some of you all know what I am talking about.
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