TCMMY Inspiration Station: A Lifestyle of Sacrifice

The difference between hand-out and hand-up mentalities reveals how we've lost our understanding of sacrificial living and the perspective needed to find true purpose. 

• Complaining about sleep, pay, and respect shows our loss of perspective
• We've become a hand-out generation instead of a hand-up generation
• Sacrificial living is vanishing despite being the pathway to purpose
• The olive and precious metals must undergo painful processes to become valuable
• Finding purpose requires total surrender and sacrifice
• Biblical examples like the three men in the fiery furnace show the power of standing by convictions
• Pioneers sacrificed for the freedoms and rights we enjoy today
• Romans 12:1-2 teaches us to remember God's mercy, present ourselves as living sacrifices, and renew our minds
• We all have the seed of greatness inside us (2 Corinthians 4:7)

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Chapters

• 0:28 Welcome and Subscriber Request
• 1:21 Hand-Out vs. Hand-Up Generation
• 3:15 The Lost Art of Sacrificial Living
• 5:56 Finding Purpose Through Surrender
• 8:19 The Cost of What You Believe In
• 10:32 Romans 12:1-2 and Daily Self-Evaluation
• 13:17 The Seed of Greatness Inside You

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:28

Thank you very much. Welcome back to the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to, they call me mr you, inspiration Station. Thanks again for making us part of your week. Wow, wow, wow, wow. It's been a wild few days. You know I routinely get on here. But first of all, thank you for joining our show. If you're watching us via YouTube, please hit the subscribe button. Please like and share some of our episodes with those that you care for and you love. Hopefully it'll inspire them the same way it's inspiring you. But hit the subscribe button Helps us continue to put out great content, inspirational content for you to take in and to receive, and we need your help with that. So thank you for subscribing. If you're listening to us via Apple Podcasts, amazon Music, spotify, et cetera, thank you for hitting the follow button on apple podcast. We definitely appreciate the support there as well.

Speaker 1: 1:29

Uh, you know the routine I get on inspiration station, specifically most of our shows, but specifically here, and I just share things that on my heart. I don't really always have a plan, it's just something that I kind of deep and powerful to me, maybe relevant to you as well. I just share those. It seems to be received pretty well. So I appreciate this. I appreciate the opportunity to do this. I know that it doesn't have to be this way. It's a privilege. So I thank you for listening to this and I hope this lands well. But you know, I gotta be a little bit tougher today.

Speaker 1: 2:06

Honestly, people are complaining about so many things and it's like what? We don't have perspective, and that's probably going to be a key word in this entire podcast. It's perspective. That's all you get. Seek that every day. It'll help out in so many different areas. But people complain about not getting enough sleep. They complain about not getting enough sleep. They complain about not getting enough pay. They complain about not getting enough invites to the cool kids party. They complain about not getting enough respect. And somewhere along the way we lost our desire to sacrifice for what we believe in. We want everything handed to us. Honestly, we've become a hand-out generation instead of a hand-up generation. I'd say it again for those way in the back that may not be paying any attention right now, but I hope they hear this We've become a hand-out generation instead of a hand-up generation. We want somebody to give us something for nothing in a lot of cases when we have the opportunity to have abundance and we have more than what we personally need, we're hesitant to give a hand up to somebody else who may be in a place we used to be in. We become a hand out generation rather than a hand up generation.

Speaker 1: 3:17

The idea of sacrificial living is kind of what this episode is all about. Hopefully I stay on track. So many thoughts going on in this mind, but the idea of sacrificial living it seemed to be escaping us. Matter of fact, it seemed to be drifting away with each passing day the idea of sacrificing for your faith and sacrificing yourself in service. I know there's a lot of people who are believers of Jesus Christ and they're religious folks and people who are and have served in the military. So you understand faith and service, you understand the sacrifices that come with that, but it seems like, generally speaking, we seem to have lost the understanding of sacrificial living and what it means.

Speaker 1: 3:59

Every day I was sharing with a couple that we are mentoring and walking with through some discipleship practices, and I shared about how my entire life has changed. I'm at a place now where my morning starts at two or three in the morning sometimes and my reading is doubled. My listening and my intake of inspirational books and teachings is doubled. My TV watching has been cut by a third. A lot has changed and, you know, in order to have the kind of thing that we want to have in life, we need to sacrifice some things that we like to do, that we think are important in the moment.

Speaker 1: 4:44

You know the idea of the olive that we like to do, that we think are important in the moment. You know the idea of the olive. We always talk about that, especially on this show, about the process of getting olive oil from an olive. We talk about that because the process is rough. The process isn't great for that olive to produce the olive oil that we like to use in cooking or whether we like to use it when it comes to some area of anointing, but the process is hard. The process is hard for gold and silver to be refined. There's intense heat, there's labor, there's pains to create the kind of gold and silver that we enjoy wearing on our fingers and around our necks.

Speaker 1: 5:28

But for some reason in our life, the idea of total surrender, it doesn't appeal to us and even though these are things that are rough and not easy to take. I don't expect us to go running towards it, but we should at least be accepting of it because we understand that out of that process we come out better, we accomplish more of the things that we labor in our life to try to accomplish. But if we don't have that idea of total surrender, we can't accomplish those things. We need to have a heartfelt desire to tap into the creator as his creation, and we just don't want to do that. You know how many people live their whole lives struggling to locate purpose. I talk to them on a regular basis, I talk to them almost on a daily basis. The idea of finding purpose, it seems to be lost on people and they spend 30, 40, 50 years of their life never being able to accomplish it. That's not an over-exaggeration, that's really happening. And the reason why it's happening, in my opinion, in my estimation, is because the idea of sacrificing and surrendering excuse me people are avoiding it rather than running into it and saying you know what I'm going to do whatever needs to be done.

Speaker 1: 6:52

There was a story of three men in the Bible that were thrown into a fiery furnace. Why? Because they loved intense heat? No, because they recognized that what their stance was in life. Their value system was more important than the laws of the land, more important than the mandates and more important than the threats. And they said you know what, if I have to die for this belief, this cause, it's more important than the mandates and more important than the threats. And they say you know what, if I have to die for this belief, this cause, it's worth it. I will. And right now they're being read to our children as bedtime stories or Sunday school stories. But these are exact examples of where we should be in our life, that we are willing to sacrifice the minute things in life for the greater good, for what matters the most as it pertains to our life, our salvation, our wholeness, our mental health.

Speaker 1: 7:45

Somewhere, a sacrifice was made for you to be able to have the choices that you enjoy today, to have the ability to have rights and benefits and privileges as citizens of a country. Now we use those, but we never even think about the cost. Does the cost even matter to you? Is my next question. The people who are pioneers in this country, even around the world, around the globe, poured out their lives for something they believe in, even if it costs them everything. Are you willing to accept the cost for what you believe in? What do you even believe in that could cost you everything? Have you assessed that? Have you even located that? Yet, at this stage of your life, and even if you have found it every day, you still live out your life or pour your life out into that mission because you know it's worth it.

Speaker 1: 8:37

I'm just asking because it's time for some really big boy questions. We don't spend time looking at the obituaries. That's not really healthy, so we shouldn't. That's great, but there is an accounting for all of us that's going to take place. It's an accounting for every single person who lives and breathes and walks this planet. We should all want to be on the right side of eternity. The very best sacrifice that we can give is the one that we give of our own, free will. That's what separates us from the animals, even though sometimes we may act like animals in certain settings. That's what separates us from the animals that we can make a decision based on free will, make a choice.

Speaker 1: 9:20

Forcing somebody to be nice and respectful to you isn't the same, or it's not even better, than somebody deciding. You know, I see value in this person. I'm going to be nice and respectful to them on my own. Which one is stronger, which one is greater?

Speaker 1: 9:35

There's a passage in Romans 12, 1 and 2. I love this. I talk about it very often, so you guys might know it by heart by now, but it's one of my favorite passages of scripture because it reminds me of what this episode is really all about. I'll break it down real quick before we closed out today. One of the first points in this passage Romans 12, 1-2,. It says the first point is that there's a need for a reminder of the mercy that you've seen. Remind you of how blessed you've been. We talk about how blessed we are in certain contexts and certain areas of life, but do we really recognize how blessed we are? Do we recognize how good we have it? Do we complain so much that we almost forget how good we actually have it than the other person or the person next to us? That passage, one of the first things it talks about, is reminding us of the mercy that we've seen. The next point is, excuse me, that we present our bodies while we're alive. What does that mean?

Speaker 1: 10:44

In Old Testament, the sacrifices that were spotted and blemished and broken and bruised in any way were considered unacceptable because it was not the best sacrifice that could be given. Cain and Abel they had a challenge with each other, but they were both to give an offering to God. One was accepted, one was was not, because one was given out of the best of what he had. The other one gave haphazardly, from whatever, thinking it would be acceptable. It doesn't. If it doesn't cost you anything, the sacrifice doesn't mean anything. I'll say that part again if it doesn't cost you anything, the sacrifice doesn't mean anything. So presenting your bodies while you're alive is the same thing as a sacrifice.

Speaker 1: 11:31

I'm not talking about human sacrifices. Don't go there. It's not what we're talking about. What I'm talking about is that every day of your life, while you live and breathe in this body that you were given, with the breath that you're borrowing right now, you have a responsibility, in a way, to give back, not to people who are downtrodden only, not people who are destitute only, but to give back to this world that we live in, that we profit from, that we benefit from living in. We be the best version of ourselves and produce something that benefits everyone. Put yourself in a position like present your bodies, put yourself in a position to do the best you can do and get the best output that you can give out of what you've been given, because you've seen that mercy on your life.

Speaker 1: 12:22

The last thing, the last point, is the daily process of self-evaluation, aspiring for holiness, saying you know what my mind is not right. I need to transform my mind, change it into what it needs to be. And it says we do that by renewing our minds on the word of God. That's how we do it. Self-help books are fine. I read some of those. It's fine, but it can't be the be-all and the end-all, not the panacea for what we all deal with in life, in this world.

Speaker 1: 12:49

We need something greater and more consistent and more stable than that Daily process of self-evaluation, aspiring for wholeness, aspiring for better than what we've been used to or better than quote-unquote good enough. We're saying you know what we can do better. We have the seed of greatness inside of us. If you don't know that, understand that today. You have the seed of greatness inside of you. We have better in us than what our parents have told us, our grandparents, television, media, even our best friends. We're greater and better than what they've even said about us. We have a seed of greatness inside of us. Check out 2 Corinthians, 4 and 7. We have a treasure inside each earthen vessels. We have greatness inside of these vessels.

Speaker 1: 13:34

I just want to encourage you guys that we don't have to be a handout generation. We can be a hand up generation. We can do better than complain about everything that is not going right in our life. We have the power to change it. At the end of the day. I don't know about you. I want to be on the right side of eternity. Whoever you are and however you're listening today I'm calling Mr U in the Inspiration Station. Thanks again for listening. Please hit like, share and subscribe Before I talk to you. You soon have a great day.