The Chronicles of the Unplugged

Just like our family garden is flourishing, I've been deeply moved by the parallels between nurturing plants and nurturing souls. In this episode, I'm sharing how our collective Goshen—a sanctuary of growth for both greenery and human connections—has become a testament to the power of positivity and hope. We've drawn inspiration from the biblical passage of Matthew 5:14-16, emphasizing the importance of staying connected to our source of light. It's a conversation about the profound influence we wield when our inner light is undimmed, and how that brilliance can guide and uplift others in their search for purpose and belonging.

Embracing the strength we find in unity, I invite you to consider the magic that happens when we support one another. It's not just about what we can achieve alone but about the incredible things we can do together. In this episode, I encourage you to reach out, share your light, and remember that our unique abilities are magnified through the connections we build. For anyone seeking guidance or a sympathetic ear, our platforms hopefully stand as beacons of support. Here's to empowering each other to shine ever brighter in a world that craves our collective light. Join us as we explore these themes and more, weaving togeth

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Speaker 1: 0:51

Thank you, 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, the podcast. We thank you once again for making this a part of your morning, your day and your week with your weekly mirror check before you change the world. Thank you. You can find us on all of our socials at theycallmemisteryou either M-I-S-T-A-Y-U or M-R-Y-U. You can find us on all of the socials. Thanks again for supporting us.

Speaker 1: 1:18

The podcast has been growing since the last time we chatted together so great to have you guys back. A lot has changed. We pride ourselves on being the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life, so when we talk about things on this show, it's designed to be all things to all people. We want to address the whole person spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally, financially everything that matters to you. We want to try to address it on the show because it matters to me. I'm a whole person, or ascribed to be a whole person, and you guys are as well, so I'm going to speak to topics that matter to you and you guys have been seeing a lot of stuff relating to our garden and what we're doing with building our Goshen, so we're excited about how that's going, a lot of new eyes on the podcast and a lot of input, gardening advice being given and gardening advice being received from my wife and I as we venture into this new territory. So thank you again for your support, please, of course, like, share and subscribe. Like, share and subscribe. You can find our podcast audio-wise on everywhere where you enjoy your podcasts Spotify, pandora, iheartradio, apple Podcasts, et cetera and, of course, our YouTube channel for all the full audio and video at the Call Me, mr U on YouTube. You can find us there. And, of course, we're talking about everything under the sun sports, family life. Of course, we're talking about everything under the sun sports, family life, gardening, finances and, of course, you, the whole person, and what you specifically need. Thank you again for joining us and thank you again for your support. Thanks for hitting the like button. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much. You know there's a lot of things on my heart since the last time we got together. A lot has happened since the last time we were together like this, so thank you for hanging in there with me.

Speaker 1: 3:09

One of the things I want to do. I want to start off by reading you a passage of scripture. Now don't kill me out. I want you to hear this because we all in some way, shape or form, no matter what we ascribe to from a religious or faith-filled standpoint we all desire to be a light. Now that comes to some degree of confusion out there if you look around, and some degree of agenda, even some levels of wickedness too, and then there's some generosity and people really trying to do the right thing by people, because they want the right things done by themselves. It's not hard to understand, but out there you're going to see a lot of people who aspire to be a light. They may feel as though they're an asset to their workplaces, they're an asset to their church or organized ministry, they're an asset to their book club or they're an asset to their exercise group. Everybody's trying to be a light in some way, shape or form.

Speaker 1: 4:15

But I want to kind of talk a little bit about what that looks like and where our responsibilities need to be in order to effectively be a light. I think we talk about it, but I don't think we know how to walk it out. And I think that's important because a lot of the questions that I hear from people who may view me as a mentor or coach or just somebody who's a really good, faithful friend. I hear a lot of things like why am I here? What should I be doing? What's my purpose? I don't seem to fit in this area, but I feel like it's important for me to explore it. What do I do? So I've been hearing that a lot lately, so I'm hoping that what we talk about today will help answer some of those questions. I know some of our friends are listening, so hopefully they get the answer that they need.

Speaker 1: 5:01

But I'm going to read from Matthew, chapter five, real quick, verse 14 through 16, matthew five, verse 14 through 16. It's out of the NIV and it reads you are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on a stand and it gives light to everyone in the house In the same way. Let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven.

Speaker 1: 5:31

We all want to be lights in the world, but the problem is that we all want that, but we also want to remain unplugged. I want you to catch that. We want to be light but we want to be unplugged. That we want to be light but we want to be unplugged. That's not really how it works, if anything, even in the natural sense. If you have a flashlight and it's not plugged into a power source, it probably is running on batteries or on solar, so it has to be in a certain position to receive the sufficient amount of energy for it to operate and function correctly. And if it's battery operated, of course you know the batteries are going to run out. You either have to get a new set of batteries or recharge the batteries that you have and they're rechargeable in order to have an efficient power source in that flashlight. In our personal, human, spiritual sense, it still falls in line. It's still the same premise we need to be plugged into a power source in order to be the kind of light that we aspire to be, but people around us want to be unplugged. They don't want to be committed, they don't want to be in tune with the power source or attached or plugged in or adapt to the power source in order to be that light that they aspire to be.

Speaker 1: 6:48

There's a passage in Luke, chapter eight. It talks about how, when it comes to light, there's nothing that's secret. Everything's going to be manifested, no thing can be hidden. Everything that needs to be known will be known. And it's like you got to ask yourself, as you are aspiring to be a light in this world that we live in, are you willing to be fully out there, to be exposed, to see your life on display, to see your weaknesses on display? Do you want to be a light, or we just talk about that in name only but not in practice? Do you really want to be a light? It comes with some responsibilities that we read about. It can't be hidden under a bowl, but it's put on a stand, it's put on a pedestal, a platform. It's widely seen so that everybody in the house can receive that light.

Speaker 1: 7:50

Do you want to be on that level? People aspire to have that kind of influential appeal. People even show it on social media. They want to be an influencer. It's one thing to be an advocate for a certain product that your followers may want to buy. It's a whole different level to be an influencer on this level, to be a light, to be a beacon of hope for somebody else who doesn't have that hope in their life, to be an example of peace for somebody who doesn't have peace. That's following you on your social media account. That's a whole different level of influence. When we talk about being a light, that's a whole different level. Do you see yourself as a lighted candle? To do that, you got to be somebody who's profited from the word and are qualified to profit other people. You got to be at a place where you have received enough in your own life that it can be a real impact in somebody else's life outside of yours.

Speaker 1: 8:50

We want to be a light, but we can't stay unplugged.

Speaker 1: 8:52

We got to attach ourselves to the power source. What is that? What's the source of all good things? What's the source of everything that is holy and righteous, and just Not trying to get too deep and religious. But let's be honest For me, the word of God is the measuring stick.

Speaker 1: 9:09

This is my show. This is what I talk about. This is what I really believe. The word of God is the measuring stick and if you are somebody who aspires to be a light, you got to be attached to the power source. You got to be attached to the word of God. You got to be attached to the principles and the standards that God has in place for you as a citizen and a member of his kingdom, but also to be a light, to be an influence in the world that you live in, in your workplaces, in the places where you exercise, where you live, work and play, in your household, before your family, before generation of people that live with you.

Speaker 1: 9:46

To be a light means to be an influence, to be a standard bearer, to pour it out, spread that out so that others can see it. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to be a light on that level? That's the thing that we got to ask ourselves. Today. A lot of folks around us are proclaiming to be a light, but they don't point to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. So is that a true light or is it an artificial light? Ask yourself that question. If you call yourself a believer I'm talking to the believers today If you call yourself a believer in Jesus Christ, if you believe or that you aspire to be, somebody that lives a life that's governed by the word of God, governed by God's standards, if that's you and you believe that's you and you hope and pray that that's you Ask yourself, are you attached I don't mean to a church or to a building.

Speaker 1: 10:46

I've fallen for that trick for years. It's not legitimate. It's not something God even cares about, the way we think he does. Your membership and your attendance doesn't make you holy. It doesn't mean that you're in the right place when it comes to his heart and your heart being aligned with that that he wants. It doesn't mean that you're on point with him in the realm of relationship. It just means you're in a location where he theoretically should be. It doesn't mean that you have what you need. It doesn't mean that you are where you should be positionally with him. I belong to an incredible church. That's no issue there. But my relationship with Christ isn't relegated to whether I'm at church on that Sunday or not, or that Wednesday or not, or if I'm there with enough consistency to warrant God's favor and his blessing. I had that because he gave it to me. It's not because I go to a church of this magnitude and I'm there serving in a certain capacity. That's called duty-based ministry. It's not something that God advocates. It's something that man pushes, because man has an agenda for what he wants to happen with a church that he may pastor or lead doesn't always mean that God is positioning us to be in all these areas of ministry because we think it's going to please God.

Speaker 1: 12:15

I've been in roles where I was associate pastor and where I was doing outreach, where I was leading worship as a worship minister and director. I've been in places where I was doing six months of the teaching for a whole year, teaching seniors and teaching adults and college students, even teaching middle-aged children and elementary school children and middle school children. I've done that and it got to the point where I was saying yes, so much that I got burnt out and I wasn't able to serve anybody. I was incapacitated, I was dysfunctional, I wasn't focused and I was just doing things thinking that would please God, but it ended up hurting me more than it hurt anybody else. I didn't help anybody. In that state, the empty vessel can't pour anything out to give anybody, and I was on E.

Speaker 1: 13:10

So I'm talking to you guys today that call yourself believer, that feel as though you are a believer of Jesus Christ and you aspire to do his perfect will. If you're a light, you got to stay attached. I'm not talking about to a building. I'm not talking about friends who are related to the pastor. I'm not talking about people who are a part of your ministry, that you're good friends with and have been for years. I'm talking about staying attached to the author and the finisher of your faith, staying attached to the rock that's higher than I. I'm talking about staying attached to the living, breathing, moving word of God and the power of God, staying attached to the presence of God, staying attached to God himself in sweet fellowship and relationship, listening to him, honoring him and obeying him.

Speaker 1: 14:05

If you can do that, I believe it's not hard at all for you to be a light in this world, to be a role model and example, to be a component of this kingdom that's to come on earth as it is in heaven. I believe it's not impossible at all for you to light that shines on that degree, to that level, but we can do it artificially. What do you do when the batteries go dead? What do you do when there's no sun to use for solar energy and it's just dark and cloudy? What do you do then? The answer is in being attached to the source, where there is energy, where there is power. That's being attached to the word of God and in relationship.

Speaker 1: 14:52

If you're not there and you don't know how to get there, reach out to me. I'd love to help you and offer some resources that can help you out. Make some introductions on your behalf to some folks that can help you out with this, but don't stand there on your own like an island trying to solve all the problems yourself. You want to be a light. You got to stay attached to the light. I hope that makes sense to you. I really hope it does. If you have any questions for me, please reach out on all of our socials at theycallmemisteryou. I'd love to help you and offer some insights and advice or some resources that can help you out. Hope this is encouraging to you. If you're light, shine baby. You got it. But we got it because it was given to us, not because we had it all on our own because of our own goodness. It was was given to us. So use what you've been given and shine at the level that you are. Have a great day, enjoy the music. Go child.