Thank you very much . Hey , welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life . Wherever you are and however you're listening today , call me Mr U in the Inspiration Station . Thanks again for making us a part of your week . Glad to have you back with us . Appreciate the comments and all the support coming through our social media platform .
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I know why we're here and why we're doing this . I'm very excited about the privilege of being able to do this . I don't know if you guys remember this , but I talk about some funny stuff on the show sometimes because the memories that I sometimes recall are really interesting and funny in their own way .
But there was a show back in the 80s and the 90s called the David Letterman Show . I'm not sure if you guys remember . If you do , then you really find this entertaining .
But it used to come on at 1230 at night , 1235 to be exact , right after Johnny Carson , and you know I'm old , I'm dating myself by saying Johnny Carson , you're like Johnny who Look him up . Know , I'm old , I'm dating myself by saying Johnny Carson , you're like Johnny who Look him up . Yeah , I met him .
But I would beg my mother to let me stay up to watch David Letterman for this one specific segment of the show . It's the only reason why I wanted to stay up . It's called . My favorite segment was called Destroying Stuff . Now that sounds crazy but I want to give you context for this . But a segment on the David Letterman show was called Destroying Stuff .
He would get on , I guess , maybe a five , six story building on the rooftop . He would throw things down to the pavement on the rooftop and they would shatter and explode and make this crazy montage and people would just cheer for this . His live studio audience would be inside the building and they'd be cheering for this stuff . And I was just .
I was geeked up about this . I was loving this . I'm like Ma , can I stay up ? Because once I found out what day we were going to be on , I stayed up that night Rough morning for me after I had to go to school and everything . But I wanted to see this segment so bad and I was just totally locked in .
I don't even know why I was just locked into this , but he would throw things like bowling ball , which is very entertaining to see , that come down , fire stories and shatter amazing . A plate of tomatoes , canned hams , frozen turkeys , kegs full of nails and screws , just watch them explode . It was . It was just like I was infatuated . I have no idea why .
I'm weird . I'm sorry , I was obsessed . I begged , mom and dad , past midnight , 12.35 am , ona school night to see this segment . But what I think I was most excited about seeing was what made the thing the thing . It was infatuated with seeing the inner makeup .
That was really interesting to me for some reason that I'm still figuring out , but I think I understand some parts of it . But what was left after all these things were dropped in this building in this TV segment , was debris . At the every segment there was debris . All over the pavement , scattered pieces from something that was broken or destroyed .
All over the pavement , scattered pieces from something that was broken or destroyed . Even fragments from stuff accumulated over time or waste is what is considered the technical definition of debris Fragments from stuff accumulated over time . You might have debris in your room and you can't keep it clean . You can't get rid of stuff . It's starting to pile up .
Somebody might even call you a hoarderer . Separate show , separate topic , but that can be considered debris , scattered pieces from something that's been broken or destroyed . Now , to me , I think very heavily in this area where does the debris of life come from ?
Because if debris is defined as scattered pieces from something broken , something destroyed , fragments from stuff that we accumulated over time in our life , where does debris of life come from ?
We're coming up on a season of time where we are encouraged to start doing what they call spring cleaning , when we start going through our house , getting rid of stuff that we don't need , cleaning out old file cabinets and closets , getting rid of old stuff that's been in the garage , piling up , get that stuff out and kind of almost have a fresh start .
I think spring cleaning should be a lot more often . We should have more seasons than just in the spring . I wholeheartedly believe that . But what does it mean to have this debris in our life ? Synonyms for debris are things like buildup , clutter , wreckage , spoilage , rubble , scraps , litter , calf and dross or dross . All these things are the same word as debris .
Where does all this stuff come from ? Where does all this debris come from ?
Coming from New York City and as rough a place as it was growing up , one of the things that was really tough for me transitioning from New York to the South , one of the toughest things I had to deal with was tossing away pieces of my identity , my character , my behavior , the instant reactions that come when I encounter a certain kind of situation , certain
biases , certain judgments about people who are not from New York . Honestly , those things were tough to deal with . I needed help , I needed deliverance in those areas , because what we don't realize and people like to , there's a bias in itself for people who are from New York . I deal with it from time to time .
It doesn't affect me what you got to know , you're not hurting my feelings , you're not bothering me . I can handle it , hope you can too . But there's a tough part to tossing away a piece of your identity Because in today's times , in today's vernacular , that's egregious to them .
Toss away your identity , it's who you are be , who you're supposed to be , but there's certain parts of your identity and your character and your behavior , those reactions and judgments and biases that were formed from places maybe pictures of weakness , places of debilitation , maybe places of dysfunction and you accepted it as part of your personality and your character ,
where it was part of your environment that you were in . See , when I left new york , I left the environment behind me . Now , to be fair , I carry some environment with me into the new places that I traveled and began to live , to my own detriment . I can say it now because I've been healed of that .
But I recognize that we have the ability to carry around the debris of our life and we don't mind doing everything . That's part of our responsibility somehow . I think I've shared this on many different podcast episodes , but I've probably moved in my life more than 35 times from birth to the current , 35 times up and down the East Coast .
That's a lot of movement , excuse me . And a challenge with that is you can't take all the stuff you accumulated in life with you everywhere you go . There's a saying in the business world and in organization that you know what , if you can , you need to run lean , run as lean as possible so that you can run faster and farther .
If you're carrying all that old junk , it affects your ability adversely . It affects your ability to run , to function , to move , to grow . So what I'm saying to you is that what I had to do was toss away all those pieces of my identity , things I thought were part of my character , that were part of me , that were germane to who I was .
If I got rid of it , I even felt , like you know what , I'm not myself anymore . I'm not who I thought I was .
But those things that we carry around as debris in our life , we got to get rid of it , because all it is are scattered pieces from things that have been broken and destroyed in our life , that we carried around , continued to maintain , we fostered it , we lived in the comfort of it and , honestly , there's a saying that it's not old , but there's a saying that
still goes on now that God loves us the way that we are . And I'm not saying that it's not totally true , but in that truth there's an inherent lie , because God loves us too much to keep us where we are . I love the words of David in Psalms 51 , 10 through 17 .
I won't read the whole thing , but I love it because David exemplifies the kind of heart that God loves . In verse 10 , he says creating me a clean heart , o God , and renew a right spirit within me . He talks about how he doesn't want to be cast out of God's presence . He doesn't want his spirit to be taken away from him .
He wants the joy of being in his presence , to be loved by him , to be saved by him , to be upheld by him . He wants a new heart , a new character . He's asking for that . He said I want a new heart and a new character . David didn't mind if the old one was broken .
In verse 17 , the Bible says the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit , a broken and a contrite heart . God would not despise , god would . In this , david was saying that he doesn't mind if the old heart was broken , if the old things were broken off of his life , because he wanted the new thing that God had and that was it wasn was immediate .
It didn't happen right away , but I got to that point where I didn't care about the old stuff anymore . I didn't care about being the New Yorker that happened to live in the South .
I didn't care about having the rough exterior , know had such thick skin and didn't have any strong emotions and compassion and all the things that you sometimes learn living in a hard situation like I did . I wanted to be in a place where I had a clean heart .
I wanted to be in a place where I was an influence and impactful into the lives of others and I didn't walk over and step over folks like I would do in New York , which was kind of the culture then . What I'm saying to you just in the short of this , is that you know there's debris in our life and we got to clean it .
It's not , it's not something good . These are not memories that we should hold on to . This is wreckage , rubble from and scraps from areas that had been broken and destroyed in our life . There's no need to hold on to it . It's time to clean it up . It's time to clean it out . We don't need it anymore . We don't need the so-called comfort that it provides .
It's a crutch for us . We need to get free , get rid of the old stuff , receive the new heart , receive the new spirit . Get rid of the instant reactions , the judgments and the biases , the old behavior , the old thing that we thought were germane or innate to our character . Get rid of it .
David asked for a clean heart and a right spirit , a new spirit , and he was considered arguably the greatest king in biblical history , perhaps even the greatest biblical figure in biblical history . So if he's asking for a clean heart and a new spirit , who are we to not want the same thing ? Just food for thought . Hope you enjoyed the episode .
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