So I Said Pod With Dylan Sellers
So I Said Pod With Dylan Sellers
Permission Granted
So as you are what you do I know that the the wisdom that is pushed for us as semantics, especially in the faith space, and I have some brothers who are going to disagree with this statement. And we've had these conversations. And I think initially I agree with them, and I don't agree anymore. They would say that you're not what you do, what you do is not who you are. I think that they mean, well, when they say that, I think that what they're what they're referring to is that like, you are not your occupation, you are not your title, you are more than that. God has meant more for you than that. The truth of the matter is, you are the decisions that you make. And the decisions that you make are what you are doing. What you do defines who you are. And that's how people interact with you. Even to suggest that you should just be you're a human being that you should just be be is an action word. What are you being? What does that mean? And I don't think that's my brother's, who am I am currently disagreeing with on a podcast. And they don't have a chance to retort this, it's one of the advantages of having a podcast is being able to talk and nobody talks back to you is that being while an action word, can be a space where like, you can take your foot off the gas. And maybe I'm unsettled, maybe my, my faith is not where it needs to be. And I'm willing to accept that. I'm willing to take on the chin, that maybe I don't have enough faith, but I'm sick of waiting. I believe that God has given me everything I need to go get and become everything that he's caused me to be. And I'm not waiting on Him. God is waiting on me. And that's just what I believe. Right? Why is this important right now? I'll tell you. Because I'll be 35. In a year, I'll be 34 this year, next year, I'll be 35. And why is 35 important to me, because I work in the civic engagement space. And when they talk about young people, they talk about people from what age to what age 18 to 35. So next year, God willing, if I see that birthday, I, I will be officially out of the young people category. I'm no longer a young adult by their metrics, which means that there's some things that I need to have together, that I should be pushing towards. That doesn't mean that I should stop dreaming. Although I thought for a little bit that that meant that I was going to have to stop dreaming, that doesn't mean I'm going to have to stop dreaming. What it does mean is that I'm going to have to put some feet behind it. That I'm going to have to take the experience that God has given me and allow me to survive and not lose my mind. It's given me the experience that I need to execute. To start that thing I have a very good understanding of who I am, where I am, what I'm capable of. And I'm I'm ready to put it in action. Right like I'm going for Full Tilt, no apologies. I'm not waiting for nothing. Who what I have done has has cultivated the WHO that I am the choices that I've made in life. Have me where I am. Right and so like I don't necessarily believe that like God charts your path. You have to choose to walk it. God charts a path. You have to choose to walk it and you decide whether you have shoes on or boots on or sandals on you decide that and he never said that the road was going to be easy. There is a road Are you going to walk in? I have given you everything that you need to walk this path? Are you going to walk it? Are you going to build the things that I told you to build? Are you going to sustain the things that I told you to sustain? Are you going to grow in the places that I have equipped you to grow in? What are you going to do? And maybe it's just me, but a fire was lit under me recently that was just like, bro, like, what are we waiting on? Why aren't we building I got everything that I need. All of the intellectual like, I got it. All of the relationships, I got it like, they don't, they don't escape me, who have whose permission and my waiting on. When God breathed the breath of life when I cried as a baby, and I believe this to my core, hear me, podcast. So I said, society, listen to what I'm about to tell you. When you breathe your first breath, it was all the permission, you need it to go be great. As soon as he gave you the breath, that was the permission that you needed to go. You're not waiting on anything else. As soon as he breathed the breath of life and you, you cried in the doctors, as soon as soon as that happened. That was all the permission you need. So go. You, he put everything in you. And this is, here's here's a here's an understanding, that will trip you out, right? You were born with all the skin, you need it. Think about that for just a second. I wait. skin is the largest organ you have. And you were given all that you will have when you were born, will will dead say and die will the cells regenerate. All of that is very true. But the organ itself, you were given all you needed as a baby. And you grew into what it was going to be shaped up as, but you didn't need any permission to grow. You just did it. So as soon as you were born, he gave you permission. So go. And maybe I'm just talking to me. Because I'm the one who's lived my life for last 30 plus years at this point. From one thing to another, making sure that everybody else was okay. Not really focused on me making decisions about my life based on what I think other people need. Based on what I think that they think about me, based on what I thought it meant to be a brother or a husband, or a pastor or a friend. What did you need me to be? That's what I was doing. And that's how I lived my life. I built my life around needing permission to exist. And so I went into survival mode. And I finally woke up out of survival mode. And now I'm trying to figure out who I am. What do I like? What am I supposed to be doing? That's a dangerous place to be at 33. So I'm telling you, wherever you are in your life, if you're looking for permission, you're looking for somebody to tell you it's time to go. Here. Listen to the podcast. It's time to go. Do what you feel like you're called to do. Do everything you think you're big enough to do and if isn't wrong, you'll be corrected. It'll be fine. You'll live so I got to say about that. All right family