The biggest question I keep asking myself is:

“What do I offer my generation?”

Or put in a better way:

“Am I offering my generation my best?”

I am almost 50 and that question still haunts me.

If I’ve been around that long and I have not made my mark,

Then will I really make it?

What do I have to offer my generation that’s new, fresh & different?

I am plagued with a fear that I will live life as an average,

And I know deep down that that’s not my destiny.

I cannot live life in fear of what people think,

Neither must I live life according to the meager standards of others.

There’s more to life that can be reached.

There’s more to life that can be offered.

I know there’s more,

And I must play my part in shaping that more.

I don’t want to be stuck in the wilderness of expectations.

I’ve left Egypt but I know there’s a promised land ahead.

I know I was made to enter the promised land,

But I seem to be spending too much time in the wilderness.

The Red Sea is behind me.

My obvious enemies are drowned in my past.

But now I struggle with the enemies within:

Those lurking and lying voices of unbelief that keep me transfixed.

If I don’t break their spell,

I may end up satisfied with the manna in the desert,

And never experiencing the milk and honey in Canaan.

There’s a light that I need to shine.

It’s in me and I know it.

There’s a fire I need to burn,

It’s in me, I know it.

So why am I staying where I am?

Why will I not break free?

I must break free to make my mark.

I must accept that I cannot conform to the norm.

I must exert myself in great discipline and pursuit.

I must be true to who I am and what I believe in.

God has not made me to stay ordinary.

Ordinariness is the crime of the wasted life.

Be ordinary on the outside,

But be a true thunderbolt within.

You are made to leave a mark in your generation.

You must repeat that to yourself again and again.

You cannot conform to normalcy. You cannot.

Others are forging ahead with their pursuits,

And they are leaving their trails on the world stage.

Others seemingly unknown to the world,

Have made their impressions on millions worldwide.

People are following people who are not people of value or truth.

If I stand for truth and live for truth,

Why can’t I make my mark for truth and have men follow truth?

People will follow people.

If you believe you have a message worth listening to,

Then publicize it.

If you have an example worth showing,

Then display it.

If you have a passion worth sharing,

Then shout it.

Blast it loud and clear, and don’t mind what small minds think.

The conservative majority are satisfied with the old systems.

We need to revive the old in a new format.

We need to bring the same truth of yesterday into the light of today.

We need to speak the language of today with the core of yesterday.

I have this to offer my generation.

I have truth to present to my world.

I owe my world my all,

Because I was salvaged from the wreckage,

I am indebted to my generation.

It’s not fame and popularity that I want;

I need to make a tangible mark for the King;

I need to make a tangible mark for truth;

I need to influence a new generation to radically think differently.

Time is running out.

I know it.

I feel it.

It’s time to act.

“O Lord, lift me out of the murky waters of shadowy living.

Raise Your banner high in my life.

May Your light shine brightly before me and around me.

Let courage rise in my bosom.

Let my restlessness overwhelm me and push me out.

Let Your Spirit prevail on me to step into the limelight.

Lord, I refuse to accept ordinariness.

I refuse to live like the silent majority.

I am committed to live for and fight for truth.