Guys people on today show we take you into the house of mirrors and me and my homeboy LaVille explain to you Are the objects you see are closer than they appear. I should have wrapped that no I would have messed up Yeah, they would have laughed at before that I tell you that I'm going into art mode and explain why all my Facebook post that then so poetic and so majestic in you I'm about to let y'all live. It's gonna be a great time I also explain to you guys exactly why I was out last week because I wasn't feeling good But now you can sit back relax and enjoy My wife thinks I'm crazy, how do we get here? I can't believe y'all let me have a show Let me admire you he gave you vision and purpose but you struggle to dream because it's even so much But it's this new jeans for the ten of us denim.
I guess within them. There's a different perspective that I'm trying to present them It ain't always peace when you see the piece. It'll make you a Levi cuz you right Levi's what's up people? I am your host J Will And I would like to welcome you to inspire guys people where we balance faith and business to guide you to your purpose What's up guys people how you feeling man?
It feels good to be back. This is episode 129 so if you are first-time listener, I got one question for you. What's wrong with you? What took you so long?
That's two questions. Yeah, I can't count But it's all good Welcome to the party and just know that you got a hundred and something episodes that you need to catch up on Yes, this is one of those pot. Okay, I can't talk. Oh, yeah I can talk but this is the type of podcast where you need to go to episode one and start at the beginning and catch yourself up You know, you might not get to episode 130 the next one we doing it might take you a year fam I don't know we've been doing this for two and a half almost three years But I'm telling you there's a ton of content that you need to binge listen That's right.
You need to listen to a whole lot of it Listen to two or three episodes a day and I promise you this one thing you will hear my voice. All right, um today's gonna be a good time Man, I was sick last week I'm still not a hundred percent if I'm being honest There have been a couple of times in this week that I thought I was a hundred percent and you know was reminded that I wasn't Maybe we'll talk about that we got LaVille coming on the show y'all know I love on the Ville drops on well You're not dropping by or dropping on LaVille hasn't been in studio since before the pandemic for real for real We haven't done it in-person interview since before the pandemic. It's all been over the phone So I'm gonna call him today Um, so we don't have a good time and you know when the Ville comes on We don't uh rehearse or prepare anything is I love when he comes on the show because we literally just record and we talk We never know where each other is going we see what happened And so if it's horrible today you can blame him for not being a prepared person because preparation is the number one number two um, you know thing in my core values number two Point in my core. I don't know number my second value on my core values.
Um, people preparation performance I think I've talked to y'all about that before anyway that just went completely left field for no reason Um Shout out to my wife man Tiffany nurse Tiffany appreciate you baby girl Um, she took good care of me um this last week because I was I when I say I was out we'll get into it when the Ville gets on but I was out man and like it was it was crazy to me, but um, she did a great job taking care of me I definitely appreciate it and wouldn't have made it without her You know I'm saying might not have been another podcast people um if nervous nurse Tiffany Um didn't do her thing. So um, definitely definitely one of the blessings of marriage, you know, she get a nurse, bro You know, I don't know how to single fellas doing it, you know, because you can't trust I don't know y'all trust in these nurses that you just met the day, bro. I can't do it. What kind of okay?
Anyway, what am I talking about? Why are we going here? This is what happened when you sick and you're not 100 percent There's no reason to go there. Um, everybody.
I love all y'all. It's all love for me If you look at my um instagram and facebook post look I'm just talking about love and God and life and encouraging people inspiring people Um, because I'm just too much crazy stuff in the world for me man. I think the world has finally Just gotten too crazy for me. Um, I don't even like, you know, I don't even understand half of the things that are happening right now Like it's it's lotteries for vaccinations.
It's like it's like treating the vaccine like Like a prize at a carnival. I don't get I'm sorry like whether you probe that this like that ain't what it's about whether you wanted or not I'm not even getting into that conversation. I'm just saying we got to admit that it's kind of funny, right? The way it's being presented.
I'm like watching commercials and it's like when $10,000 if you I'm like wait a minute is this a scratch off or a vaccine? What's happening right now? Um, the world is going so crazy that I'm like, yo, I want nothing to do with most of that stuff I just want to talk about things that I believe are proactively good for us and right for us and hopefully that's what y'all get from this showman Hopefully it's a breath of fresh air and maybe a break from some of the stuff in the world even though I you know, sometimes I You're super passionate like I think I did in the last episode Where I will like start peeling back the layers and sharing some of those things and really just trying to speak my heart as the Lord leaves me Um, but then ultimately, you know and trying to also do this stuff in a practical way Um, with some emotional intelligence. That's a phrase that I've been using a lot lately on something that I've been continually working on because You know, I understand the importance with everything all the information that's flying around in the world people want to argue people are mad and You know, for me I'm just trying to rise above all those things and really focus on what the Lord wants me doing and but also be aware and understand What's happening in the world and how it's happening?
Um, and I think this is a time to run to the word of God for answers and not try to find them in ourselves Also not to try to like go to the word of God to confirm the answers that we want to hear But to really like take a step back and hear what the Lord is saying in this in his life in this world in this time Um, always say it I don't know if I've ever said it on the show But I think it's super important to understand the moment in time and moment in history that you live in You know, I'm saying like if you lived in the world when cars was coming out Um, you need to live in you need to understand that moment if you lived in a in the world when cell phones first started or email first started You need to live in the moment and understand what's happening where you'll be left to left behind outdated You won't know what's happening. So I try to understand the moment I really been And it'll always mean that the moments are good. It's not about if the moment is good or bad It's just about understanding where you live in history and what's happening a lot of times I think people take it I'm sure some of the people who was living when horses started going away and from a transportation perspective and cars started becoming more Prepping more prevalent and they probably was like, I mean, what's the big deal? Yeah, oh car I don't ever see anybody driving knows on a date.
Give me my real Mustang, buddy Give me my stallion and it's like, you know, a few years later. Oh, wow. Oh, cars are here. Okay.
So anyway That's how I think I have no idea why I'm talking about that now I think the quicker I stop talking now the quicker that new listeners will stay and not leave and be like What is this guy on this podcast? We talking about cars and history and transportation I promise you we're gonna have a good time today But I also just want you to understand a heart of what this show is about with this podcast was created and intended to do Was really to draw on the people with a faith together and to lead you to your purpose and your purpose your guide I'm not giving purpose, balance and faith in business, which I think really complement each other very well So I hope you continue to share this podcast Please do give us ratings and let us know what you think on apple podcast or Spotify wherever you believe ratings Um, it means a lot and I appreciate it But you know, let me stop talking for real and hit up my homeboy, LaVille So we can bring some excitement to the show because I'm just art. Okay. I'm gonna say this the last thing I'm really in artist mode.
Like I'm really like Shakespeare van goish. I'm an artist right now. Just it I'm sorry y'all. That's how I live life sometimes certain seasons cause for a certain part of who I am And um, I'm really in art mode like just and I'm not even creating anything I'm not creating music or anything, but I'm saying like the way I'm seeing life right now It's like as an artist.
I'm seeing I'm seeing paint. I'm seeing the canvas I'm seeing what's happening. Um, and that's how I'm living and that's the way that I'm talking right now to people Um, and I just want people to see the beauty and what God created the beauty and what what we all are and like the art of it Of like it's not perfect, but it's beautiful. Um, so that's what I'm on and um, yeah Let me let me call the ville because we know he ain't on that like let's get one thing for sure I don't know what he about to say, but I know he's gonna talk completely different to me He's probably gonna be super churchy.
Um, and definitely and probably tell all his business But he's definitely not gonna be vango or Shakespeare. So y'all about to get a break from that. Thank you I Speak with What up man, how you feeling bro? I feel well man all his will oh wow you will use that word purposely honey.
You feel well Okay You know how I know that that's how I learned that part of grammar. I'm horrible with grammar by the way Okay, just from working in corporate america. I'm like, okay So after about 200 times I asking people how they're doing today and professional settings and they say I'm doing well I'm like, yeah, I learned like you know what I don't I didn't know why you wasn't supposed to say good until right now You just taught me today. Well, you know, I like where I'm not surprised Now tell me this why is it that You being a graduate of both detroit public schools in high school Um and also a having a obtaining a college degree and me also the same why is it that we didn't learn that in all of that school that we had That's a little depressing, but anyway, man.
I'm glad it's kicking with you today my brother. Um for those of y'all out there who do not know Laval knows this but I am recovering from vertigo. I'm sick all week and um, you know, it's not covid You see you gotta literally start it off with I'm sick. It's not And god for me if you cough.
Oh my goodness You know, it's oh, I'm not coughing. I'm telling you that right now My cough 100 times this year, bro. I'm talking about right in the phase by the pass out. I refuse to Call I'm so serious.
Where was where we were somewhere recently at TIFF was looking at me like what are you doing? Because I was Instead of trying to cough. I just tripped. I kept trying to drink the cough away.
So I kept sitting in the water and it would It's okay Uh, man, but I yeah, I've been sick This is so this is a day five And uh, actually the best I've been I would say that I'm actually about 95 right now Uh back to my normal self. Um, yeah But I when I was just setting up for the show and getting the mic and everything and you know bringing everything to my office Because I'm scared to actually do interviews in the studio still because of my internet connection Uh, I turned too fast and I and the thing with it is Like I lost my balance, but here's the thing if you know, if a person never had vertigo or whatever I know you know about it You never had it. I'll have you Okay, it is one of the craziest things I've ever experienced in my life. Um, because It was different almost every day, but it's pretty much extreme dizziness and nausea at the same time So if you could imagine like losing your balance, but while that's happening feeling like you were about to You know, um, and that actually happened in a couple times.
Yeah, that was It was rough man in on the um, and then I'll be done with this But on the second day that I had it the first day was real bad. I slept for 16 hours But wow, yeah, you know, I don't sleep like that. That was Wednesday. Right?
Wednesday I slept for 16 hours and then um the second day I thought I was okay I actually thought I was great. So I got up. I'm like we good. Let's we can let's go to the show Go to the show, bro And I had to get up in the middle of the movie And when I tell you walking out, I literally looked like somebody drunk uncle and people were like, what's wrong?
I was falling up. It was it was bad and I was when sift looked at me like, okay, like you not right and any guy Works from there. That's when I started getting real nauseous and stuff that night But uh, here we are man by the grace of god nurse tiffany, uh, nurse me back to good health shut out to my wife Yes, good care of me man. She was really dope.
So, um, if i'm like if you wouldn't hear, I don't know what I would It is so because it was bad. So anyway, I'm still alive. I'm here. Thank god the podcast lives on Thank god Because you know, I would have took over it.
You need it If I need I can see you now like Ah, you're announcing to the people like the lord is putting on my heart to leave this great army of people Right army? It's like six of y'all That's why i'm joking. It's not six of us. We at least ten strong and expire guys people for sure Right.
Anyway, man. What's up with you man? What's up? Yo, wait, not it.
Not we know how i'm doing that i'm doing well You know, I guess you could say i've gotten What's up with you? You know, just chilling relaxing and preparing, you know, notice, you know things are starting to open back up Uh, you know a lot so we're just you know, just trying to get prepared for things and the other day I was uh, I was watching Jurassic Park. They're the first one in there. It was just really funny scene in there I don't know.
I'm assuming most people call it But uh, you know I think it was maybe midway through the movie. They were they were in the car driving away from a from a t-rex and you know, the t-rex was like the Biggest and bad is that is where the first movie no later on introduced other Dinosaur park park one. Yeah, it's a very very first The original Story Is gonna be around 92 Okay, most of the owners were literally we were I was a child Small child and they were literally baby. So I just I want you to know that not only was I a small child a lot of my listeners are a little younger To me about a couple years.
So anyway, go ahead finish your story I'm just getting myself ready for the types of emails that I'm gonna be getting Um, because two weeks ago when I'm using the example of I am Amazon stock in 1997 Which I wasn't open up to buy back then either but I use an example and people were like yo, bro There was no I'm like is just take the example. So go ahead take the example Right part one the one the one before HD existed before you know That's the one he's talking about yes the very first one So they run from this t-rex in the car and then there was a shot that steven spillbird did of the Mirror the side view mirror and in the mirror. You can see the t-rex chasing them But the mirror says something and if you look on your side view mirror in your car most likely it says it as well But it said objects in mirror are closer than they appear So they made that same funnier because it looked like the t-rex was at a certain distance But in the mirror it was saying that it's actually closer than it really actually is It was a true little thing that was really funny and witty and I was like, oh, okay cool As I said it was like, oh, I started thinking about things like huh. Well, how many times Does our past come up and appear closer to us than it actually is?
Now, I know everybody in your audience knows my nocs did pretty much every episode but the book of Philippians is you know, one of your definitely one of your favorite books in the bible and We go to shout out. Um, you and I did a teaching on my program quarantine with ville Uh, we do a chapters one inch after two and we are going to be doing chapter three and chapter four in August So stay tuned. I think it's gonna be the first and the third Thursday You and I will be doing a teaching to finish that up with Philippians chapter three and chapter four But chapter three of Philippians versus 13 and 14 says this But I count not myself to have apprehended which means he's not saying basically he said i'm not i'm not saying i'm perfect I'm not saying i'm all the way there but this one thing I do For getting those things which are behind And reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in Christ jesus That was the scripture that popped into my head when I was watching that scene and I saw that objects and mirror are closer than every Because many times when you think about it, you know, whether it's the devil Whether it's our family members, whether it's our friends or enemies Or whether it's ourselves a lot of times we bring all things in our past and make them appear closer to us Than they actually are I like it man. That's pretty deep.
Um pretty deep I was wondering where you were gonna go because you know, I've heard the objects in the mirror are closer than they are pure mentioned a lot of times But I've never heard it um brought it like this So I think this is a um just a great example like the idea of your past seeming closer Um, it's interesting to me and one of the things that's interesting about what you said to me is that You know when you look because they were looking in the side view mirror, right? And when you think about a side view or a rear view mirror Those mirrors are not intended for you to look at yourself Those mirrors are intended for you to look behind you And so All right, this is literally what I posted on instagram in my story this morning. Oh wow I posted on my story. I said, you know, I've learned to hold myself accountable versus blaming others And I said because when you When you blame others you give them too much control over your life, right?
That's the easy thing to do But then I said although every situation is different Look in the mirror before you look out the window That's what I said about eight o'clock this morning And here's what you saying makes me think of look in the mirror before you look out the window When you look into that side view mirror that mirror does not intend it for you look at yourself You got to look out the window before you get to that mirror But if you look in a mirror that's intended like in your bathroom the mirror where you see your own reflection I never even thought about the fact that like there's different types of mirrors like mirrors have different purposes until you just said this And it's helping me even have a perspective about that But I think sometimes we think we're looking in the mirror As in looking for our, you know, man in the mirror I'm gonna look at myself and see what's wrong with me and really we're cheating because we're looking in the side view mirror And so here are times that the lord wants us to be looking at ourselves so we can correct whatever we did wrong Does like me and my wife get into it then it's easy for me to point the finger at what she did and hey I did what I did because you did what you did, right? It said we started looking through the rear view mirror But what guy really wants us to do is look in the mirror where it's really our reflection Wow That is really good. In fact, I can't think of where it is right now, but here's there's a scripture It talks about where Paul was talking about us, you know, looking in a mirror into a mirror Generally, right? But you know you need to clean it off, right?
You need to be able to see yourself seeing yourself and I really got to think about the fact that you know different mirrors have different purposes And they're even made differently apparently because While the objects in my side view or real room area closer than they really are But a mirror is actually made to show you a exact replication of who you are So mirrors are even made different so we have to dress they have different purposes So wow, that's really good. You know, so we have to be careful that we're looking in the right mirror That's great like because when you think about it the side view mirror the intention of it is to protect you from hitting something So we even looking in the wrong mirror for the wrong reason We're looking in the side view mirror to dwell on the past When you if you are looking at the side view mirror is because you're about to make a transition And so it's like, okay I got you in this one space and before I transition you I need to make sure that you have cleared those things behind you So that you didn't hit them or run over them So it's like, okay All right, jamais if you used to have a drinking problem and we got past that and we got you on this new path and a new lane Now i'm about to transition you now that you got past the drinking problem I'm going to transition you over here I'm only having you look in the side view mirror to ensure that you have cleared the drinking problem Change lanes, that's why when you look in that mirror it seems closer than it appears So it's like at the end of the day where it's like you got to make sure the intention So like I think sometimes we really struggle on why do I look back? Like what am I looking back for looking back? There could be good reasons to look back But there could be some people who look back and they get caught in that side view mirror And the thing about it is if you get stuck looking in that side view mirror then what paul said it comes in in the play Where is that side view mirror is it for you?
It's for you to glance at it's not yet for you to dwell on or you'll hit something in front of you We called worded that he said forgetting those things Which are behind you now you didn't need to get it like Whatever you did that he was saying that's not your second you imagine driving your car And you only look in the mirrors you never look out the window You're going to have an accident easily So if you only look in the mirrors and don't look out the window you are going to have an accident So the purpose of those mirrors like you say are transitional is from your take a glance Make sure that i'm clear from whatever is in the way or possibly is in the way so that I can move to the next line Different as we as we say in church so I can go to the next level or the next dimension You know depending on whatever church you phrase is at the time you say that in church. I don't use words like dimension Um, I don't I don't just get deep for no reason like that. Um, if I get you know, I do Churchy for no reason in the flag Um, here's what's dope about this though because it makes me think like I just keep thinking different mirrors So you got to understand the purpose of what you're looking at is what it comes down to right Because a lot of times we don't know how to apply this stuff. So I really want to like kind of unpack what we're saying Um This morning, um, I got up because again, it's the first day that I could actually walk around and do do normal stuff So I'm five days behind on stuff is like things that I was needed to do for work last week Actually, I was technically off work.
I was on vacation last week But I knew I was going to still be working a little bit Um, so getting sick really messed me up because I got a um, fairly um big meeting coming up on sous day And this is like an in-person meeting, you know, I'm we getting back to in-person meetings and business travel I'm booking some trips and things like that. So, um, I got this big meeting coming up and You know, I didn't I got all kind of clothes and shoes I mean, I got I got a bunch of shoes and stuff and so um, a lot of it I haven't worn because it was so many sales going on in the pandemic I'm like, you know, don't leave the pandemic at the end that also included my closet Um, so we got a bunch of new clothes and shoes and I'm ready to unleash and stuff especially business related stuff and um So I was upstairs in the mirror Trying on stuff to see how it looked before I go to this meeting. Here's my point Different mirrors have different purposes The mirror that you're looking in when you're checking yourself, right? And you're looking at yourself first for me in this instance I was looking in the mirror to prepare for where I'm going Because I don't want the first time that I show up to this important meeting To be the first time that I like I never looked at myself And the first time I was looked at or judged or made sure this shirt was button right or this was tucked right or this Whatever that it looked right was allowing someone else to see it And so what am I saying there?
I'm saying it There are times in our lives where we have big, you know, big moments coming up And when you don't take the time to prepare That like you're when you don't take the time to look in the mirror and prepare Then you will get to somewhere where God calls you to and you will make a fool out of yourself because you didn't look in the mirror first So that's one purpose for me I don't know if you got something added or whatever But it's like one purpose of a mirror is to prepare Like I need to look at myself not so that I can get down or depressed But so that I can be prepared for where I'm going Wow, you know, I found that scripture. It wasn't followed with james james chapter one That's 22. It's under 22. Um, this is the nlc It says don't just listen to guys where you must do what it says.
No the king james says Be here uh doers of the word and not heroes only right? Otherwise you're only fooling yourselves Then he goes on to verse 23 to say if you listen to the word and don't obey It is like glancing at your face in a mirror You feel yourself walk away and forget what you look like But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard Then god will bless you for going it. Yeah, we just read that um Last week I believe on the show. Oh wow I'm actually seeing a few episodes behind but I have been really into it Once again guys people this is proof that I am in a prophetic ram ahead of the veil At all times just last two weeks.
We have read james chapter one And I believe the second half was last week or two weeks ago now because we last week I was sick episode 128 Um quick to listen and so slow to speak um was um, you know where we read james once so look no this This is what I love about this though, you know, because obviously we don't we don't do any preparation when you come on the show Which is amazing that you would pick up right where I left off a couple weeks ago. Um talking about which which shows this is my prophetic Yes, now you would argue Okay, we let's say 50 50 we can split the prophetic No, but what I love about that right is you know, what's important to me with this show man Is that people that we don't just throw out a bunch of cliches and catch phrases? But people figure out how to take the word and apply it to their lives Which is what I was just talking about we're looking in the mirror and then you pull out that scripture that we just read two weeks ago That really is the purpose behind it's saying hey look you have to actually do something with this word So like like and it's funny because I've been having this conversation with france family Um, you know a lot of people seem like this idea of acting on the word has been coming up a lot lately And I want to go back to like the the initial thought behind Um the objects in the mirror that are behind you, right? And a lot of us are looking in that side view mirror and allowing it to stop us from going forward now Here's what's crazy to me Why is it or how is it that something behind you should be able to stop you from going forward?
Could you imagine like imagine this imagine you got you got to put this in action imagine you're walking through your house I wanted to stop you from getting somewhere. I would have to put something in front of you Great. It doesn't even make sense for us to allow things that we've already passed to stop us from going forward Like if a dog is chasing you try putting something behind him and see if he stops by it Stop trying to bite you Now if you want to stop that dog or whatever is attacking you if you want to stop an attacker You need to put something in front of it But we are the only ones who allow things behind us to stop us from moving forward as paul calls pressing towards the mark Wow make it make sense, libel. Why can we do that?
I wish I could answer that question and and like you said we do it all the time, you know, we allow our past to hinder our future and I don't I don't know why we do um I wish I could answer that because that would help me and it would You know quite a few people but we do it all the time. We allow our past to stop maybe it's because maybe it's because we're only looking back Maybe maybe we're driving our car. We're only looking in the mirror Maybe we're not looking forward. I'm looking ahead, right?
Notice in that jane passage, you know, it says, you know, a man looks in the mirror and then leaves and forgets what he looks like Right, when I first wake up, you know, you might have sleep in your eye You got the sleepy face, you know, and I look in the mirror and see that But I don't think anything about it and I just go outside I'm not gonna look at everybody else's don't look at me and notice I'm gonna be doing what she's face. You didn't do it until it's here You know, and I think we do that all the time. We'll look but we won't deal with our issues. We won't deal with our past You know, that's why I'm always talking about moving forward pressing forward I think I said he was talking about Jesus.
He said who throw the joy that was set before him and do it across, right? What joy it was. Hey suffering, right? But he was looking beyond that He didn't let that stop he didn't let the pain and suffering that he knew he was about to go through stop him He let that be in his real mirror And he kept pressing forward why because he said it was for the joy that was set before him because he knew what his purpose And his goal was going to accomplish.
So he knew the value Of what was in front of my because I'm just thinking through practically like how can how can we get people steps? So it's like number one look through the mirror look forward in the mirror the reflective mirror to prepare yourself for you going Right. So because it's really two things that play right here It's what's in front of you and what's behind you. There's a battle taking place, right?
So there's something that you're going to and something that you've been through and you're in the middle of these things and they seem to both Be pulling at you because look the objects in the mirror are closer than they appear So both things are close to you, but here's and I'm gonna be honest with you, man. This is just me talking This is what I don't like about stuff Even I'm not look this is I'm being non-B&D right? This is me being deep like Why is it that they made sure that they put that on the mirror that you looking back to? To remind you that something is closer to you than what it looks like, but we never look at what's in front of us as closer than what it looks like We always think what's in front of us like we always think the thing that we're striving for is so far Right, and you know like like but it makes it like almost unobtainable So for instance, if you're like if you're in a bad situation trying to get out and make it seem like all of you from the east side of Detroit You can never now you can never become this that's too far But that you know that thing behind you being in the streets selling drugs smoking we doing all this stuff That's closer than it appears, bro Turn around right now.
I have that right now. Why is that? Wow, I don't know You probably don't get some letters or emails on this too But are you old enough to remember Bob Lo Island? Bob Lo Island?
Yeah, yeah, we went there a couple times as a kid Oh, I like those of you who are too This is the case owners under there is no problem This is like like see the point it was in the knees depart But it was on an island so the way we get the Bob Lo there was called the Bob Lo boat Right we actually put a drive down town we get on the Bob Lo boat and we take the boat to the island Now the boat was found ahead use it going through and everything on the boat You know, so it was a fun ride there But that thing always noticed is that it seemed like it took forever to get to see the point I mean to a Bob Lo It seemed like it took forever to get there But on the way back it seemed like it went by quick It was the exact same difference distance there and distance back It took the exact same amount of time the boat was going the exact same speed But it seemed like it took forever to actually get to Bob Lo Island Why because we were anticipating it we couldn't wait All right, we just were all excited. We can get the Bob Lo You get there now these behind you being things like they are moving quicker So I think we need to be you know, I think it's okay for us to be excited about what guys done It's about us about not being anxious for nothing right We get too anxious sometimes and we just oh man just oh man I gotta get through my goal and my purpose and we don't a lot of times we don't want to take the steps necessary to get there And if you slip steps via somewhere down the line you're not gonna have the information that you need to get to where you need to be So you're saying like we could be so anxious that we almost trip over ourselves like I've been doing all week with vertigo I We go in a vertigo island if we don't get there is gonna be a bunch of people tripping over themselves Can't see where they going and I'm not trying to be funny like because this ain't all the way funny yet because I still got this a little bit I'm still right but here's what's crazy about what I've been going through in relation to this When you have vertigo do you realize today? It's been five days and today was the first day that I was able to look at myself in the mirror and focus on something without it moving Right, so what I'm saying is like It's crazy to me that when you have something like this that and they say here's what they say All right when you when you look at vertigo like there could be a bunch of different reasons or ways you can get it But one of the more normal ways that you have it is because something is in your ear And something being in your ear causes your entire body to be off balance All right, I want you to think about I want you to step back A lot of us are allowing so many different voices and so many different people in our ear So we begin this battle between where we going and what's behind us And something and we dizzy and we can't see straight and we on vertigo island And we trying to figure out is it something wrong with my eyes? Is it something wrong with the mirror like here's what's crazy?
I got vertigo, but my ears don't hurt I'm dizzy. I'm my stomach everything but my ears hurting it. What am I saying? Like if you're not careful You will be on vertigo island trying to fix everything but the problem So what's the problem?
Simple as are we here as endures of the word of God is the word of God the thing that's going into our ears Like some of us are listening to the wrong podcast we listen to the wrong music the wrong Like it's it's so much out here. Don't give me wrong. It's a lot of good out here too and a lot of people are listening to good stuff I'm not saying we don't need good show But what I am saying is that if I get off of inspire guys people and turn it to let's just call it um pop culture entertainment television whatever just make up a station name and I watch that for 30 minutes if a 30 minutes all they do is talk about this Celebrity she got this surgery this celebrity he did this this person stole this this person Like at some point all of the things going in my ear Is gonna cause my entire body and my lifestyle spiritually to go off in balance And that's how you get the vertical island So what I guess ultimately what I'm saying is that in this battle between what's in front of you and what's behind you You have to ask yourself what what do I believe? Wow, that's that's really really really good You know because like you said the bible says be doers of the word and not hereers only You still have to hear the word But you're not just only hearing the word you are doing what the word says You know, I was thinking as you were talking like, you know, I have never no honey.
No has anyone listening to this program What was he about to say? Nobody you never Never Seen our face without looking in a mirror. This one of the weirdest parts of life to me I don't know what I look like Some of you are thinking you find it is like Exactly you can never see yourself with your own eyes Wow, that's actually scared that is all I've thought about that I've no idea why you just said it, but it scares me like the thought of it like I can see everyone else clearly with my own eyes But I can never look at myself that way is one of actually the weirdest aspects of life And I'm sure some of us would look differently than we think if we saw ourselves Mmm. Yeah.
Yeah The word of God is our mirror So we have to constantly read the word of God so that we can see who we really are. All right, but I want to be a In my bathroom This mirror, I don't know who made it if I find out who made it. I will thank them right But it makes me look thinner than I am. Yeah I Who's mirror are you looking to now?
If I hold it to that mirror Just to make me feel good about myself. That's still not the way everybody else is seeing me That's just the way I'm looking at myself Right. So the question is are you looking at an actor? Or are you looking at me?
Every mirror is a perspective Like what you're saying because I had to happen to me all the time. I'm not gonna lie. I can look in one mirror And I'm like yo, I'm killing it like I look great today like my skin looking good I'm feeling good and then I can go and like wal-mart This is when it usually happened to me and like wal-mart or something you walk in pads like the mirror out And you have a look at yourself and you like wait a minute Oh This a different mirror like so ultimately even when I think I'm sorry to keep bringing it back a vertigo But the reason I keep bringing it here is because all of this is about is what does something appear to be? So like this moment last night right again.
Yesterday. I was saying I was about 85 90 percent today I'm 95 percent so you know I'm starting testing and trying to do new things because it's been four or five days I've been sick and I'm like I've been walking around like 85 year old man I don't like it scared I scared to turn around like turning around has been a scared thing in the last four days So last night when I when I got in bed It was like I went in the closet or something and must have changed my clothes or something And when I came out I jumped on the bed But like the way I jumped and laid on the bed It was like on my side or something right I got in the bed level and I can't you have to picture some creepy movie or something right? When I got in the bed because I thought I was feeling good and I wasn't dizzying wasn't losing myself in vertigo no more I was off a vertigo island When I got on the bed Then I was like ah And Tiff was like what and I was like oh my god. I thought I was just falling I laid on the bed and a second after I laid on the bed It felt like the entire bed moved and then shifted and I was falling off But I wasn't it was the vertigo The vertigo was making me feel as it was making me feel even though I was balanced Because I was on my side it was making me feel off balance like I was falling But I was feeling still and so what am I saying?
I'm saying like a point that you just made is that every mirror that we look into Gives us a different perspective and here was what here's what was scary about that moment last night And I think this will be a moment that I'll never forget it felt real And so there are times that we were looking into the enemy's mirrors To find out about ourselves to learn about ourselves and our desires and our wants and all these feelings I have and all this and the things that the enemy is showing me feels real So I'm believing his perspective, but it goes back to what you said You said that the bible is our mirror. Can you talk about that like at all? Can you can you tell us the importance of the bible being our mirror? Yes, the bible is the word of God.
I see it's funny you mentioned I'm actually doing a series on quarantine with avail about the bible The first one was is the bible really the word of God? The second was how do we get the bible and there was going to be about the various translations of the bible So that's what you're even going to do too. I started listening yesterday Uh, before the day before yesterday was one of these days I was in bed with vertigo And I got maybe 40 minutes in and it's like I started getting nauseous because even words coming out too fast was making me sick So I got to get back to it was what you elder Mike and Desmond. I think it's nice I don't know him personally good.
Yeah, enjoy in that conversation so far. So um, definitely check out quarantine with avail important conversations about the bible Y'all go really in depth in scripture and it helps me in that conversation in particular about how we got the word of God is something I'm like super anxious to finish up. So dope stuff. Oh praise God.
Thank God, man. I Apprentices to Help me out. I did the one on the um, you know, is the bible really the word of God and you know, not to go too deep But we look at the evidence of the manuscript evidence the archaeological evidence the science of statistical probability the prophetic evidence We look at all these things that all comes together that the bible is actually the word of God So the importance of the word of God is that it never changes it never changes. It's the one constant People may say I'll be just through you and they may flip the script and not be there for you You may feel one way emotionally through a movie over the next day.
The only consistent thing in our lives is the word of God That is our mirror. That's how we would have be ourselves When I was younger, I think they still have them, you know, you go to the carnival or use the park or something they have the little funhouses, right? Now we were going there they have these rooms I was going to call but there's a different type of High-slowed mirror. That's it.
So you are going to want to make make make you short and wide You want another mirror that you long and skinny and thin and just tall, you know, everyone has your face all contorted, right? Which mirror are you looking in? You have mirrors from the enemy? You have mirrors from your family?
You have mirrors from your friends? You have mirrors from your enemies? You have mirrors for yourself But which one of those mirrors is the one that's always going to be consistent that is going to be the word of God The word of God is the one constant and I like it's the one thing that never changes That's what we need. We need a constant, you know, because if I'm just going by my family's mirror My family made me when I was whatever don't know if I was going in the streets, right?
And they're not able to see me now the way God sees me Um, I may not be able to forgive myself for some of the things I did in my past So if I'm still looking in the bridge mirror, then I'm gonna still be looking at objects that are closer than they appear, right? But when we look into the mirror of the word of God, it's the one thing that's constant The one thing that we should hold on to so I admonish and that's why I thank God for this program It's sorry guys people because you always look at things from a biblical perspective You look at things feel like business entrepreneurship all that but you still look at it through the lens of God's word Man, that's some good stuff, bro. Thank you for breaking that down And I want to make sure man like because this is such a this is helping me It's encouraging me because like me and my wife have been talking a lot about peace peace has been the word in the last few weeks in particular And the topic that we've been diving into when we've learned how in our marriage, you know, as time goes and maturity comes We've learned how to really, you know, just get more vulnerable and dive into these topics in a way Where you're not trying to be right? You're not trying to, you know, seeing no type of way But you just, you know, being honest about some of the struggles that we all have some of the challenges We all have in the perceptions and flaws that we all have I know I have many of them And like as I as I think about this idea of like this mirror In a conversation of peace In particular, I'll tell you one of the things that I've talked about not just with my wife But with a lot of people lately is like are um, you know, are um, you can say physical attraction I guess is the way to say it, right?
Um, there's such Um, a pressure I think like never before in this particular society for people to look pretty right to look attractive Not beautiful because beauty is flawed. Um, something beautiful a rock can be beautiful and a rock has been through a lot Um, but but we want to be pretty which is more like being perfect And I got a whole podcast about this just look for the title it talks about pretty and beautiful and we have a guest on that show They break it down, but here's my point that i'm getting down to We want to be pretty and attractive because we are more focused on the mirrors that show us what we look like on the outside The bible is the only mirror that shows you an internal reflection So when you think about looking into the word of god The word of god penetrates beyond your skin beyond all the things that we put on every day to cover up and to look like something And it shows you who you really are So the reason you want to look in this mirror the word of god before you're looking at other mirrors Is because this mirror ain't gonna show you what it look like it's gonna show you what it is Wow Hey, man, that is Excellent summary and I think you hit the nail on the head Amen, so we you know You know about a substance you know a scripture says who's reporting you're gonna believe right? I'm gonna believe the report of the lord, you know, so i'm gonna believe what the bible says about me You know, I remember um when I talk 40 It's so I think you just let the audience know just as somebody has a same me I'm not paying y'all i'm a little overweight. I'm definitely over the weight that I shouldn't be, right?
So what I would go on when you do and I still do it to be honest Um, but I wear clothes that are a little bigger to try to hide some of the uh, you know The overweight the fact I'll say the word. I ain't scared This is not the words being shared right now You we are not when they show calling this me and fat and Well, I had a big birthday party for my 30th birthday and you and your amazing wife took me shopping You know, I remember that you all took me shopping to buy me an outfit for my 40th birthday party and what your outfit out was Amazing, but I felt like it was too tight because I went into high the The Right Basically And I cannot express how many compliments I got from that outfit that you all bought me I mean literally 40 or 50 comments at least And then all I I Is Look in the mirror The Everything and he loves you just the way you are and he makes provision that there is something all that needs to be changed He makes provision for that in his word Yeah, what I love about, um, I mean, I think it's weird that you tell so much of your business You know I know how much you weigh But but here's what I do love about it in all in all seriousness. Um, you don't try to create a false image I mean, sometimes I think you may be make a worse image like if I didn't know you I would I would have very much expectations. Let's put it that way, but I don't think it's as bad as you make it seem Um at all but but I but I think the point is right and even in this conversation And what I'm hoping that people gain from this man is that you know, this is not a place where we try to have superficial Images, right?
I am not um Superman. I am not like some, you know, um, like Something that you can't be, you know what I mean? We all we all may have superpowers that that that God has given us and we're gifted Figuratively in that way, but I mean from a quite literal sense. Um, I'm a very flawed man I still have struggles and things that I have to overcome there objects in my mirrors that seems closer than they appear and things that I'm constantly striving for And as I kind of say when we came on earlier, it's like You know one of the things that I'm learning and all of this and the reason that we're talking about looking in the mirror and understanding your flaws And who you are and accepting those is because I think what the world has conditioned us to do is blame our quote unquote Haters and blame other people.
But what that does is, um, I'll say this um as an example man strikes again Um, so those of you who are fans of example man. I do have a couple fans of example man on twitter by the way So let's do example man. Um, he's striking again in the middle of my sentence. Um, I think I've given this example on the show But I'm gonna give it again Um, one of my absolute favorite episodes of fresh Prince ability.
Do you remember this? Have I told you this? I don't know. I don't know where this is going.
All right, great. That's great. There we are. There we are.
You know, looking at mirror prepare Um, so, you know, everyone knows that the song the song that comes on Um, west valley delphi of born and raised all of that, right? And we'll get paints the story of he was in the playground and all This is a particular mirror, right from his perspective. He's on the playground He's doing one of fight on and he goes and moves Well, there's this one episode where where wheel goes back, right? He goes back to his past and visits his old hometown And I remember he finds himself on the basketball court again faced with the guy who was the bully back then that beat him up and sent him out to belly Right?
This was this literally has never left my mind Will Wanted to fight him that day To try to avenge his cowardness of his past Mmm And the guy who was the former bully had looked at wheel and said look man, you haven't grown past that I don't have anything to prove to anybody but these six people behind me and i'm paraphrasing But here's what that made me think about Never be the person in the story Who's being held back from something in the past and other people have moved on and matured beyond it And the reason you're being held back catch this is because you're blaming them But while you're blaming them they have grown So for me the reason why I believe in looking in the mirror and trying to figure out what I did wrong and try to better myself Is a because I know I did wrong in life. I know that i'm not some squeaky queen clean Never made a mistake person But b is because look man, I'm praying that people move on i'm paying that people praying that people grow But I don't want to be left behind what does par se pressed towards the mark Yeah, we'll find himself in a situation where he was never able to grow past the objects in his mirror But the objects had grown And that was something I just was like I never want to be like that I never want to be holding on and blaming people and mad at the world in the world has grown and here I am still stuck I'm actually I actually have never seen that episode Wow, okay I'm gonna I'm gonna watch that today actually Um, yeah, I watched the reunion of the first person reunion that they had and one thing that did impressed me is that you know Will Smith and his real life he dealt with that whole issue with uh, I kept it your name Janet The first time being on the you know Yeah, there's like this big thing with them like they were battling cussing each other out on on uh, you too and instagram and Social media sites and I mean just was this long 20-year Fewer and then he actually applied to his life and he apologized. I thought I was young I was thought I was on top of the world. He's actually dealt with that issue then and I thought about you know a lot of favorite shows Is Martin you know remember that before?
Oh, I know you remember this episode when he went to um his reunion the school reunion and his Poetry purpose for more pretty wicked pretty wicked what they called you know the only reason he went Just to show them that he was better than that and that he had succeeded But in here when she heard it was alerted to some inshale faceless all contorted to mess up And it got to the point he had to realize I don't care what you all think about me I know that I have in my life So okay, so all right so from a very practical sense This biblical mirror that we talking about it will cause you if you want a situation for instance and you want to go and snut on old people You want to go and like you want to go and improve everybody prove everything to somebody the biblical mirror will cause you to look internally At what is the real insecurity that's taken? What's the real thing that's happening and it ain't about you trying to care about them Is that you know the piece that surpasses all understanding and here's what's crazy man Me and till for joking because like I told you I tried to go to the show and I was looking crazy And I was like, you know what had been embarrassing if like, you know If sometime in the past me and Tiff had broke up or something and then I caught myself going out to the show and then I ran out At the show and to her and her new guy I was like, man that was a bit And you just don't let it rock it like you She was like, I'll be like, hey Jay Will fell off Like That's how we live our lives a lot of times is we live our life more focused on trying to prove things to people But here's what's crazy like you said with Martin in that situation with Gina He was trying to prove something to them that wasn't true See most of us want to ignore who we are and take on an image of something that the world has told us that we should be Because we think that image is what we need to be to be good enough for people to envy us And I think guy has called us to more than being envy for our looks or our possessions Guy has called us to purpose and to actually be a part of the reason why people are healed and why people move forward in their gift and their calling So I think when you talk about understanding the purpose in the mirror that you're looking in You're looking in the biblical mirror so that you can find purpose and also lead others to purpose Because just like with the parable of the talents when God comes back He wants to see interest on the gifts that he gave you he did not give us gifts so that we could go stun on people And you only learn that in the bible you don't learn that from your favorite rap videos or movies or like you don't learn that Exactly forgetting those things which are behind you. I press toward the mark What is your goal? If you get your goal in mind where you want to be where you feel like God is called you to be You will not even have time To look behind you and worry about what's going on.
I'm always ready to say it You know when somebody does something to you in your past or whatnot and you know like you brought an interesting point You know it's like we're upset for 10 20 years and that person sometimes doesn't even remember what happened They're not even going you know, but you are so I always want to say that forgiveness when you forgive somebody You're not doing it for them You're doing it for you That forgiveness is to release you so that you can quit looking in the mirror at the objects that are closer than they appear Or looking in the funhouse mirrors right or looking at through the family mirror or the friend mirror the enemy mirror Look forward like you said in your incident. But look through the window Look forward to what your goal and your purpose is and I think that's what this program is about You know propelling people to or their goal and toward their destiny. Yeah, man And I'll wrap it up and say this, you know welcome to the house of mirrors. Um, this show is really a mirror Um, but here's the problem.
I know that there's a million podcasts There's a million instagram posts a million influencers, right? So when you really look at it at the big picture level inspire guys people is just one mirror in a house of mirrors with hundreds or thousands of mirrors And what happens is people walk in and we got you know, it's a whole bunch of listeners Like we get thousands of listeners on this show and I appreciate every one last one of y'all But what i'm really looking for um on this journey is not just people who walk past this show in a house of mirrors But people who will stand in front and choose this mirror Like and so what i'm ultimately saying in your life and it's not about this podcast I'm using that as a figure of speech what i'm saying is the message of this show Like you have to be able to walk into a house of mirrors and understand you got tv You got media, you got friends, you got family, you got your job You have all of these messages coming up in your ear that can throw you off balance But instead of looking at every mirror and trying to be everything to everybody and all You need to choose a mirror The reason that some of us never act on the word of god is because we haven't chosen the word of god It's hard to act on something that you haven't chosen you heard it, but you can't be a doer until you choose this mirror The word says I have said before you life and death therefore choose life Choose life. Yo appreciate you bro for jumping on the day, man. This was an excellent time I'm looking forward to coming on quarantine with levail um, but yeah, man.
This was unexpected I had no idea what you were bringing to the show. Um, but it's about time Let me say just prophetically before we go now prophetically. I know you're gonna title this episode house of mirrors. Whoo.
You right? You're right Well, I like Now I just want you to just think about it. You know, I know prophetically you got an amen I like the welcome to vertigo island. Okay.
All right. We might we might we might rock with that I think I think for the first time in the history of this show Um because believe it or not vertigo island was my first topic as we were talking through. Um, so I may I may Go ahead and give you The authority on this one and we're gonna title this episode welcome to vertigo island and maybe I'll sneak in a house of mirrors In a sub topic or something like that. Um, it is time for you How do you do house house of mirrors welcome to vertigo island?
Okay, so now you just made it more confusing. I see how you choose I do like that. So we'll have to see house of mirrors welcome to vertigo island We may have to we may have to title with that um, but right about now it's time to make you an object in my review mirror that seems closer than in the So