Talented and Tormented

There are thousands of people still talking about the most prominant subject of Whitney Houston's death. It was sudden and unexpected. Many people called her voice the sound track of her life. The word sound in the greek is ehos where we get the english word echo. An echo is a sound of the past. What sound track are you listening to? What sound track was Whitney living or listening to that would make her unhappy and abuse prescription drugs as Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, or Don Coneilious with suicide?

We might not admit it but most people are either homicidal or suicidal at one point or another in their life. There is rage, anger, pain, hurt, and confusion. Her music blessed millions of people. She blessed the world. What was so painful that it could send to her prescription drugs. They found sleeping pills which means she wanted to sleep as did Michael Jackson. What was she trying to escape? Millions of people struggle to sleep and struggle to be awake because they are alarmed. YOu can be rich, famous, glamorous, talented, anointed and still be tormented.

What do you do when you are that gifted? She had a divine charge and authenticity about her life and her voice. She sang with such confidence and yet with so much reverance. But there is a human side. What was Michael Jackson thinking? What was the sound track of his life? What was Don thinking when he drew a gun on himself? It's that homicide and suicide thing that always lerks in the shadows of our lives. Some people express it in different ways-eating to much sugar, sodium, acholism, drug addiction. We all have to watch what is guiding us. What are you hearing. Faith cometh by hearing. Look at the word addiciton...something is DICtating to you what to do. You believe in what you hear. Paul said it best. He said that because he had been given this divine revelation or this special giftedness, he was given a throne in his flesh. A messenger from satan. Not the two horn satan, but negative emotions that says you can't be comfortable or live without excessive eating or sleeping pills. If you belive that you are less than what God says you are, it will manifest. Weather atheletes, musicians, entertainers, dancers, politians, preachers (anointed in the pulpit, but annoyed with there life)most gifted people battle between their divinity and the humanity.

The next time your humanity tries to challenge your divinity (who God called you to be) listen to that small voice inside of you. It will tell you what you what God thinks of you. Read Jeremiah 29:11. God knew you before you came here and developed these attitudes about yourself. Why are you here? God put you here for a reason.