HEY BRUH! Today I present to you Part III in this series called The Cain Mentality! In Part One I defined for you what the Cain Mentality is and how to identify that disposition! In Part II, I defined the concept of this mentality and showed you the legacy it leaves! In Part III, I going to share with you my life story and testimony on how God set me free from this mentality and brought me out of that darkness into his marvelous light! All Right! Let’s get started!
THE DARKNESS
One of the things that shocked
me when God brought me out from the darkness of this mentality I existed in,
was the depth, the breadth, and the height of that bondage! Listen, I thought I
understood what Romans 5:20 meant when it said “Where sin abounded God’s grace did
abound much more, but I did not realize just how much more it abounded in my
life until He brought me into His marvelous light! In addition to that, what was
more shocking, and also deflating, was the fact that I finally saw myself for who
I really was, and I had to acknowledge the filthiness of my unrighteousness! But
I could not do that in the dark! Why? Because the darkness covered my true identity so that I could not see how wretched I was!
Now if you put on a disguise and do something wrong, that means you know what you are doing is wrong
and you are trying not to get caught! In other words, you are using an exterior
façade to hide your interior intent! But when you exist in the darkness of the
Cain Mentality you will be blinded by a mindset that is absent of truth! That
means that because of how you think, everything about you, who you are, what
you say, and what you do is a lie, and that blindness is so dark, that even if
you could see the truth, you would not accept it!
This blindness is what produces
in the men who suffer from the Cain Mentality: identity crisis, selfishness, jealousy,
criminality, rebellion, anger, malice, and violent outbursts among other things!
This is an internal disposition that controls the external actions which in
turn convey to the world that you are something you were never supposed to be. However,
because you cannot see it, you will continue to exist in that darkness until
you get set free or until you perish!
FAILURE & THE SYNDROME
OF INSIGNIFICANCE
The Cain Mentality is
everywhere! It does not discriminate between race, creed, or color. It does not
care whether or not you are rich or poor, educated, or uneducated, religious or
secular, conservative or progressive. The only thing that differentiates it in the
institution of manhood is how it is manifested in men's lives both individually
and corporately! For instance, not every man can, will, or has an opportunity to
physically take the life of another, however, everyman can, will, and has an opportunity to use that military-style weapon in their mouth called a tongue to
deceive, disparage, deny, and destroy an entire generation!
For me, it manifested as failure and as far as I am concerned, failure is the deepest, broadest, and
highest darkness a man could ever exist in! Why? Because when you were born
into bondage you suffer from the syndrome of insignificance! That means when
you start with nothing, it teaches you to want nothing! When you want nothing, the
ability to achieve is diminished! When your ability to achieve is diminished,
you end up with nothing, or you never leave where you started! Let me break this
down!
MY STORY
Listen! There was a time
in my life when I walked around knowing that whatever I did, tried, planned, plotted,
or attempted was not going to succeed! It was not a misconception or a delusion! It was a reality that manifested itself as a cyclical pattern of failure
because I could not make good decisions, so I just acted on impulse, and that
was going on for years before I went to prison!
The rapidly increasing pressures of the bondage of insignificance kept me from succeeding in every part of my life! As I look back on my life it seems that I was the epitome of failure as a child until I was in my early thirties! This was a long time to exist in that darkness and not recognize or be recognized for my gifts and talents like other people I grew up with or my peers in general!
But the God of the universe,
in His infinite wisdom, created me to fulfill a purpose for His kingdom! What I
found out later on is that the purpose He ordained for my life meant that God
never intended for me to be a failure! Now, I didn’t find that purpose, because
it was already in me, but all that was connected to that purpose after I cried
out to God in the middle of that darkness when I was in prison and He heard my cry,
came into my life, brought me out of that darkness and into his marvelous
light! Since that day, I have been walking out of the darkness of failure and
the bondage insignificance by His spirit, and Hey Bruh, what he has for me he
will do for you!
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