yesterday's man

I was lost in my own world as I often am working on a video project earlier this afternoon, when I looked up and saw Sean Alexander standing over my desk.

Sean is a former NFL MVP running back for the Seattle Seahawks and had spoken a few months ago during our weekend services. He was meeting with Mark, when they walked by my desk and stopped long enough to allow Mark to introduce me.

Everyone likes to name drop. It's in our nature to associate ourselves with someone bigger and more recognizable in larger social circles. I can't say he's a friend, nor an acquaintance. I will say it was surreal and surprisingly normal to have a guy who's done what he's done and been where he's been standing in front of me. Intimidating? Check. Larger biceps? Check.

Love this guys heart though. I've glanced over his biography, Touchdown Alexander; have heard him share, and got to joke with him for a few minutes today. From what I've seen and heard, the guy is leveraging his influence to really make a difference in people's lives. I have to admit, success scares me. I have no expectation nor motivation to reach celebrity status, but success has historically been a real way of derailing what God has planned for an individual or society. Why? We confuse God-given anointing as our own. Pretty soon, it becomes more of me, less of Him. Such a common pattern in history, isn't it?

R.T. Kendall wrote in his book, Yesterday's Man: "A person with a tremendous anointing yesterday can continue to see the momentum of that anointing continuing to manifest itself. He or she may hastily conclude that 'the anointing is still with us' when it is but the momentum of yesterday's anointing. If I do not experience a fresh anointing every day, it is only a matter of time before I become yesterday's man."