ENGLISH Dante Gebel #820 | Stupidity also wears Prada

When we confuse our desires with “the calling,” we are doomed to fatigue, discouragement, loss of joy, and a feeling of inadequacy. We know we are doing something stupid, but we disguise it as “God told me”, or “God called me”. We look in the mirror, we see a beautiful suit and we think that we are ready to fulfill our dream. This happened to Joseph, who, although he wore Prada, did not have the character to sustain the blessing. Only when he understood what life was like without the tunic, Joseph was able to fulfill his dream, reach the prophecy and reach the throne. The moment he recovered his relationship with his father, he recovered everything lost!

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foreign

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with a small story

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a man presents himself at the doors of

heaven and an angel asks him

did you do anything

with enough Merit to come into heaven

obviously it’s a joke you don’t you

don’t go into heaven through Merit but

in this story The Angel asks what good

did you do to be able to enter into

heaven and the gentleman says well of

course I did good

one day I was driving in my vehicle and

I saw

Acres of motorcycle bikers they had

tattoos they had piercings and they were

bothering a young woman and I was at the

red light I couldn’t help it I got out

of my car and I said you either leave

her alone or you’re going to have

problems with me and the biker said

don’t get involved go on with your life

but I couldn’t help it so I went up to

the leader of the bikers I slapped him

across the face

and I kicked his bike over I ripped the

ring out of his nose and I said you

either leave her alone or you’ll have

problems with me and the angel was

impressed and he said when did this

happen and the gentleman said well just

a couple minutes ago

laughs

I’m not going to explain it because if I

so there’s a great difference

between faith and stubbornness

the line between do not fear and don’t

be stupid

tends to be very fine and sometimes it

can take us an entire lifetime to be

able to discern or identify that line

right you say I shouldn’t fear I can do

it all through Christ against me

strength but sometimes we go beyond the

line of common sense I say this because

discerning

what God is calling us to

and deciding if what we’re doing is

because God asked us for it or if we’re

doing it by our own well that’s one of

the challenges of self-exploration one

of the greatest challenges that a human

being can face if what I’m doing now if

What I’m Living if what I’m I’m

initiating is it coming from God or did

it just occur to me I always say that

a calling you’re calling is I don’t want

to say difficult but it’s it’s not easy

to discover

you have to be crudely sincere about

your own talents

be sincere about your own limitations

say this isn’t for me God didn’t call me

to do this so you have to be willing to

ask yourself questions in life

ask yourself difficult questions and

then be able to live with those answers

and that’s difficult say what am I good

at what am I not good at what are my

limitations and I call that discerning

your true calling from God for our lives

for what we have to do it’s being

willing to sometimes allow your personal

dreams to die

and we say well why I’d like to do this

yeah but maybe that’s not what God is

calling us to do

for our assignment in this life

even if we like it a lot but on certain

occasions us Christians call it

a calling from God a feeling from God

something that maybe we like to do is it

wrong no but calling it God’s calling we

give it a a mystical tint or an epiphany

that it doesn’t deserve it sometimes

we’re just in love with something that

we want to do and I insist it’s not

wrong

but we’re just in love with an image or

a photograph a picture there are people

that get married because they’re in love

with their wedding picture they’re women

girls that get married because they say

I always saw myself wearing the wedding

dress that my grandmother gave me

she wore it back in 1942 and now the

dress is all yellow but she still wants

to wear it and so she’s in love with

with the image not not the marriage or

the life or even the gentleman

that she’ll

interlace her life with for the rest of

of her existence

people say that’s my calling no

receiving a calling from God isn’t the

same as dedicating yourself or your life

to what you dreamed of or fulfilling a

fantasy that we have

God Called Moses and said Moses present

yourself before the Pharaoh he’s the

most powerful man on all the Earth and

tell him that he has to set his his

labor force free his Workforce free to

worship a God that he doesn’t know that

he doesn’t believe in and if that

weren’t enough

convince a timid and stubborn people

that they have to follow you into the

into the desert that’s your calling and

Moses said Lord here I am send Aaron

then God calls Jonah

and says go to Nineveh

the most corrupt violent city in the

world

until its inhabitants

to decide they either repent or die and

Jonah says what time is The Big Fish

going to come by

that’s going in the opposite way and

then God calls Jeremiah

to preach to a people that didn’t want

to hear him

and scripture says that Jeremiah cried

so much

that since that moment he was known as

the sobbing Prophet how would you like

to have that title

oh who are you oh well I’m the uh I’m

the crybaby Pastor or the crybaby

prophet God calls Abraham to abandon his

home he calls Gideon to lead an army ask

her to stop a genocide Mary to give

birth to the Messiah and their answers

were never oh yes that was my lifelong

dream like I said a few months ago I

don’t imagine Mary at the age of 15 an

adolescent hearing you’re going to be

left pregnant by the Holy Spirit oh yes

that was my dream as a little girl I

always wanted to be impregnated by the

Holy Spirit no there’s not a single

person that said that was my dream my

entire life I imagined myself walking

through the desert with four million

rebellious people

and in these years I’ve learned that if

the task that God is assigning me to

if it’s something that I could manage

through my own strength or if that’s if

it’s at the height of what I could do

then most likely that’s not coming from

God because why would I need God if I

can do it on my own

when I go to genuine callings from God

they’re the sort of tasks that God calls

us to beyond what man can do alone God

doesn’t call Moses

to Pastor a few sheep

I’ll go

he doesn’t tell Gideon

to just fight against 300 men no it’s

against thousands so if God isn’t in the

equation then man can’t do it alone I

once heard a private conversation

between a pastor and one of his closest

leaders

don’t let this get out of here just

let’s keep it between us it just so

happens that this close leader tells us

Pastor that God called him and that he

wants to be an independent pastor and so

the pastor asked him

and what would you truly like to do

as a pastor of your own congregation so

in other words

what do you think you’d do there that

you’re not already doing here and the

young man said well I’m going to preach

I’m going to to save Souls I’m going to

evangelize and help the poor and the

pastor asked

yeah but isn’t that what you’re doing

now and the leader said yeah but if I do

it for my own congregation I don’t have

to report to anyone people will see me

everywhere my picture will be visible

if I stay here I’ll always be condemned

to not being the number one pastor and

so the Pastor said well you’re right but

I fear you don’t have a Divine calling

but what you have what you have is a

desire to see your own picture which

isn’t wrong but you should say I feel

like seeing myself in pictures and not

giving it the title or label

it’s God’s calling and obviously the

gentleman left upset

that he wouldn’t be allowed to grow

and this happens in all institutions all

organizations when we confuse our desire

to do something with a calling and so

then that’s where the fatigue

or despair comes the lack of energy the

loss of Joy a feeling of not being

capable and you become filled with

bitterness you say I wanted to hear God

I thought he was speaking with me I

thought he sent me I remember when I was

a child

I heard

the head of household

say I’m going to abandon my job at the

factory and I’m going to live a life of

Faith like I had eight kids

and he decided to live by faith logical

thing is that obviously all the kids

were dying of hunger two months later

and he was going door to door to see who

would give him food and he would say no

but God called me to live by faith but

God is never going to do something that

goes against common sense

that makes us travel on the rails of

rails of stupidity that’s not faith

that’s not believing God and getting off

of the boat

that’s simply just not recognizing that

maybe this man didn’t want to work

anymore maybe he just wanted to quit

maybe he wanted to wake up Monday

mornings at 11AM without being bothered

by anyone but it’s more glamorous it’s

nicer to say oh God is asking me to quit

God is asking me to live by faith

that sounds nice right it’s almost like

saying God called you to kill your

mother-in-law he’s not going to ask you

for that even if you want it more than

anything

and that’s one of the reasons

psychologists coined the term the

Imposter syndrome it’s people who try to

live an entire life trying to mass their

insecurity their low self-esteem in the

case of this man

he didn’t want to do something different

than what he was already doing he just

wanted his face his face

in all the pictures and that syndrome

is wanting to be the head of Iran

instead of the tale of a lion there are

people that prefer to be the number 10.

in the neighborhood soccer club instead

of being a benchwarmer for PSG there are

players that say they called me from

Europe where are you going Barca

Messi had to spend time on the bench

Ronaldo

had to spend time

on the bench I’m talking about soccer

for those that don’t know for those that

just watch baseball these are soccer

players Ronaldo

had to spend months on the bench

but he was in a European Club he was in

the big leagues big leagues and that’s

better than just playing at a small club

in Portugal but there are people that

say no in Portugal and Buenos Aires and

Caracas in Mexico I’m the number 10. the

other day we played a game and we won

32-11

you know those those games where it’s in

married men against single men and you

see a bunch of fat men running around

the fat man shoots and the fat goalie

sees the ball rolling and he says you

know what maybe next time I’ll dive but

there are people that like being a part

of that

more so than playing in the big leagues

but may God free us

from that narrowing of the vein but we

all have these challenges

a friend of mine

whose father is a very well recognized

Minister decided

that he had to take over his father’s

Ministry he had to fill his father’s

shoes he had to be the new pastor

because his father was already elderly

nobody pressured him

I doubt God called them but since his

father left him that Legacy and opened

the doors

that anyone else would have shot on him

I’m not

accusing him of nepotism I’m just saying

was easier than

anyone else rising to that

position

and so as he took over this position

he became bitter

because you realize that just because he

had the same last name it doesn’t

necessarily mean that he would take over

the ministry

just because your father’s an architect

or a pastor doesn’t mean you have to

follow in the same footsteps

it’s easy to say oh my children are

taking over the pulpit because they saw

me preaching when they were young

maybe they don’t have that calling maybe

the child wants to have another

profession

what comes to mind is a very insecure

woman

who believes that if she has success as

a singer and a prophet she’ll have the

attention and the affection of the

people

and she clings on to that dream

even though there’s

evidence that she wasn’t born to be a

singer

she’s like Shrek when he sings and the

birds explode

God didn’t give her that gift

but she clings on to that dream

and anytime someone tries to tell her

that she’s making a mistake

it brings her such pain because she

feels that she’s being rejected that

they don’t believe in her calling that

they want to step on her

so when we don’t differentiate our

personal desires with God’s authentic

calling reality becomes our worst enemy

and we begin to close our eyes to the

indications

that are telling us that maybe we’re

trying to do something that we weren’t

called to do

or what’s even worse

for those

of us that weren’t gifted there are

those that don’t have the gift of

ministering

does that mean

if they’re going to be a disaster

as far as ministering no they maybe they

just need somebody to help them out with

that or there are those that weren’t

gifted with being able to manage their

money or budget

there are people that have a vision and

have have a passion but they don’t know

how to express it

and continuing to insist that you have

that gift it’s just condemning yourself

to to being someone you’re not and

that’s what it is to be an imposter so

if you have the courage to understand

your limitations and accept them say

this is what I’m good at this is what

I’m not good at then we experiment

freedom

being able to say this is what I’m good

at and this is what I’ll never be good

at that’s part of wisdom knowing What

You Won’t Do

there are some limitations that I have

that don’t bother me too much because I

don’t care if I’m not good at being a

handyman I know I’m a disaster at that I

know I can’t put a nail in the wall

because I’ll probably pierce it through

my finger

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for me hell is going to look like Home

Depot

that’s what hell looks like to me

if you mess up in life then Satan will

say come follow me to Home Depot this is

your Hill

I’m also terrible at math

I always needed good accountants around

me because numbers bore me

the perfect logic of of math and and

chemistry and physics they always seemed

like demonic subjects

but I also have other limitations that

do hurt me

and they hurt me because their dreams

that had to die

and I remember my most disappointing

failures I always thought

that those that were born with the great

gift of singing well

and being able to live off of that gift

they’re very privileged people I see

that singers travel around the world and

they sing the same old Eternal songs

like Luis Miguel

they come back to the same city

and they sell out every Arena and they

sing about that same girl in the blue

bikini again and again and they’re paid

a fortune for that and as they grow

older all they have to do is is lower

the key of the song a little bit because

by Divine Providence

the crowd is also growing older with

them

the only thing that changes is the size

of the panties that are thrown onto the

stage

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before they were tiny Thorns but now

they’re circus tents

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right

and the Pumas it’s covered under a tent

not knowing what happened

and I know

that I can more or less remain in tune

I’d like it but I never had the gift of

being able to make that my profession

even when I was younger and more foolish

I recorded a few CDs

don’t look for them because I made them

disappear from off the market

they weren’t CDs actually they were

cassettes

obviously no one in their right mind

bought them no one

and the reason for my failure

an inheritor from Jose Luis Rodriguez it

wasn’t a lack of connection to the lack

of study it’s just that I was fighting

against my own limitations

I had to learn through pain who I am and

who I’ll never be

and sometimes we cling on to dreams that

don’t come from God

and we like it and it’s not wrong

but that’s not what we were born to do

we’ve all had gifts maybe in our

childhood

that ended up becoming just just

childhood fantasies

remember when you used to play the

recorder in grade school

remember oh to Joy

and your mother would say oh how

beautiful

I’m sorry that I have to give you this

news but

that record label is never going to call

you in your life

never

we want you to play the Ode to Joy and

release it as a great success no no

they’ll never call you to say that so at

a certain moment we have to stop going

into that fantasy to be able to embrace

the calling that God has given us

so I’ve come to understand that God’s

dreams are better than any dream we can

dream of for ourselves

the destiny that God has for us is much

greater than anything that we can

imagine for ourselves

I imagine that the nicest thing that

could happen to me would to become a

singer but I never imagined that the

Lord would lend me the ears of millions

of people for me to transmit his message

nowadays I would never exchange what

he’s given me for what I wanted back

then that’s why it’s vital for you to

realize at the right time that

inheriting a tunic of colors doesn’t

mean that we’re ready

because stupidity also dresses in

expensive clothing

Joseph I’m speaking of of the biblical

Joseph or Prada

his father gave him a designer suit some

of you already know the story

giving your child a designer suit meant

that he was the favorite

he was the preferred child Joseph never

had to ask his father if he loved him

because Joseph

was the son that his father bragged

about

I can imagine Joseph staying up late

playing video games all day working less

Jacob his father

exuded favoritism to Joseph

and when Joseph received that designer

suit the Bible says that his father gave

him a tunic of colors

his all his brothers had to go shop at

Ross on Tuesdays

for seniors

obviously you can’t dress all 12 of your

children

and colorful tunics on a budget but if

we were talking about Joseph

Jacob would spend whatever Joseph could

say dad buy me Prada and he would buy

him Prada and in those days clothing

was a sign of status and Joseph had a

sue a tunic that made him special

and he also believes it’s part of his

calling that he’s a special man but

Joseph still doesn’t know that a calling

a calling isn’t determined by clothing

by favoritism by favor by Grace but by

character

because you can sometimes get easily

excited with God’s gifts but you have no

idea the strength you need to be able to

carry on with that gift and sustain it

and maintain it without God’s character

you don’t get far

without God’s character we can’t sustain

nor enjoy the blessing that’s why there

are people that can’t Prosper

financially

I’m sorry if there’s someone here that

feels identified with this but

God it might always have you with what’s

just enough because your character isn’t

ready

it hasn’t been molded to be able to

manage a fortune or more money there are

people that as soon as they come on come

upon or come across more money they

leave the church they leave the ministry

and God knows that God knows that there

are people that don’t have the character

to sustain a blessing but sometimes

using that tunic of favoritism can

become a problem when we feel like the

spoiled child will need life or God to

sometimes give us a few good blows

a few good punches to know that we can’t

go through life always stressed in a

colorful tunic and of course I’m

speaking in metaphorical terms

we can grow

thinking that we’re

the largest Bunch harvesting Bunch we

might think that we’re the drain at the

bottom of the ocean or the last

Coca-Cola in the desert and so when

someone more intelligent when someone

more anointed more attractive arrives

they move the floor beneath us

because we’re insecure

sometimes we want to be the only people

wearing Prada

and beneath that Designer Sue

sometimes we hide the fear of losing our

favorable position because not only did

Joseph just have a colorful tunic you

also had great dreams about his Destiny

and dreams in the in Joseph’s times

symbolize something prophetic they were

impactful because they spoke of Joseph’s

future and we could think well Joseph

receives those dreams

and he has Common Sense he shuts his

mouth

he doesn’t share

but no this guy doesn’t have common

sense he gathers his brothers that

already envied him

because they dressed with clothing from

Ross and Joseph of course was wearing

Prada

they didn’t have his special tunic they

already hated him

but Joseph told them his dream they said

hey guys listen up I had a dream that

there was a field and each person had

their Bunch their harvesting Bunch but

my harvesting Bunch was lifted higher

than all of yours and you all gathered

around my harvesting Munch and you knelt

before me and so that means that one day

I’m going to govern

over you I’m going to govern and you’ll

submit to me you’ll submit to me

expressing obedience to my authority

isn’t that isn’t that great aren’t you

happy for me

why don’t we role play a little bit just

to practice come on practice kneel

before me

what the heck is that this is worse than

an Argentinian just coming back from the

World Cup no one could put up with them

and the author leaves

his brothers answer is very clear

and they hated him more due to the

dreams that he shared with him this is

an Envy

of Brothers

just because Joseph

should dream that he shouldn’t have

now Joseph will go on to do great things

he’ll be famous he’ll make his father

proud

and he begins to promote how great his

life will become and that’s where we

discover that stupidity

can also dress and Gucci your Prada no

Hugo Boss but you know all the other

luxury Brands

Joseph’s father had given him a gift and

our father also gives us gifts

throughout our development

but Joseph commits a great mistake

finds his indent his identity

in the gift that identified him as the

favorite child instead of the

relationship that he should have had

with his father that made him the

favorite

sometimes the gift

is what begins to give us our identity

and as a result you

and that gift

sometimes you can commit the mistake of

being trapped in the gift that God gave

and so if I’m serving God

I feel I feel like God loves me for some

reason if I have to sit down and not

serve I feel that God’s grace and love

has left me no

that’s why you can’t take identity of

what you do instead of who you are it’s

frightening to see people leaving one

congregation to go to another because

there they’ll have another position or

they’ll

be able to do something and I’m not

saying it’s wrong to have the desire to

serve but what I’m saying is that when

the motivation is to take identity from

what I do in place of the relationship I

have with my father then I’ll end up

losing the gift because you can identify

or assign your identity to your ministry

or your service in place of finding

identity in the god that we serve I

don’t know if you’re following me you’re

looking at me with weird faces

when you take identity of what you do

you run the risk of losing the gift so I

want to clarify something important

Joseph’s father gave him a gift

it wasn’t his father who took it away

Joseph lost his tunic through his own

actions he lost it because he became

prideful of what it represented

when God gives us gifts he never takes

them away the Bible says that God’s

calling is irrevocable

God’s calling and God’s gifts are

irrevocable God doesn’t take away your

gift that doesn’t mean that you’re going

to be saved but that just means he won’t

take your gift I once knew a prophet

that left the church and became a witch

and the same gift that she had to

prophesy she now used it as a witch but

that doesn’t mean that she had Christ in

her heart

maybe if I never preach again I might

have the same dialect the same the same

proficient Proficiency in speaking

how many people have a marvelous gift

from God

but can’t use it or misuse it because

their heart isn’t correct

they use it wrong because their heart

isn’t aligned with God Joseph when he

received the colorful tunic from his

father he was 17 years old

but he was arrogant petulant

prideful

and some versions say that he was

Argentinian I don’t believe it I think

he was more maybe half Argent maybe half

Salvadorian half Mexican

and the Bible says

that Joseph always had a bad report from

his brothers

now I’m not saying that his siblings

were good guys no maybe they were mean

but him always bringing a bad report

from his brothers reveals that Joseph

thought of himself as someone qualified

to be able to make this judgment

every time you judge someone else’s

Behavior

that reveals a prideful attitude on our

behalf God says you have to change and

you say yeah yeah but look at this guy

he’s worse than I am

now why would God give such a big dream

to a 17 year old boy

why didn’t he wait for him to be a

little older a little more wise a little

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