You Are Responsible

Looking closely at the mirror clearly reveals who is responsible for the kind of life you live right now - yes that’s you! Your behaviour, relationship, wealth, health, attitudes, debt, income, e.t.c are all created by you. Though it is said that external factors determine the way you live your live, the truth is that you and only you are in total control of the quality of life you live. Now is the time to sit down and take a stock of all you have created in your life and decide what is working and what is not. 

Of a truth, there are lots of good things happening in your life such as your income level, your children, your job, your sponse, your grades, e.t.c. Yes, congratulate yourself on these successes of yours made possible by God with you actively involved. Take a look also at all the things that are not working out so well. You then need to ask yourself these question, ‘What am I doing or not doing to create these ugly experience?’ You don’t need to blame any outside factor for the unhappiness you are experiencing. 

Once you discover and realise that you are the one in charge of the experiences you create, you’ll also realise that the power to un-create them and create any new experience you desire lies in you. Note: You must take total responsibility for bad and good times, failures and successes, unhappiness and happiness. The moment you stop blaming others or your environment, you can harness that energy and refocus it to create a far better situation for yourself. You also need to stop complaining. 

Take a careful look at what you are complaining about - it, you’ll observe that it is something you can do something about. STOP COMPLAINING! Complaints ‘eat up’ your energy. Embarking on a change to positively alter your situation might be difficult. It might imply that you need to put in more effort, money and time. It could also mean that someone gets offended about it! The end justifies the means. Face the incontrovertible fact that you can do something about your present situation. People who make it in life take 100% responsibility for their thoughts, actions, the images they visualize, the kind of company they keep and a whole lot more. 

They don’t sit down there whining and complaining about their situations. Once they sit down to evaluate their lives and discover changes need to be made, they go ahead with it. They face head-on, the uncomfortable and plunge into risks so that they can create the kind of life they want to live…they don’t sympathize with themselves. 

Taking responsibility for your life implies three things; - Believing that you are responsible for all that happens to you - Paying close attention to yourself, your attitudes and the experiences you face in life - Facing the truth and dealing with whatever is not working in your life.

Conclusively, you must be willing to change your behaviour in order to experience a different outcome. It is insanity to keep doing the same thing over and over again and thereafter experiencing a different or better result. Commit to taking 100% responsibility for all that happens to you in life.

Salvation: The Restored Hope

In the beginning, God created man to serve Him - His creator. In the beginning, God created man to live a life of comfort, free from stress and distress. In the beginning, God gave man the opportunity to be what He (God) wanted him to be. In the beginning, God made available everything man needed at his disposal. In the beginning, God gave you the right to be what He had destined you to be.

Man was however deprived of that right at the fall in the Garden of Eden. Thus, you and I were stripped of our divine rights. Adam at the beginning also lost his divine inheritance, so also have you and I lost it. Could man ever regain his right to his inheritance? Would man live to be what he had been destined to be? So also you ask, can I ever be what I know I should be? Will I ever fulfill my destiny?

Salvation, yes salvation! Salvation brought renewed hope. Salvation gave back to man the life he lost at the beginning. It brought about a new beginning. Salvation became the genesis of mankind; a new foundation laid! Salvation is THE ONLY KEY TO FULFILLING YOUR DESTINY!

Your life only begins at salvation. Your life is renewed and handed the baton of hope and glory when you accept the sacrifice wrought by JESUS CHRIST, the Son of God who started another genesis of hope for you and I. Friend, your life hasn’t begun at all. It only begins when you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. Why not allow him into your life you so much crave for?

When you wander aimlessly through life, you will still go back to God your creator after death with detailed explanation of how you spent or invested the precious life He gave you here on earth. Whatsoever it is you do now – don’t think it will ever be forgotten. There’s a book of records kept in heaven about your every action. More importantly, an angel accompanies you every time, always writing down in details all you do at every point in time. So, nothing you do is hidden.

When you appear before God, what will be the account you will give to Him? The ball is in your court. Will you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? THE TIME IS NOW!

THE JOY OF SETBACKS

Sometimes in life, we come across potholes, obstacles, challenges that seem so overwhelming and threatening to veer us off the path of our vision and goals. We tend to give up and throw in the towel. We lose focus, we are destabilized, we are disoriented, we are confused and ultimately down tool on our dreams.

However, setbacks are part of life. They are meant to serve as checks and balances to see where we have gone wrong. Setbacks help us to re-strategize, re-focus and re-double our efforts in order to move forward. Setbacks are not meant to set us back, they are meant to serve as springboards for re-launch of our dreams and visions.

Anyone who does not experience setbacks in life can never understand or feel the joy of conquest.

Setbacks are necessary, they are important and useful to the realization of our dreams in life. The major thing we have to do is to ensure we 'imbibe' the right attitude. Setbacks can be seen by different people in different ways due to each person's 'frame of reference' comprising experiences, culture, religion, personal opinion and the likes.

Whatever your frame of reference, setbacks can either make or mar your progress in life. You however have the power to decide what you make out of every setback.

The ball is in your court!

The Yearnings of God

God yearns that man will live in a better world – a world devoid of hunger, strife, envy, poverty, restlessness, anger, bitterness, commotion, arguments and hatred.

Look at your own personal world now. Isn’t it filled with the above mentioned things? Is your world not reflecting the things that God does not want? Is your world radiating the glory of God? Is your world fulfilling the dictates of God? If it isn’t, what could be the reason?

My beloved, God yearns above all things that you live in a peaceful world created by your acts and attitudes. A world created by the positive confession of your mouth, a world inhabited by your graceful conversations, a world devoid of deceit and animosity towards fellow human beings, a world of love towards all. That’s the world God wants you to create by yourself.

This type of world is however impossible without the saving Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and your conscious effort to fulfil God’s yearnings. What will your own world turn out to be in the future? A world of strife or peace, poverty or prosperity, deceit or faithfulness, anger or patience?

God desires that you fulfil the yearnings of His heart. Will you obey or continue to live in your world of confusion? God expects you to make a major decision today by living to create a world He desires you to create for yourself and the coming generation.

Break Free From The Norm!

Accepting the status quo is a sign of defeat, a sign of laziness, a sign of backwardness and a sign of faithlessness. If Henry Ford has accepted the status quo, the six cylinder engine wouldn’t have been invented. The ‘status quo’ is an embargo enforcer, a yoke, a burden, a limitation upon the thoughts and actions of anyone who is caught in its web.

Many learned/educated people can limit your as a person – they quote relevant theories, experiments and conclusions backing up the fact that what you intend doing cannot be done. If you listen to them, you are done for! No man or woman is born limited – we are all limitless. Your own wits end might be the beginning of someone else’s knowledge.

I see myself as limitless – someone who has the ability to do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me. I can do anything as long as I put my heart to learn how to do it. I can achieve anything I desire once I set my heart to do it.

My friend, it is time for you to break free from the norm, from the limitations of others, from the restricting voices of others, from the limiting expectations of the society (family, friends, colleagues, superiors, etc) you find yourself in.

Stand up and break free from the NORM!