Sometimes
I gaze through life looking through the eyes of a saint and discover quite a
number of things that are possibly hidden from the eyes of many people and as a
result, I have discovered that he who fails to look intently at happenings in and
around his or her life would only continue to solve problems: moving in cycles
and circles without really living a life that is full of purpose and vitality.
More often than not, I see a lot of people continuously go through life solving
the same challenges and problems they had faced previously. This ought not to
be because in a normal scenario, we should be learning from our experiences but
when we see anyone unable to surmount that particular problem besetting them
over and over again then, it is a sad contradiction. It is my opinion that if
this contradiction is overlooked, it would make life very unbearable (bitter)
for such persons.
The
inability of people to take responsibility for their lives has made it
difficult for them to forge ahead in life. People for example, would continue
to give you a call me back on phone so that you can call them whenever you see
it. They would never call you but has become skilled in flashing and sending call
me back. These people fail to realize that they are only writing a bad history
for themselves in the hearts of the people they continuously flash or send a
call me back. In fact, you need to guess the number of times these people howl
curses on these people who has become perpetual flashers and call me back
senders. Yes, I understand that once a while, somebody can run out of credit
and genuinely give you a flash or call me back. I am not talking about these
types of people (it happens) but I am concerned about those whose profession
has become flashing and sending call me back. These people believe that it is
those they are flashing that have enough credit and should call them; they
think they are the only special people in the world and therefore, should be
called but they would never call others. By the way, everybody is special in
his or her own way but being a specialist in flashing and sending call me back
is not cool.
It
is sequel to this particular belief in many people that I want to bring to you
that one fact everybody needs to know to overcome the storms of life as they
forge their way through life’s endeavors. It is the understanding of this particular
fact that will make people become more appreciative of others because, there
are a lot of persons who never appreciate anyone. You send a sum of money to them and their
reply is usually, “Is this the only money you can send to me.” They have never
sent anything (money, clothes, etc.) to anybody but they can never appreciate
anyone for sending something to them. They feel that they are the only
important people in the world and as such should only be the ones receiving.
Now, it is good for everybody to treat people specially because, if you treat
people poorly or badly; you would also be treated poorly: for one of the laws
of nature says that whatever a man sows, that he shall reap. Therefore, do good
and you shall receive good. Don’t come to that point where you only expect
people to sow (give) into your life when you have never sown (given) into other
people.
It
is a common practice to expect good to come to you but it will not come if you
have not played your part and that is, doing well to others. While we recognize
the fact that good can come to anybody at any point in time; it is my
admonition that you go through life without looking up to men (because, they
will fail you). They fail you because, they are humans; they have problems to solve
themselves and also because, humanity is selfish. It becomes hard for them to
solve your problems at the total neglect of their own problems. I mean, they
have school fees to pay, families to feed, one business project or the other to
execute, etc., and if you expect them to leave their comfort to take care of yours
then, you must be mistaking or joking to say the least. I know of
philanthropist and selfless individuals who could go to greater depths to help
people but they can only do as much as they could afford or are capable of
doing. It is therefore, only God that never fails anyone thus, look up to God
more and less on men for help, for sustenance, and for protection. I have seen
some strange workings of God: how He turned a shepherd of sheep and cattle into
a shepherd of princes and turned a slave into the second in command over an
entire nation. He has not changed, he is still changing and transforming lives
today and if you believe and trust him; He will come to your help in Jesus Name.
Quit
trusting in man as a whole because, what you will get is disappointments
(because, that is the nature of man). I cannot begin to tell you the countless
number of women whose heart has being broken by men and this also applies to women
who have broken men’s heart. They were in a relationship and saw a man that was
richer and more handsome than their current man and thus, they desert the man.
They fail to realize that the rich man they are seeing was once poor: only a
hand full of humanity was born to wealth and stardom; many work themselves through
firm and fortune but it is not usually easy. It comes through hard work and
dedication, this is while I pity those that refuse to work hard to earn a
living for themselves and think that deliverance would come to them. They fail
to realize that nobody who is legitimately rich and wealthy arrived there
through laziness but hard work and dedication. Therefore, I finally submit to
you that the one fact everybody needs to know to overcome the storms of life is
“having the knowledge and understanding that everybody in life has one problem
or the other they are going through (experiencing).”
Please,
let us not give up on our quest to achieve greatness in life because, success
will surely come if we faint not. I have heard of great men who never gave up
and as such achieved their goal. People like Abraham Lincoln who contested five
times before he became the president of the United States of America; Major
General Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) also contested three times (in 2003, 2007,
2011) before he became a civilian president of Nigeria in 2014 till date. I
don’t want to bother you with stories of great inventors such as Thomas Edison
who invented the electric bulb; it is told that he tried for nine hundred and
ninety nine times before one more try (1000th) gave him what he
wanted. What about the story of Alexander Graham Bell who invented the
Telephone. It is said that a man named, Mr. Phillip Reis was the first to
practically build the Telephone. There was just one thing needed for Mr. Reis
to have done for the Telephone to be his invention and that was to adjust the
screw by a quarter of a turn but he became tired of trying and the rest is
history. Sometime later, Alexander Graham Bell worked on Reis’s work and
invented the Telephone and even though they fought against him saying that it
was Mr. Reiss’s invention; the court upheld Alexander Graham Bell as the
inventor saying that “to follow Reis is failure, but to follow Bell is
success.” This is a vivid example of someone who gave up and one who refused to
give up and we saw who was celebrated at last.
Therefore,
quit looking unto men (who have problems themselves) and look within (to
discover those hidden talents and work on them); trust God and work hard and
you will succeed in Jesus Name.
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