MASTERPIECE

REMEMBER YOUR DESTINY, FOCUS ON YOUR ORIGIN

You and I are God’s original masterpiece. We were created geniuses, holy and brilliant. This is our origin and it is our destiny. We are made for God and we will go back to Him if we live excellently. To live a Holy life is not to spend the whole of your life’s hours on your knees. It is more than that. It includes that surely but it must go beyond that. Doing well in your business, in your studies, performing brilliantly and whatever you do and touch and feeling awesomely satisfied is the mark of Holiness.

However, the quality of your life is a sum total of the quality of your thoughts, of yourself and of life. John Mason reminds us that no life is a coincidence. It is a reflection. Most of our problems are out own making, a result of our own low quality thoughts. If you could beat up the person most responsible for your problems, you would not have teeth. We all admire the people who have succeeded and who have gone through great problems and have come through alive. However, when problems come our way, we give up, become angry and blame God while playing the victim. We can change this by seeing problems as challenges to purify us as gold is. It is a matter of changing the way we think and as Christians, the way we believe. Faith is walking everyday believing that everything will be alright. Louis XIV once said, ‘there is little that can withstand a man/woman who can conquer himself/herself.’ So, conquer those feelings of fear, of smallness, of insignificance or they are going to cost your life, literally. Act against your fear, not in agreement with it. Walk in faith and not in fear.

Stewart Johnson was right when he said, ‘Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.’

Believe in you God and in yourself. One without the other won’t work. If you doubt yourself, you doubt God’s creative genius and vice versa. ‘A person who doubts himself is like a man who enlists in the ranks of his enemy and bears arms against himself. Alexandre Dumas wisely says. You may and you can succeed even if nobody believes in, be they parents or friends, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself and your potential.