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.
