Dear Friend,
How are you today? I write this out of passion for people
going through trials, challenges and downtime.
I tell people I see no crime in falling but it’s only a
crime when you fall and refuse to rise again. Proverbs 24:16 says, “For a
righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by
calamity”. What are you going through that seem like the end of the world to
you? Are you disappointed or heartbroken? Whatever it is you are going through
is just a test.
I have come to a realization that the experiences, tests,
trials and challenges we face are the examinations and tests we write for our
next phase in life. The experiences we’ve had in life are meant to shape us and
not break us.
Life is governed by times and seasons, and every season
comes with a lesson. The dry season teaches us to harvest and store up the
barns while the raining season teaches us to come out to sow. The fact that the
season is dry means it’s time to gather all the knowledge you can so as to have
something to deliver in the raining days… remember you cannot give what you
don’t have.
Discover your potential and let this season bring out the
best in you. If you don’t discover your potential by yourself now, you will
have to pay someone to help you discover it and it might end up in hard labor.
Even if you have to be paid by anyone to work for them, let it be based on your
self-discovery and not been enslaved after helping you to discover your
potentials. Go for courses in line with your discovery and master the art.
That’s the only way the right value for your discovery can be paid. The fact Is
that your ability to earn money, which has taken you all your life to develop
is the most valuable thing you have from an employer’s perspective.
Please don’t wallow in your pain and shame. Stop looking for
a pity party around. God has placed the right configurations to make you great
within you. I once asked a friend a question; did God create anyone without a
brain? No! But there are a lot of people
with brains but don’t use it. They live a parasitic life forgetting that their
hosts or people they depend on don’t have more than one head.
Lastly, discover God’s purpose for your life. I once heard
from Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo that “there’s nothing as good and rewarding as
being at the center point of God’s purpose for your life”. Find purpose, no
matter how good a fish dazzles in the water, it can never be at its best
overland. When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. Life becomes easier
when it is lived in line with purpose.
I pray as we live each day, God will help us to discover our
purpose and send us strategic alliances to fructify our purpose on earth.
