The Panting

He pats the leaves in jungle. The wound in his chest acing, and blood all over his face. His legs begin to feel numb and the fear grips him again. They could be any where and yet he is without the strength to keep the race on. His sight is getting blurred and the sun is still miles away. He takes the step and falls upon a sharp tree trunk, the blood is uncontrollable. Then in that moment as he opens his mouth to scream he hears them closer…

Many times our lives are like this picture. We are not with the knowledge of the past or the future. The story can simply take any direction and it will remain the story of our lives. We look at what is around us and it seems like some bad guys are after us and that the sun is far away. It’s a race through the jungle and we are the only victims with no help. If that applies to you just know that you are not alone.

But every jungle has its limits; every night has the sun at the end. When we feel like giving up we should realize that we are giving ourselves up for supper to those many things that have for so long wanted to devour us. The time to quit is never at hand, we only choose to bring it close, and actually we impose it upon ourselves. Today you may seem confused with no direction and you think it is time to throw the towel in but like the story at the beginning we don’t know what may happen if we just took two more steps. What you don’t know is that the sounds that man heard were sounds of the people assigned to help him.

Some times we need to return to the point of our beginnings and regain our strength. There are other times when we need to push a little harder. The person that quits is left with himself to haunt, he is left with nothing to show of his efforts. When the last day arrives, we have to be ready to be identified by our works. The times I find myself wondering if it is time to quit, I ask myself whether the work I set out to do is complete.
When I can satisfy my conscience that it is complete, I am happy to quit and that is not quitting, that is retiring from a complete work.

We were not meant to be incomplete in our works and nature, we were meant to be complete in all of them. This completeness we can only taste if we keep the work in mind and when we keep the nature of that complete work in mind. The people that easily quit did not have the complete picture in mind right from the beginning. The person that sets goals has a clear picture of where they have set out to do.

So the most important thing in what we set out to do is a clear plan. It may not set all the details out but it surely helps one know their road and where it is supposed to lead. There is importance in planning and we need to take the task up daily. Plan for the day, the month, the meeting and all that. We need to realise that God is not mad at us for planning, the men of old planned there wars and God was part of the planning. Those were men whom the Spirit visited. Today He lives in us and He works in us. And like those men we need to take a stand, we need to move in this war fare. The majority of Christians live by chance , of course they call it liveing by faith. They remain affraid to aspire for any thing and when they do they only wish it could happen. Pushing their desires into a future they have taken no responsibility of today.

We need to wake up, the world we live in might be a fallen world but it has the things that we are here to influence. We cannot shun information, knowledge and think we are going to shine like we ought to. It is time we put a stop to all the surprise attacks that have caused insults to the body of Christ. Get knowledge improve yourselves in all aspects. It is time for us to embrace investment, saving, higher education and personal effort to get better. The Christian is not completely praying until they aspire to change this world.

The cahllenge of global warming will not be answeres by those people waiting for the Holy Spirit but by those that have teamed up with the Holy Spirit to find a solution through reseach and propaganda. We are the light of The World, but even the light ought to know how best to shine. Go do research on where to invest, know what we mean by rate of return and turn over, know what global warming is and what the political enviroment is or the economic one. All this will give you a picture of what your faith is up against and as you realise your responsibility in a fallen world, you will not help it but pray and read the word. You will realise how best to direst your prayer and what your faith ought to contain.

Dear friends, it is not only in Masters degrees, it is compound, know how to run a business, and NGO, a political campaign. Be informed but even better ,be ready to move because we are who make things happen here.And realise that the dreams you have are the dreams that can be achieved now when you realise that you are a partner with Christ in His reign. Be the King God paid so expensively to make you, winning you from the kingdom of darkness into in mervelous light. He is the Light shining in you so that you may shine in this world. Don't hide away, shine away.

Life was never designed to be gone through by accident. We are supposed to go through by design.