BE MORE REALISTIC TO THE REAL WORLD.
STOP PRETENDING AND BE MORE FOCUSED TO WHOM YOU ARE CREATED TO BE.
STOP PRETENDING AND BE MORE FOCUSED TO WHOM YOU ARE CREATED TO BE.
But I tell you today that it is the fake beliefs about who we are not in real life that causes many of us heart bleeding and much pains.
Stop, and look deeply into the kind of life and people you follow, you will know that all your days you have been busy pursuing a faked life.
Read carefully and be liberated.
STOP PURSUING SHADOWS
Man is busy on earth, laboring and acquiring what he cannot keep, but
the fundamental issues of life has he neglected.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to
behold the sun, but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet forget to remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.
All that cometh is
vanity. (Eccl 11:7-8).
Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life, while many people in this
world are dreaming to live your life.
A child in a farm sees a plane fly over his head and dreams to fly.
But the pilot in the plane sees the farmhouse
and dreams of returning home. That’s life! So, enjoy yours today.
We are living in a generation where men desire to be given money
without the zeal to know the sources of money.
It is said that one dollar
earned is better than the ten dollars gotten.
This is a generation where virtually all men are striving so hard pursuing
shadows that almost all men have become “professional shadow chaser”.
There
have been total misconstructions about the real things of life and their
shadows but the truth remains that every reality of life has a shadow part of
it side.
Which shadow are you pursuing?
The Apostles of Christ once pursued shadows, preferring to remain in
Jerusalem just for them to maintain their “close-contact-relationship”.
Until
Steven was tired they did not want to separate from each other. Remember the
instruction was for them to go “go to the world and preach the Gospel to all
Nations”. (Matt 28:19-20, Mark 16:15-16).
But then, when that great piercing “lightening” of persecution came
against them, they all took to their heels and that marked the beginning of the
real journey to their vision in life - a mandate from God.
What do you pursue and what should you pursue?
Don’t pursue ambition for it is only the shadow of vision!
Don’t pursue money for it is only the shadow of hard work!
Don’t pursue fame for it is only the shadow of diligence.
Don’t pursue position for it is only the shadow of integrity.
Don’t pursue salaries, wages, stipends, and pension for they are only
the shadows of the great wealth buried in you!
Don’t desire to secure a job which can be lost at anytime, rather
pursue to create jobs which will employ as many as possible and put their
visions through in life.
Live your real life. Stop fake living. Be more realistic.
It is disheartening how the youth and everyone are running away from
their responsibilities.
People who are only looking forward to be employed in
already made jobs.
We have been trapped in this mess for so long that we also
desire everything to be already made for us.
We desire our food, cloths,
language, job environment to be already made only for us to enjoy.
The only
thing left is for us to ensure our lives into the hands of others to live for
us while we rest in the grave.
Everyone is turning to the pursuit of shadows.
Why?
Pastors who are called for a primary purpose of preaching the gospel to
all nations, (Matt, 28 and Mark 16) have turned the visions of God into their
own ambition.
They are now preaching money to all nations not minding whether
the souls are saved or not.
They are not caring whether the multitudes they are
living in their pockets have any source of livelihood or not.
The preachers of
this generation have their conduit pipes streamed down into the pockets of
their congregation to fatten their bank accounts through establishing of
schools and other firms which should be targeted at alleviating the poor
standard of living.
Others engaging in one diabolic activity or the acquiring of powers to
perform magic in the name of miracles and the ability to convince people to
donate into their own pockets. This was the same error
that Jesus Christ corrected in the lives
of the Apostles who were sent to go and preach the Gospel only to come back
rejoicing, not because of the souls that was saved nor their names that was
written in God’s book of life; rather because demons were cast away and
miracles performed.
In response, Jesus told them to rejoice because of the
vision of God which was carried out and fetched them their names being written
in the book of life and not for the ambition of popularity in ministry which
flooded their mind (Luke 10:1-24).
The pursuit of shadow and frivolities of life leads to frustration,
disaster, shame, everlasting regret and unfulfilled vision in the life of man.
Still in the ministry! There are still many “Judas Iscariot” in the
house of God who are still looking for their victims, people whom they will
sell their conscience to enrich their “suicide pockets”.
Awake!
Stop pursuing shadows! Come to light.
Men have been so intoxicated with the wine of ambition that they seek
for every available means of catching the shadow called money; and can do anything
just to have some raps on their palms.
The ambitious state of man had turned
him into a ritual killer.
Killing those who are meant to celebrate them and
only leaving those who will make mockery of them behind.
So we hear some works
like: “be careful with that man before he changes your destiny.
Others embarking on robbery and fraud that they have turned the
government and the society into their enemies, several others are swayed out by
the taste of the “pea-nut” in their mouth that they don’t see the real food before
them.
If money is the secret of happiness, the rich should be dancing on the
street.
But only the poor kids do that.
The rich in our society has been blinded by the food on their table
that they don’t even recognize the presence of Lazarus who has humbly
brought the Heaven to their table, but today, they gnash their teeth of
suffering and regrets living in past glory.
If beauty and fame bring ideal relationships, then celebrities should
have the best marriages but those who live simply, walk humbly and love
genuinely.
Politicians are so conscious of money that they don’t even know their
constitutional duty less to talk of their own mandates.
If power ensures security, then officials should walk unguarded but
only those who live simply sleep soundly.
Which profession is free of this shadow pursuit?
Medical practitioners prefer money to saving lives and are always ready
to change life with money.
The legal practitioners are so conscious of “pea-nut money” that they
see the truth and turn it upside down.
Others are willing to but because of
“who has interest in the case”. Like Pontus Pilate and Cephas in the case of Christ.
Is it not because of money and fame that many are been lured and
trapped in the occultism circle just to remain in position and maintain their
money?
The pursuit of shadow ends in disappointment and frustration at a point
in a man’s life.
Many have been so blind that they don’t know the difference
between the real things of life and the shadow their entire life busy pursuing
fake and abominable things of the heart.
Imagine yourself walking in darkness, and then looking forward, you saw
an image in human form and you earnestly pursued it because you were so afraid
of the darkness and what it comes with.
Therefore you needed a companion to
walk and talk to. On getting closer, with that full assurance and confidence
that “at last, you found a companion”, a very mighty lightening struck only for
you to discover that you have been pursuing shadow.
Oh! What a sadness, pain, regret
and depression that will fill your heart?
That is how life is.
A great philosopher Dr. J. Okorafor from his book ‘Rivers of Wealth’
said; “No water keeps running in season and out of season if it had no
fountain, only a fool would believe to have gotten a pool of water for
quenching his thirst knowing full well that it has no fountain”.
Money is a shadow of wealth. When the light of sickness, economic
meltdown, and lack of planning, fraudulent actions struck, the shadow
disappears.
Focus in digging out this treasure in you then money will follow
up.
First seek the kingdom of God and every other thing shall be added unto you
said Jesus Christ
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