Merry Christmas and happy New Year in advance everyone, the
year is quickly coming to an end and as we end this year I thought I could drop
this little something, this is my seventeenth Christmas on earth and the year
2014 would make it my 18th year on earth. In all the years I’ve
spent I’ve learnt a lot of things, especially last year when I had to undergo 5
surgeries, and in the midst of it all I’ve learnt a lot. so today I’m sharing
22 things I’ve learnt from life, I hope you don’t just enjoy them but learn one
or two things you’ll love to take into the new year. Here they are;
1) THERE IS A GOD:
I’ve always known that there is a God and that yes he is real, but more than
anything else I we need just a reminder that there is a God and no he is no man.
2) BE OPEN TO YOUR
DREAMS: 3rd June last year I lost a friend it only made me realize
how short life is, and how many of my dreams I’ve failed to embrace hoping
it’ll come up again sometime in future, however June 3rd taught me
to be open to my dreams as our mortal journey is over all too soon.
3) DON’T SHARE YOUR DREAMS WITH EVERYONE: I learnt this from
pastor TD Jakes, he said not to share your dreams with everyone, as not
everyone has your interest at heart, take the biblical example Joseph even his
own brothers became envious because he shared his dream with them to the extent
of selling him beware of discouragers, and dream killers my pastor would also
say beware of old prophets.
4) SEPERATION: it’s not everybody we start our life with or
even grow up with or have been moving together with we would move ahead with,
the farthest some people in our lives can come with us is where we already are,
to move forward we need to let go of some people in our lives, some people we
still move with are the reasons why we don’t move forward. In the bible even
Abraham had to separate from Lot before God’s promises for him came to pass.
5) WE WONT ALWAYS UNDERSTAND GOD: faith is foolishness to
the ordinary man, Gods ways are always higher than our ways, as such we won’t
always understand his ways and instructions, however one thing is sure if God
has said it then it will be so, we don’t need understanding to obey God’s
instructions we need obedience to understand God Abraham obeyed God without
understanding why God will ask for his only son.
6) YOU CANT BE FRIENDS WITH EVERYBODY: I’m not saying you
can’t be nice to everybody I’m saying it’s not everybody that can be your
friends, you need to choose people whose life you add value to and those who
add value to you to be friends with, association determines how further you can
go and the way you go. No one is above influence; the wrong friends would only
influence you negatively.
7) FAMILY IS IMPORTANT : I had a conversation with a friend
and there was something she said that stuck, she said there comes a time in our
life when we look to the heavens and the sun, the moon, the stars won’t even be
able to reassure us that God is there, we look around un and nothing seems to
tell you that there is God, it’s for seasons like that God gave us family,
their presence most times would reassure us that there is always God I
personally faced one of such seasons recently and today I’m thankful for
family.
8) WE ALL ARE DIFFERENT: while I don’t mean to be insulting,
some people could be basically described as plain stupid, I mean chronic
stupidity, while we tend to get annoyed at such people I realized that we
really are just different while some people could find such stupidity amusing I
find it plain annoying. However we all cannot be same, we also all have
different experiences in our lives that shaped us, so we can’t do things or
think the same way.
9) MAKE ALLOWANCE FOR OTHERS: while we are different from
others, we need to also make allowances for others, who may hurt or offend us
by the way they do things or something else. Something I can’t stand is strong
stupidity or when people I do not expect to do some things do them, but now
after being surprised and annoyed a lot of times I realize that I need to make
allowance for people to do less than I expect or to exhibit their stupidity and not be annoyed
or surprised.
10) GUARD YOUR TOUNGE:
life and death truly are in the power of the tongue, plus people really
remember what you say, be watchful what you say, especially in a moment of
weakness.
11) JOY INDEED COMES IN THE MORNING: last year I had a lot
of dark nights I had 5 surgeries within February and September but at the end
of it all I’m here hale and hearty even writing about it, joy indeed comes in
the morning.
12) FEAR CAN TRULY HINDER YOU FROM LIVING: shortly after my
surgery I struggled with fear, I was just so scared that something else could
happen to me it affected me so much that ridiculous as this may seem I started
sleeping in my mom’s room (it’s just a year ago so I wasn’t a kid). It really
hindered me from living as once evening started approaching I became scared and
could not really do anything my life was on pause as from 5pm.
13) PRAYER CHANGES THINGS: in all I went through the turning
point came in the midst of prayer, truly prayer does change things.
14) MUSIC IS TRULY A
BALM TO THE SOUL: yes music is really a balm to the soul, however the right
kind of music is what I’m talking and not all the garbage we find today, those
ones will rather double your trouble, the God type of music is the real balm
here I’m talking about hymns and spiritual songs. Need a few pointers, try
Jamie Grace’s music, or Britt Nicole, Audrey Assad, Lecrae, Flame, Kenny K’ore,
and quite a lot of others.
15) YES THERE WOULD BE PAINS BUT IT WONT LAST FOREVER: there
would be phases of pains and hurt in our lives but believe me the pain won’t
last forever, it shall surely pass away, that’s only if you allow it to really
heal.
16) TO LIVE FREE IS TO KNOW BONDAGE: a lot of people fall
into trouble because of freedom, to live a life without control, or without
accountability to anybody is the beginning of doom for a person, one of the
worse risk is trying to be the boss of yourself.
17) BE AWARE OF THE
DARKNESS BUT ALWAYS FOCUS ON THE LIGHT: yes there is always darkness in life
but there is also light never allow your focus to be on the dark, focus on the
light always.
18) NEVER ALLOW DEPRESSION: no matter how terrible your life
may seem never allow depression into your life it would hinder a lot of things
in your life.
19) RUN FROM BITTERNESS: no matter how much hurt and
heartbreaks you go through in life allow them to make you stronger, but never
allow them leave you bitter, bitterness is like a chronic state of cancer, it
even drives people away from us.
20) MAJORITY IS NOT LEGALITY: that everybody is doing
something does not make it right, neither does a thing being legal make it
right, everybody is doing it should not be your reasons for doing things, most
time the majority could be really wrong, we don’t always have to stick to the
status quo.
21) GOD DOESN’T ALWAYS USE THOSE YOU EXPECT HIM TO USE: God
is not always use those we expect or want him to use for us or in our lives,
however he will use those he wants to use for us. God’s ways are not ours.
22) FINALLY: Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take
him at his word, just to rest upon his promise, just to know thus says the lord, this is
actually from a hymn, it’s a summary of all I’ve learnt and gone through in
life, trusting God is just the sweetest thing that we can do. Try it today he’s
def amazing.
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