Don't let a vicious Dog remind you that you can truly run at lightening speed. Just begin to practice on your own
Who are you in the year 2016? have you made up your mind what you want to be? No farmer begins to prepare his/her farm in the rain season. The farmer never waits for the rainy season to show up, the farmer knows that the rainy season will come and they prepare for it.
We always let trouble remind us that we can actually achieve bigger things. We begin to work in an organization and believe we will last in there forever until retrenchment knocks unexpectedly. Organizations or companies have no feelings. Therefore, start to plan your life while you can
The biggest joke of the year is making new years' resolution on new years' day. we all know the new year will come. But how much time do we take to prepare what we want to achieve in good time. Do we even wright down a plan of action? Lets get a cue from the almighty God the creator of all things. God is a planner and the Bible actually says He starts from the end before He begins. May be you are not following me on this. Let me remind you a story from the Bible book of Genesis 15:13-16. God promises Abraham children but He says they shall go into slavery for 400 years in a strange land that we all know was Egypt. Why is God doing such a disservice to a man who desperately needs a child? For sure He has told Abraham that his seed shall come to worship Him in the Land that He has given Abraham i.e. Canaan. But only after they have been in slavery. Wow
To understand what God is trying to do, lets fast forward to the time of Moses. God commanded Moses to build a Tabernacle as His only dwelling place in the midst of the children of Israel as is recorded in the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy. The Tabernacle was built with specific requirements that required mathematical, architectural and design skills.
Now lets backup to grand pa Abraham. He was a good man, righteous and a farmer. One thing is he did not know how to read or write. He was a professional farmer in his own rights. Therefore, if Abraham's seed would be required to meet God and have Him in their midst, Abraham was not going to be the best mentor to pass down mathematical or construction skills they would require to build the Tabernacle piece of Architecture. To achieve this, they would be required to acquire writing, mathematical and construction skills. These skills where only available in Egypt. God needed the children of Abraham in Egypt to learn the skills and they were going to assimilate the knowledge and skills under harsh circumstances. The knowledge you gain under pressure, you will never lose. The Bible records that they built the cities in Egypt. They needed that knowledge to come and use it to build the Ark of the covenant with the required precision. When you read the story of the children of Israel in the book of Exodus, don't cry because of what they went through, they needed to go through all that trouble to become who they have become as a nation.
Most of you have become the people you are today because of what you went through in life. Therefore, thank God for the troubles you went through because out of it all you learnt how to plan your life.
Have a prosperous New Year and not a Pompous new year
