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| our lives are like the wind, its here today but gone tomorrow |
I’ve one fear that has always haunted me all my life. It is the fear that someday I’d have to give an answer concerning my work here on earth. I don’t believe life is as free flowing as most people would like us to think. You have a great work to deliver for which someday you’d account for. This I think would determine my place either in heaven or hell. Believe or not there is a good place and a bad place waiting for mankind.
Is
it pastors alone who are called and have purpose? Definitely no! We all know this but we also
have flimsy excuses that tend to excuse us now. But these excuses would not
save us on the final day. After living on this earth for some years now, I have
lost an interest in life and the only thing that matters to me is my afterlife.
This is serious talk.
My
fear is compounded by the fact that time is gradually catching up; time
expires. Your assignment and time is one and the same thing. When you time is
up your assignment is gone. I saw this somewhere ‘the Spirit of God would not strive
with man forever’, Google it.
The first
time would come when my pursuit of the vision that God has for me would expire.
I have seen old men in the streets speaking into mega phones that passersby
don’t hear. The burden in these old men has grown over the years that they’d do
anything just to get a bit of relief from the burden in their hearts, the call
that they should have responded to when they were young and able bodied. I
don’t want to be like that.
The
time for our call expires. At some age it’d expire or when you wait till
something (God forbid) happens physically to you so that you are permanent out
of reach from answering your call.
Your
time may expire also when you have too much responsibility, having a wife, kids
and a very demanding job that could be the end of you. I believe the best time
for a person to answer his call is in his youth.
Untimely
death is also there lurking in the dark. It happens to most people but it can
happen to anybody. Though we are special we are not that special, let’s not
grossly overate ourselves.
The
call is to everybody who claims to be a child of God. Not all of us would be
pastors but we all have special vacuums to fill. This is repentance for me. It
is being obedient to what the Lord wants you to do. For me repentance is doing
your assignment; therein is safety. Repentance is not going to church every
Sunday. It is working the work that you’ve been assigned to.
Destiny;
from my view of destiny is in two parts.
The
first is already accomplished; you are already in your destiny because you are
LIVING. If you are supposed to be a pastor someday then you are a pastor now;
whether you preach or not someday you’d be judged with your title as a pastor. The
pastor’s criteria of judgment would be applied to you and your eternal fate
would be decided. If you are to sponsor the work of God in the future, you are
that now. Whether you do it or not you’d be judged with that criterion.Let’s not deceive ourselves. We don’t
become men of God because we accept to do it or announce it to the world; we
already are if that’s our call. Jesus Christ was born as a savior of the
world, whether he knew it or not, whether he did it or not, nothing could
change that fact.
The second
part of destiny is doing your work or assignment. If you do it you get a reward
or punishment some day. When you do it well then you’d be selected and put in
the group of safety where you’d be rewarded according to what you have done. If
you do it badly like we see how people are managing their call lackadaisically
everyday then you’d be put in the disobedient category and you’d pay fully.
In
the nut shell, destiny is both your now and your future. You are your destiny
and this qualifies you to function and deliver.
On
that day your work would be reviewed and based on your talent or assignment or
destiny you’d be rewarded. One group would hear this ‘thou wicked and
unfaithful servant’ and the other would be exonerated. Where would you be?
Ecclesiastes
11:9 and 12:13-14
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment
Let us hear
the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for
this is the whole duty of man.
For
God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it
be good, or whether it be evil.
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