The Comeback (Destiny Article)

"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail’ Job 14:9

I went to a house to teach and I saw a big mango three, it supplied air to the house. I didn’t think they used fans in that house. The following week it was gone. They’d cut it down, I saw them burn the leaves and branches but the stump was left there. After some few days I went there  and I told the landlord that I like that mango three and they shouldn’t have cut it down, he bragged that it had grown too big and he feared it would fall on the house so he cut it, even so, it would sprout a gain. I didn’t believe him. Two weeks later I went to that house again and when I mentioned that matter of the tree he went straight to where the tree was and plucked some leaves to show me that it was sprouting. I was aghast.

One of the stories I liked to read about was Kathryn Kulhman. That woman of God who backslid and returned after 7years to become more than she was. When I read her story I saw that she was an ordinary human like me but her comeback was extraordinary. Her situation was similar to Sampson in the bible, after his eyes was plucked and he lived under captivity for many years, he was able to come back and scripture says ‘the people he killed that day was more than the people he had killed his entire life combined’.

As I sat thinking about these stories, I know there are lots of people out there with same story. They’ve gone down. It’s not always that it is sin, sometimes it is hard situations. I have thought about this for a long time and I have seen that one of the major things that prevent a comeback for your destiny is old age. When you hit 50 and above it is natural for you to give up when you’re are not into your destiny, some give up as early as 40. It is hard for adults at such age to even switch jobs, when we see them in the newspapers that they are even going to school we asked ourselves ‘what is he going to school for’.

The next thing that cuts a person down can be physical. People give up immediately when they have this physical problem, some resort to begging, only a few of them have performed wonders, like Helen Keller who was blind, deaf and dumb. Physical disablement puts great limitations especially on people psychologically which I think becomes more dangerous than the physical harm itself.

The other limitation I have noticed is hardship. When there is nobody to cater for you so that you can’t go to school anymore, you’d not be able to use your potential. You have been cut down like a tree. When you live from hand to mouth, you don’t have enough time to pursue other things even to go to church.

You can sprout like the tree in the story I have narrated. Trees have roots and if you cut them down, as long as you don’t remove them from the ground and they can feed, if you live the stump in the soil they’d always sprout again.

If you were in a big position once and today you are not there anymore, what you were doing at that time do same now. The fact that you are alive means you are now a stump and you have root. Just start feeding judiciously.

Miss Kulhman’s end was more powerful than her beginning. Sampson killed in one day more than he did all his life. If you can come back again, despite all those people who seem to have overtaken you, you’d surpass them. You have to put yourself together.

Coming back is easier said than done. The problem is you are entangled with so many situations. Its like your hands have been handcuffed to your back and you are been asked to fight. But you have to find a way out of that handcuff. Some people are in jobs that they’d have to stop before they can comeback. Others are in some relationships that they have to quit and it’s very painful because they’ve invested so much that they feel they can’t go on without such relationships.

Quit that job for one that allows you some freedom. Quit that relationship. Start praying again. Change your circle of friends. Start doing those things that gave you success and watch yourself rise up like never before.

If you see healing from the present, you can’t do it at once in certain situations. Nevertheless, take those remedial actions, fight towards the positive side. Sampson’s heard grew again. Stand up!

You can sprout again.

The smartest thing you can do to affect your life forever

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?

King James Bible

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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