We all need one another (Part 2)
Ecclesiastes
4:9-10 (NKJV)
9 Two are better
than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, one
will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when
he falls, for he has no one to help him up.
"We need each other, deeper
than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic
imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no
question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than
friendship." -- Patch Adams
There world has continued to have a good reason to
move from sunrise to sunset and season to season, not for anything but for me
and you. The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness but HE has positioned you and
i to dwell in it and have dominion over the things of the Earth, which means
God appreciate the word ‘WE, OUR, and US’ and not just going about exhibiting
‘ME, MYSELF, and I’ attitude, it makes the world tasteless.
I like to tell of something that happened few days
ago, there is this lady, my friends has told me about her attitude and how they
don’t want to have anything to do with her but i made them realize i would talk
to her and she would be my friend, i knew she isn’t a bad person but she has
been too conscious of people’s actions towards her and she is just always ready
to fight back even when the person mean no harm. I did talk to her and she does
respond each time i do but one day i experienced the same outburst from her
because i was kidding with her and she knew but she started to see it like i
was making jest of her and she said nasty things to me. I felt bad, decided
never to talk to her and i start to ignore her because my friends then made me
a laughing stock but i don’t feel happy ignoring her. In the beginning of this
year, i saw her, called on her and she walked up to me without any grudge, then
i tried to settle with her and she thanked me for doing so, i said sorry to her
even when i knew i wasn’t wrong. Few days later, i was at the bus-stop to board
the bus, then i saw her running from far to catch up with the bus but i knew
she can’t make it there because the bus would leave immediately i step into the
bus, i was the last passenger, i thought of what to do to help, so i spoke to
the driver to kindly wait for her and the driver unbelievably agreed. The
driver waited till she came and i saw her thanking the driver, she didn’t know
till now that i made it happen but i was glad i helped somebody. If we haven’t
settled at this time, it’s possible i act wickedly and she would have to stay
back in the cold for another 1 hour waiting for the next bus. She also
explained something about a course that was unclear to me few days later. The
moral of this short story is that, that next person to you, you least thought could
have any relevance to your life at one time or the other, might be the one to
play a substantial role in an event or situation of your life, learn to control
and direct the force of the relationship you keep with everyone you come across
in life to creating a better you and upholding a peaceful, colourful, and
healthy atmosphere around you.
The second set i mentioned is the “I mind my
business” group of people, they don’t care either you live or not, fall or
rise, sneeze or cough, they have set their heart to function like you are not
in existence. This people believe they don’t have you in their brain because
you have not done anything meaningful that could call their attention to you or
live a wow life that could trigger their interest. You must appreciate this set
of people too because they are just looking for success and excellence in you
to show forth and they would come, knocking on your door and asking for a
little space in your life. Cherish them because they are like the strong
burning fire that do not cease until they produce the finest gold hidden in
you, it is time to look well, and strategise towards success and make them come
running to you, be the stone the builders
rejected that became the cornerstone, don’t panic, you are a miracle and
the spirit of excellence from God lies in you.
Life is so interesting, that you can’t have everyone
loving, celebrating and blessing you, that’s why the next wonderful set of
people exist also in your life. They are there to directly or indirectly
display their utmost dislike, jealousy, envy, hatred, opposition, rejection,
malice, reproach etc. towards you verbally, through facial expression and body
gesture. Don’t forget we live in the midst of foes and we must careful but God
said HE would prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies and HE
is always with you, so don’t fear. This set of people i ranked them to be very
important to our growth in life and they are there to keep us on our feet. They
are present in your life to dump all kinds of mess in your life, if they have
their way but if you are wise and vigilant enough, you would discover that
their actions are to your favour because then you have some mess present in
your life before theirs that you never cared to clean because it was minute,
and now you can clean all together and make your life sparkling clean. There is
a saying that, the King’s house that got burnt down, has only given it a chance
for a greater construction and better beautification. Your life will never stop
shocking your enemies because even when they come with their sawing machine to
cut you down because they hate seeing you a tree with very green leaves, when
they do, hence, you will sprout out again with bigger branches, greener leaves,
better fruits and stronger roots but this would be possible only as long as you
put your trust and immense faith in God. The best revenge for those that hate
you and your life is success and nothing else but continued success.
You have a great deal of work on this last set of
people, it’s nobody else job but YOURS. If you would be sincere you have some
people in the corner of your heart that you despise, rubbish, dislike, envy,
reproach, scared of their success, backbite, oppress, antagonize and many more
of silly evil act you allow to have a place in you due to your ignorance and
celebration of folly, for a long time you may not have realized this but i want
to call your attention to the potential destruction that comes along with this
way of life. The say “what goes around comes around” is no joke, whatsoever you
sow you reap, if you sow hatred, you have it back in abundance because every
seed sown have potential to yielding more. You will have to empty and uproot
the evil seed you have planted in your heart against this people, if you must
live a happy, peaceful, and sincere successful life. If you are having
difficulty living the good life you are here for and having that happy life,
you have imagined for yourself, don’t forget you are the one who have set the barricade
to it and limited yourself from living a life you desire. Until you eliminate
the evil thinking, attitude and actions from your life, you will never have the
life you desire but a life you deserve. Your inward man determines the
atmosphere around you!
I know with the simple ideas i have peddled here,
somebody life will experience a dynamic change for good, better and best as you
want it, if you can absorb it into your life. I see a new and better you
evolving and the world is about experience a great change because of me and
you, our life would bring meaningful impact to world and the people in it. Stay
blessed and make the world see the change you want in it through you!
God Loves ♥ You
Ogundipe Clement Shola
shollyclem@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/ogundipe.c.shola
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