Wednesday 20 February 2013

God graces us to be who we are and not who we are not


 You are who you are and I,who I am.
 

The world would be one boring place if we were all the same. Like the same things, do the same things, like the same food all of us, same songs, same…everything. This would be one boring world. I tend to consider our differences as God’s way of spicing up the creation. Variety I say is good.
 

When we differ in opinion that is not a bad thing. It opens room for debate which tests the viability of every opinion and in that process, the best is left on the sieve while the rest goes through.
 

It’s the difference in our cultures that has made boom the country’s tourism sector-both local and international. I will not pay to go see how Masaai’s dress if I dress like them; how Luhyia’s engage bulls in a fight if we do it in where I come from, no. I will pay to see what I don’t have where I come from.
 

All this difference is good and fun too I say! It also diversifies one’s point of view and in making decisions or opinions, you have a wider scope of consideration.
 

Now, back to what I was to talk about. Every quality in a man comes with its special grace. In as much as we may be from the same source-God-human beings differ in many ways both physically and spiritually. If you are a man, you will have sufficient grace to sustain you as a man and to tackle whatever comes your way. Same case applies to a woman. Grace sufficient is given to her to give birth and do whatever else is outlined for her to do as a woman.
 

The grace given to a woman is not the same given to a man. Some grace will however be given to us by virtue we are human beings.
 

Some are born with disabilities while others are born okay. For whatever disability you may be born with-considering you did not choose to have it-I trust the Almighty who made you see the light of the sun has put in you sufficient grace to help you live-on with that situation on planet earth where He has also placed people with no disabilities.
 

How else can you explain a blind man eking a living from photography? I call it grace, grace so amazing! God will not bring you here to suffer the wrath of problems; I trust He will give you enough grace to go through whatever situation that comes your way. If you are blind, there is sufficient grace to walk you through your life on earth.
 

At times, we have faults on our bodies. Some were born with but others we have gotten them on our walk on earth- God is not unfamiliar with this too. He will not let His own walk alone in the shadow of death nor watch trouble drown them. There is grace sufficient to handle whatever quality/situation brought in our lives.
 

You will agree with me, you don’t have a problem with your big-bodied size until someone teases or you or comments about it or say you find yourself in company of slim people. You do not have a problem with your height until someone comments about it and then you start thinking about it.
 

You don’t consider it a fault until it’s challenged.
 

We hardly have a problem with who we are until we are challenged about it. That explains why you are so confident when alone and so ‘reserved’ in the presence of other people. Some may attribute this to company-we can’t refute that- but I say there’s more to it than just that.
 

I tend to think that no one had a problem with the way they are until someone/something negatively influenced them. It could be someone spoke badly about your height or size or any other and that is how you got that bad/wrong attitude about yourself now. Originally speaking, you dint even realize it was ‘odd’ until someone said it. It then got to you so hard that you now hate yourself.
 

The attitudes and understandings we get of ourselves as we live on do not cut shot the grace that God set-forth for us from the beginning. If you consider yourself less than what God created you to be, the grace set out for you remains under used-its only wise to live up to who you ought to be and use it up don’t you think?
 

No man should be be-littled by a disability or fault they have on them. Why God chose to create a planet for all humans regardless of their physical nature is reason enough for you to feel at home and well able to survive like any other human.
 

Consider self esteem as God given grace for you to be who you should be.
 

The thing is, no one is perfect, we are just imperfect in different ways, I falter where you pass and the opposite is also true.

Monday 18 February 2013

THE POWER OF WILL

  God decides it’s time to restore mankind back to me. There is a way, the only way for this case. He sends down a part of His own. He had the option of the twenty four elders, the angels and other heavenly creatures but He decides, I will send out my son.

  John 3:16-For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son….

The Lord wills to save mankind, the next thing He does is to give His best. Is man willing to be saved?

Life is ‘programmed’ in a way that some things will never come your way until you will that they come. We call it THE WILL POWER. Just as magnetic unlike poles attract, so does willpower attract some ‘good’ for/in our lives. You are most likely to do so much of what it takes to attain something that you so much desire, in this case that which you will.

Christ walks on to a lame man and when the man asks Him “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”, Jesus tells him ‘“I am willing,”’(Matt.8:2).

The Lord wills to do it for us, question is, are we willing to ask and receive it? Had the man not willed to get healed, he wouldn’t have come forward. It all starts with us. There is a way for those who will- WHERE THERE IS WILL THERE IS WAY!

Salvation shall come to him who hears His word and wills to receive Him in His heart. God will not force salvation upon men. He lets them know His intention-to save them- but leaves it to them to freely/willingly accept it rest man says ‘God you forced me into this’. No matter how right, wise and essential salvation is, it’s up to man’s will to take it in.

WILL is the ‘purchase’ power that man has to attain salvation in his life. You can only will to get saved and then believe in your heart and confess with your mouth-and there you are saved!
It cost God His best but for us it takes the will. You will receive that which He has laid out for you if you will in your heart to get it.