Finding the un-lost God...

I have seen how we can be so blessed and not even know it. Having been privileged to visit Clearwater; a small town within Manitoba Province. Lo! There was no network for the phone service provider I normally use. I couldn't even make phone calI or receive calls. It was like being in Ijebu town in Nigeria; West Africa. We can be sad when we realize that we cannot get all we want. But we hardly step back to see all what we have. All the opportunities we can convert, et.al. Isn't it funny how we seldom fail to see what we've really acquired over the years?

I am finding out how people are so different and how they're also the same everywhere you go. “Migration continual” everywhere you go; fro rural to urban, fro urban to urban. Everyone is seeking for something. We are all looking for something better. We want the Golden Fleece. We want a better life. We seek for economic values, financial worth, enduring benefits and gains, social securities and more. We convince ourselves that these are what we are looking for. But just as we reach them. We feel the search has to continue still. In the actual fact what we are really searching for is like a north star, like an ideal that may never be touchable. Could this be the reason why in that process of searching some of us sometimes get caught up in the rat race. We lose our sense of reasoning.

Somehow someone once said: "Until you lose yourself, you can’t find yourself." Therefore, we don't even look before we leap any more. We just throw ourselves on…we go with people, we dabble into situations, we join a ritual, we become member of a committee, we join a group on social networking site, without giving a thought to the responsibilities involved. Without proper scrutiny; we are already involved without proper questioning. Therefore, self-loss is inevitable and it is becoming a phenomenon. It is one thing that separates the matured thinkers from infantile thinkers. Its one thing to get lost; it’s another thing too be lost. I may not clarify the difference. I may just hint on the difference. Just read on.
We must be careful not get lost in other people's folly. It’s like getting caught in a spider web. You may see through it, but you are stuck anyway. At times, you don’t even know if you are seeing clearly or not; for why would you end up in such a mess in the first instance? It is the same thing when it comes to being lost. It is the worst thing that can happen to anyone. I believe that we can actually avoid getting lost. And if we have lost our sense of identity in one way or the other. It is in Christ that we can see our true destiny recaptured, renewed and recovered.

Hope revived!

"Optimism is a spirit that must be carefully guarded by those who have it..."
-Olaotan Odunuga

“It’s a lie!” -You probably have heard or said that statement at one time or the other; when someone told you that something you lost hope on is workable or possible? "...And hope does not maketh ashamed...”(see Romans 5:5)“...But Jacob’s heart was like a stone, he couldn’t take it in” (see Genesis 45:26) That his son, Joseph is alive and ruling somewhere in Egypt? How do you explain that? Do you expect a joyful feeling from such a man like Pa Jacob, who has been accustomed to sorrow, pain and despair up to old age?

How do you explain to him that better days are here? How do you say that his latter end shall be greater and better than his beginning? That beginning from this very moment onward you will never have a reason to cry any more but laugh continuously?
All his children suddenly appeared as cast in a movie; on a large screen in a cinema hall, smiling. These everyday people he loves and lives with suddenly changed in status. How do you explain what happened to such a man like Jacob and expect him to join you on tourism jubilantly right away? A team of kids, who were worried a while ago instantly appeared from their trip rejoicing and they want him to believe them that all is well? Is it that easy to believe that all is well when so many things were not right? The most shocking News was that the presumed late Joseph is still alive?

I mean it took this old man some weeks or months to send these guys back to Egypt for more food after they have exhausted the first supply purchased from Egypt. Since they had arrived and said that Simeon had been arrested and will not be released until Benjamin comes, he had shut off from them all. He had to figure out if it was safe to send Benjamin to go with them even though they needed food desperately. Now they are all here rejoicing and even going as far as saying Joseph is alive and he is king over Egypt? The drama is becoming a little confusing and life is almost at an anticlimax here!

If you are still there and you’ve given up all hopes like Jacob? Your turning point is here! Joseph is alive! That was the good news for Jacob then. Jesus is alive is the good news for you now. My dear reader, your dreamer is alive! Your dream has come true.Your vision is released and you are freed! Your interpretation has become a reality! Your dream is manifesting! Mystery is becoming a possibility for you and all your doubts are shifting away. Every uncertainty is turning into certainty in your case! An achievable idea,has come.An interpretation has come for your visions. Your dream has began to speak! Right now! To those knotted situations, begin to receive clarity now! And every twined dreams and innovation begin to manifest into realization!

How many times have we been like Jacob we’ve been praying for so long for something to happen, may be for a new born and your delayed was over. A wife announced that she is now pregnant at last; but you couldn't believe it. It’s a lie.You said but No it’s not a lie. It is a dream come true.You cannot just figure it out yet…you can’t Imagine it? Well. Even the church folks were like that. Sometimes ago, they were praying for Apostle Peter in a house during the time of his imprisonment for preaching the gospel. And Rhoda heard a knock and went to answer the door. Behold it was Peter at the door. She announced joyfully that Apostle Peter is out there at the door and they all thought she was mad. It’s a lie! How can it be? They said. How come our prayers got answered, just like that? Is that possible? Weren’t they praying in faith with un-expectancy?

Faithfulness and un-expectant heart does not go together. Don’t mess with God at all. If you are not ready for it; don't ask for it. If you want it badly enough.Then pray for He does not joke with His people. One of the things God will never do is that He will never crack a joke over our matters. If you’re not serious about it, don’t bring it forward to Him in prayers. Expectation is vital if we must become the recipient of the Grace of God and receive answers to our prayers. We must be looking out at every moment for our reply. We should dare to expect to be blessed by other people. We should want a better day ahead than the previous ones. We should seek gracious hour at every moment of the day. Look out for our answers coming through the doorway to us... Optimism is of God. Inspiration is from God. And we are children of God.We need both.