PUSH WITH PAINS!

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” (Rom 8:18-20NKJV)

Perhaps you have once heard the story Nick Vujicic who was born without limbs but now a successful motivational speaker having his own family. If you have once lost anything precious to you, know that the reason why you didn’t lose all is because what is left is still more than enough to make your life relevant. You are able to hear or read this today because there is something precious you have not lost. If a man lost anything outside, he suffered no loss as he that lost his inside.

There is always something to gain from contrary situations if only we can pick it from God’s eye view. How do you feel when you loose someone or something dear to you? How do you feel when cheated by someone you dearly trusted? What about when betrayed and accused of something you never did? How do you feel when you are molested or everyone around sees you as the black sheep in the flock? You may call the feelings anger, pain, regret or even disappointment, but I call it energy!

Tough situations have a way of generating energy in us such as when rightly released can bear great fruits. In other words, all inconveniencies arising as a result of what you are passing through right now is only working out a weight of glory in your life.

Those situations when carefully handled can positively change your life forever! There is no way you can compare the productivity of a land where fertilizer was applied to the one without. The fertilized one will surely be more energised than the other.

Every man that made meaning in this world has positive energy bottled up inside of him. Life is not meant for regret after a fall, but for a resilient action; to fulfil and go beyond all barriers. You need energy to refuse to be on the floor. Only the violent takes it by force!

Christopher Reeve, the former Superman of the box-office hit in 1978 might never have discovered himself if he had not went through a tragedy that rendered him quadriplegic (inability to move all the four limbs or the entire body below the neck) after a horse riding accident. His recovery brought him the passion for motivating and inspiring others to challenge their limitations.

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Cor 4:16-18 NKJV)

Why will Hannah make vow and refuse to leave Shiloh without a child? It is likely because Peninnah wouldn’t just give her a space. The same way Ruth refuses to accept the defeat but still have her own husband. And if you think you are an outcast, let the stories of Rahab and Jephthah show you have all it takes to change your status from the inside to outside. Challenges are meant to bring changes that make us champions!

Who and who do scripture really refers to as men of great exploits? I believe they are men and women:

“…who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. (Heb 11:33-35 NIV).

Never expect the treasure inside of you to come out without a pressure. If you desire Abrahamic kind of blessing, then ask him how it looks like having the first baby at age hundred. If you desire to ascend a throne like Joseph did in a strange land, why not learn how it’s like been rejected, abused and wrongly accused both inside and outside the family.

Abraham against hope believed in hope in order to be called the father of many nations and also instead of Joseph giving up in the prison, he was rather full of energy helping others lessen their sorrow. Anytime you think of not allowing others to pass through such a contrary situation you experienced, then you converting your pains to meaningful energy.

No man is a failure until he personally declares himself one. The pain of failure can soon become a passion for positive change. It takes pain to birth. When you are a winner, you win when you are ready, but it takes being a real winner to win when loosing! Real men persist even when what goes on outside of them is working contrary to what is in their inside.

This is why Jesus also passed through such process like this for our salvation to become a reality.

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Heb 4:15).

His redemptive work was made perfect as with wisdom He releases the pain sustained from the cross as energy “yet without sin”. Even while on the cross, He still stretched a hand of love to a criminal and prayed for his accusers. He was bruised, torment and crucified by his tribe folks for what he never did. But because of the joy set before him, He endured the death on the cross in order to receive a name above all names and an everlasting victory for us.

For everyone who also desire conquest, see that present tough condition as a moment to generate passion and resilient in faith towards God. There is none as helpless as the hopeless. Let the contrary situation knows that you are not the first to experience it, and will definitely not be the last to overcome it. And when the pain becomes greater, it simply shows how closer you are to delivery. At this point you are in labour to birth your own testimony, your own brainchild. You are about to bring forth something new.That is the energy of faith!

Sometime people wondered why their own storm seems much turbulent; sincerely it’s all because it saw Jesus in your boat. It’s because life sees you beyond ordinary. My advice is that you go and awake the energy and you will also see Jesus arose right inside of you. Your fruitfulness is unstoppable!