“This Book of the LAW shall not DEPART from your mouth, but YOU shall MEDITATE in it day and night, that YOU may OBSERVE to do according to all that is written in it. For then YOU will MAKE YOUR way PROSPEROUS, and then YOU will have GOOD SUCCESS” Joshua 1:8.
Success to me is failure turned inside out. It’s the ability and capacity of using God’s word in context, and in principle to cause a failed state to become a successful state again. Anything otherwise is abuse, scam and fraud. For in life, ABUSE means – ABNORMAL [ABNORMALLY] USE of anything in principle against the expectations. It’s a result of being uninformed of the PURPOSE of a thing. There’s ABUSE in almost in every places in life – abuse of individual or people, position, relationship, family and marital life, power, material resources [money, time and effort], opportunities and facilitating materials and such like.
An example of an abusive atmosphere can be found in marriages. In some marriages, because majority of time most people are not properly INFORMED of the PURPOSE of MARRIAGE they abuse their spouses. We see often how much resources are spent in FORTUNES in terms of – Time, Money, Material, People and Efforts – in preparing for a day WEDDING; while those concerns make no adequate preparation to ensure an assured life journey; and in some cases, those involved are not properly INFORMED with the set PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT, for them to be successful of the intended MARRIAGE; and that marriage itself it’s supposedly to be a lifetime journey in grace, till death do either or both apart. And yes, everyone clamour for success and excellence but challenges the principles in terms to keep them responsible and accountable to their desired causes in context and content.
“Jesus answered and said to them, “You are MISTAKEN [ERRING], not KNOWING the Scriptures [PRINCIPLE OF GODLY LIVING] nor the power of God” Matthew 22:29/Emphasis Mine.
It’s because of some people’s failing state in principle on the purpose of a thing, that’s why we see many in-fighting today and abuse within; and many unnecessary reasons being given for divorce or divorcing each other respectively. And thus, happenings that OUGHT not to be, especially in a Born Again Believer in Christ Jesus’ home. And unfortunately in most cases, where children are available, they get them innocently involved, and that has created an incomprehensible and unimaginable devastating and depressing state of mind for the children in such marital relationship. Some will have their children abused irrespective, for same lack of informed state in context, in principle and in purpose, of being blessed with these blessed children. A fulfilling life is more than mere wishes otherwise any will have it with ease. It’s built and achieved through the principles laid out in God’s word in context. That’s how the content can be materialised and fulfilled purposefully and meaningfully in the grace.
“And say to Archippus, TAKE HEED to the MINISTRY which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou FULFIL it” Colossians 4:17.
“He that TILLETH [CULTIVATED] his land shall have PLENTY OF BREAD: but he that FOLLOWETH AFTER VAIN PERSONS shall have POVERTY enough. 20 A FAITHFUL man shall abound with blessings: but he that MAKETH HASTE to be rich shall NOT BE INNOCENT. 21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress. 22 He that HASTETH to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him” Proverbs 28:19-24.
“He that TILLETH [CULTIVATED] his land shall be SATISFIED with bread: but he that FOLLOWETH VAIN PERSONS is void of understanding” Proverbs 12:11/Emphasis mine.
The KNOWLEDGE of a thing empowers and emancipates. It helps to make an informed decision by the word of God and to fulfil purpose in context and content. While IGNORANCE is not just bad enough, but a DIS-EASED [AN UNEASE] place and position that is worse than a cancerous disease of any sort. For by it many talents, vision and dreams to enhance life and godly living has ended up in the GRAVEYARD unfulfilled. And in some cases has created a failed individual in a failed family in a failed community in a failed society; and robbing such of creativity, innovation and the power to initiate and explore opportunities to greatness that’s fulfilling in purpose and principles of the world desired to behold.
“Truly, these times of IGNORANCE God overlooked, but now COMMANDS all men everywhere to REPENT (change of heart), 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead” Acts 17:30-31/Emphasis Mine.
In life as a child of God, you can only recover and enter your place of greatness and fulfilment when you discover the PRINCIPLE of the WORKING WORD of God to that your intended VISION. This is profound when one takes light from Habakkuk 2:1-4 especially the verses 2 which states:
“. . . And the Lord answered me, and said, WRITE the VISION, and MAKE it PLAIN upon TABLES, that he may RUN that READETH it . . .“.
The scripture in Habakkuk did not say – He that RUNS or RUNNETH may READ, but rather said – “He MAY RUN that READS or READETH“; which thus Mean, NO READING, then, NO RUNNING, no matter the prevailing circumstances. The principle herein is this – you have to READ in order to know and understand; you need to acquire or be fully informed of the context and principle; you need to obtain the required KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of the said VISIONED CONCEPT – that is, to have the clarity to enable you WALK in WISDOM before running with that intended life vision, which could be in these terms but not limited to:
- Executing a Business/Enterprise,
- Pursuing a Career,
- Positioning a Ministerial Gospel Ministry,
- Pursuing governance in Politics/Government
- Pursuing Leadership in any Management
- Pursuing matters of Marriage/Relationship
- Pursuing any such like matters though not mentioned that pertains to life and godly living.
When you don’t read before you run as Scripturally set as a principle for greatness and fulfilling purpose, then failure and frustration awaits; just as many have fallen and become victims of their own creations; simply because of their RUNNING ahead by their mere ZEAL or PASSION, without READING to KNOW and UNDERSTAND, the FULNESS at hand of what it takes in their VISIONED CONCEPT.
I plead with you today, to make amends, RE-EVALUATE your vision by READING it again before RUNNING with it. Your greatness in principle and purpose is enviable when the Scriptural context to the content is taken into consideration. Therefore, as you set your day’s PLANS PURPOSES AND PURSUITS, endeavour to ensure to be assured, by READING to UNDERSTAND before RUNNING with it. BE WELL INFORMED TO EXPERIENCE GENUINE TRANSFORMATION to a fulfilled life in the grace.
God wants you to both SUCCEED and be FULFILLED – only it’s by PRINCIPLE and not by METHOD. For what may apply to one case may not apply to another hence application by METHODS will fail in most cases while application by PRINCIPLE will always triumph.
Have a gracious and graceful moment in God’s BLESSEDNESS in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“And the Lord answered me, and said, WRITE the VISION, and make it PLAIN upon TABLES, that he may RUN that READETH it” Habakkuk 2:1-4.
“This Book of the Law shall not DEPART from your mouth, but YOU shall MEDITATE in it day and night, that YOU may OBSERVE to do according to all that is written in it. For then YOU will MAKE your way PROSPEROUS, and then YOU will have GOOD SUCCESS” Joshua 1:8.
“And say to Archippus, TAKE HEED to the MINISTRY which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou FULFIL it” Colossians 4:17.
“Truly, these times of IGNORANCE God overlooked, but now COMMANDS all men everywhere to REPENT (change of heart), 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead” Acts 17:30-31/Emphasis Mine.
“Jesus answered and said to them, “You are MISTAKEN [ERRING], not KNOWING the Scriptures [PRINCIPLE OF GODLY LIVING] nor the power of God” Matthew 22:29/Emphasis Mine.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
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