How about I tell you what the time says?


 
The time says eight  (1)GET
                                     (2) YOUR
                                     (3) HEAD
                                     (4) TOGETHER
                                     (5) AND
                                     (6) MAXIMIZE
                                     (7) YOUR
                                     (8) TIME!
Every day we grow older, every day we have one less day in our future and one more day in our past. Now, you can keep doing the old things over and over again and then in five years you will be about where you are today or you can decide you will stand up, climb the mountain and fight. It might be hard but you will have to change something in your life, exercise discipline in your life, there will be days when you will be sad, disappointed, angry, weak, frustrated all you have to do is learn from that, strive, be dedicated so when you become that diamond, you will look back and be glad you maximized your time to its fullest. "You cant be who you're going to be and who you want to be at the same time" - Bishop T.D Jakes. A lady once said on her deathbed “I will give my whole kingdom if only I could have one extra bed”. Make the most of today to realize the value of one year, a student who failed a grade should realize the value of a month, tell an individual who missed an opportunity to realize the value of an hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet to realize the value of a second, ask someone who just avoided an accident to realize the value of a millisecond, tell a person who won a golden or silver medal to treasure every moment they have and treasure it more because it was shared with someone special.  blog37The value of time is unfathomable and its power is inestimable, the scarcest and essential commodity that one can ever have, you can make more money, more business, create more opportunity but you cannot make more time. Every day is a gift from God and with that gift comes to a responsibility and maximize that moment, the scripture says we should redeem our time by living right, be happy despite the shortcuts because as you are spending your day, you are spending your life and at the end of each day, you can’t get back that 24hours which have gone.
Age helps you appreciate life, the closer you get to that age the more you appreciate life. Now the problem we have with our youth is that they think they are going to live forever, the truth is that you won’t. Psalm 39:4-5 says “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best each of us is but a breath”. So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise, but live wisely. Use every chance you have for good because these are evil times. So do not be foolish but learn what the Lord wants you to do, (Ephesians 5:15-17). Understand the preciousness of time given to you. Begin to use those moments with discretion and to decide with distinction what you will and will not lend your energy to because frankly you know, you just don’t have time for the foolishness. One thing that will make you understand why you do not have time for foolishness is if you have experienced foolishness in your past and you look back over your life and you say, Lord, if only I could get back to that time, I would have done things better, if only I knew then what I know now I would have done it in a different way, I would deal with it differently. Then you begin to ask yourself questions like why did I let that worry me? Why did I respond to that issue in the first place? Why did I spend years of my life trying to reconcile with someone who didn’t want to reconcile with me? Why did I spend years of my life and energy trying to build someone who didn’t want to be built? Why did I spend years of my life trying to build a relationship with someone that didn’t want to have anything to do with me? Why did I have to spend years trying to make people understand me for who I am and not leave them to assume whatever they felt was who I am, because not everyone will like you, people will always talk regardless. Why did I spend my life working on a job, a deadbeat job not pursuing other opportunities and I realize now that there were many opportunities knocking on my door and I missed them, so Lord with every day I have left am going to do what the bible says and redeem the time, am going to redeem the time, captivate the time I have left and hope that my latter days will be greater than my former day and maximize every moment of my life. blog8

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WHAT ARE YOU BUILDING!

Image
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.” That is a guiding principle for me. Whether I am writing or editing, I seek to paint words with vivid brushstrokes, tapping into ideas through images, feelings through sensations, facts through well-mined research. Once I start a project, my focus goes into striking compelling notes of expression within a given equation. Let me tell you a story of a jazz artist named Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong applied to attend a music school. At the audition, he was given scales to sing, but he could only sing the first two notes properly and he was told he didn’t have what it takes to be a musician. Every individual in hearing this will cry for days for being rejected in their place of interest. Just imagine as a lady being rejected from Mac cosmetics for her inability to distinguish face corrector or a man being rejected from a 1 billion dollar contract he has been working on for years. Think of it, how
Read more

MY LOVE STORY

Image
You see, life is not a computer keyboard that you could get your type or a little mix of my taste that will undergo a more energetic reaction than potassium and water.  It was more like blessings where you could not get your little mix or type but the perfect thing for you cos His ways are greater. They were my wave in the seashore in which the sound of the wave on the shore makes my heart smile. Yeah, they are that good but not perfect. Just like a heart drawn on paper or rose grow on thorns, we have hiding scars like heartbreak , betrayal, loss of loved ones, downfalls, financial crises, insecurities, victims of rape, unstable homes, regrets, we were never understood, neglected, just to name a few, which makes us different, special, uniquely strong and who we are today through the help of God, for our past doesn’t define who we are but what we believe individually about us that defines who we are. “Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we nee
Read more

APPRECIATE HER!

Image
I have come to realize that sometimes people are so short-sighted that they cannot see their past I don’t understand how stupid you must have become, to forget how you made it this far. The past isn’t a darkness to force into the depths of oblivion, it is the path that helps you get past the hurdles you need to pass into a better future. I hope somewhere in this reminder, you were able to remember the glimpses and fractions of your past you have left behind. Maybe while you are trying to remember you would notice that woman that has cried and struggled, been mocked and ridiculed because she tried to give you the love she thought you deserved, because she thought you needed all the love she could give and you were willing to show her the same measure of love, but you didn’t have to, she loved you regardless. Maybe, maybe and if you remember you can unearth her from the corner of your mind you label “past”, maybe you will remember the pain you only heard about or the scars you saw but
Read more