YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!

I read a book by Myles Murone. In that book, he said something;
“You have no right to die with someone else’s property.”

When I first read it, I was a little confused. Someone else’s property? When did I collect someone’s property? I mean, why would I be with someone’s property?

Then it dawned on me.

If nothing, the story of Adam and Eve taught us something about human existence. It made us understand the principle of continuity.

A human life is not just one life. It’s a plethora of lives. I began to look at the lives of people differently when I realized that it’s not just a man I’m looking at. Rather, it’s a generation.

Adam and Eve didn’t understand this principle. If they did, I bet they wouldn’t have made the terrible mistake they made. They taught they were just satisfying their hunger but they didn’t know they were putting creation in bondage.

A man is like a chain, continuous. What you do has a high tendency to affect the next generation. What you believe in has a high tendency to affect your generation. How you live your life has a high tendency to affect your generation.

Being rich is the least of the issue here. Each generation has a choice to invest in themselves and be wealthy. Each human has the liberty to work and fend for himself.

The point here is your investment in yourself.

When I say investment, I mean your values, principles and beliefs. Many half baked people in the world are products of parents who never had good values and never inculcated them in their kids.

Many teenagers who suffer from trauma, depression and low self esteem are products of parents who do not have strong values concerning these issues or do little to teach their kids what power they have.

You must have met people who do not believe in themselves or people who feel less than human. You must have met people who hate a particular sex or people who do not believe in God.

These are just backdrops of the failures of their parents.

Parents have everything to do with your self confidence and your understanding. Sometimes, it’s not that these parents do not know these things. Sometimes, it’s just that they never actively pass them on to their children.

What you believe, you practice. What you practice, you actively pass on to people around you. Many people say things but do not actively prass them on.

When you practice something, it becomes real to everyone around you. Your actions pass on confidence, courage, obedience, patience, peace and faith to people.

What happens when you do not practice these things actively is that your children or people around you begin to pick up character traits from anything or anyone around them.

Your actions, decisions and beliefs do not affect you alone. They go as long as affecting the next ten generations. In as much as an individual is just an entity, your actions stay in the air like incense and rubs off on everything flowing from you.

When you’re doing anything, think deeply about the consequences before you act. Do not sell off your generation for a few minutes of pleasure. Pleasure is one of the crafty tools the devil uses to deceive people out of their portion.

Pleasure lasts for a few minutes but good deeds live on forever.

There is something that is deposited in you before you emerged on earth. If you do not find them out and actualize them, you have robbed the world of their profits.

If you do not actualize the goals of God for your life, you have left as vacuum in life. That vaccum can be filled with anything; evil pleasures and sin.

At this stage of reading, I don’t expect you to keep saying “My life is my own.” Sadly, it’s not. Every man is a sacrifice for the next generation.

Life is like as baton to be passed. How you run your race would determine how well you would pass on and how well your fellow up would do.

You might think I’m joking but when you look at the life of Adam and Eve and compare it with that of Jesus, you can understand that life is indeed a chain. You’re only one piece but instrumental to the next.

At this age of your life, you should be;

1. Gaining knowledge for the future. Knowledge is fortification against ignorance and ‘stories that touch the heart’.

2. Deeper intimacy with God. God is the only one you need to be a success in life. Any other thing is an attachment. You were created by Him and only in Him do you have essence. Without Him, you can do nothing.

3. Build meaningful relationships. Men are instrumental to your walk with God and your quest for knowledge. No man is an island.

Do not think you can do anything and walk away with it. You’ll stay in hell and watch the evil you did ruin the life of innocent people. We met life this way.

You either fight for your portion or give up like a weakling. Jesus fought, Abraham fought. Elijah fought. Peter fought. Pail fought. James fought. Fighters are successful men.

Why can’t you fight?

#GrowingInGrace