WHAT WILL USE YOUR TIME?
May problems not use our time. Two things will use your time. Problems or your calling. The initiative of Satan and his attack on mankind is to ensure it is problems that use our time. He will keep you busy in the wrong things but which are necessary for human survival on earth.
He'll keep you busy searching for greener pastures and seeking for food. If this is all you ever use your time and life to pursue, problems have successfully used your time.
I found out that problems will never finish. The hunt for food, clothing and shelter will continue to maraud the heart of mankind. As a matter of fact, that's why mankind cheat, embezzle or even kill. But life is more than raiment. Jesus said that. He said we should look beyond this ephemeral pursuit.
If all we ever live for is what to eat or what to wear, where will our definitive purpose or the calling put in our soul be? Humanity is not ordinary. God sent us here to live the God ordained life. The life we live and the steps we carry ought to be documented ones as already slated by God. But, is that so?
You may pursue food - what to eat and what to wear until you're utmostly entangled and your time is gone. What all of us have is time. The more I celebrate new birthdays, the more I scrutinize if I'm at all fulfilled. I just found out there are more grounds to cover yet it seems to my own sight (not faith) that only little time is left. I'm talking of time of usefulness on earth.
The Lord told me this evening that the wise are those who know where they should be and contrary to any opposition or want goes there to thrive and begin to survive.
As a matter of fact, I count you blessed and happy as God does if contrary to what the economy, parents, peers and other influences are saying you could go into your definitive purpose, calling or passion.
The conspiracy of the devil and life will be that you don't fulfill your passion and calling. It may be burning in you and beckoning you to come but if you never walk that road, you can never, will never know real joy or satisfaction.
Many of us are on the wrong jobs. We know because we have no joy doing them or let's say our joy are mist like. It appears in the morning and dissipates in the evening. That can't be your calling.
Calling is passion. You don't close from passion. Even if you close from work at 5pm daily, if that job is what you're crafted to be in, work will still continue at home. Those who are in a dead end are those praying that closing time will soon strike. They are those seeking for unnecessary holidays and vacations. A man of the calling doesn't vacate and he's the one who actually lives longer. That's because of the energy influence generated to keep him going, desiring life and more from life. They are the strong willed ones and their decision to continue always lead to a release of permission to stay, stay and stay longer.
I have not found anything else as replenishing, renewing, energizing, rewarding as following one's passion.
You see, the problem many are facing now is how to go and face their passion (which calling is). But the question is how will they survive starting from the bottom again? This is somebody who has been earning #450,000 that God is calling into full time ministry in the Nigeria of today.
He has heard God but responsibility and the large appetite he has cultivated over the years is now slaughtering him. The wife is saying, "who will pay the school fees and who will pay the house rent? What will my family say?" Many people be like that. They find to go eventually into their calling and passion a big problem.
Those people know their calling but TO GO is the problem. Over and over, you will see unfulfillment written all over them. A vision has been caught surely. She wants to set up a Fashion Outfit but she's afraid of how it might turn.
If you'll either have faith enough or be crazy enough to dare it, only then will you see the salvation of the Lord!
Unless you're in this position, you'll think it's easy just detaching and following after your passion like that. If that were so, many people won't still be there waiting for the right time. And I tell you, that right time might not come. You do not have all day. Your brand, content and ministry must be touched but it all begins with starting even before we discuss DILIGENCE and present to you COMMITMENT.
Permit me to address ministers now. Let's say you're such man who earns that much like I stated earlier, nothing is wrong if for the purpose of the new passion you need to follow you cut down your expenses.
I'm not seeing any mockery in that and I care less if I'm mocked over that. It is what I can do I will do. If your children are in money collecting private schools, it is no reproach if you relocate them to less expensive ones. This applies to ministers who are especially founders and are starting out and do not want to be reputed for borrowing as time goes on. Ministry at the on start is not always interesting especially if you're not a paid minister.
However, you have another option. If you have proven God over the years before crossing over to full time ministry and you personally know He's the same as He's always been, then you may become the brutal one who by the handle of faith knows God will meet all your needs. David said the God who gives him victory over the paws of the lion and the bear would give him over that uncircumcised Philistine as well.
But first of all, that was no mere confession. It's coming from a man who has been on the journey. A man who has experienced it all and who could call God faithful! That's because he has over time experienced him to be faithful.
Nothing promises real adventure and liberty than pursuing passion or purpose.
When you're in the wrong place, on the wrong job or in the wrong field, you're always like a man that's shut in a place with little or no air to breathe. You'll feel you're dying and that you need a saving but somehow someway, you just don't know how to escape or let's say, you're not courageous enough to escape. I'll say, call the call and stop the stop.
I want to be on a job, in a work and in a sphere where problems are motivation to rush to the next day's work.
A place I could see as my world, the sphere of light where I gain practical experience that I may not even be able to verbalize or communicate. However, I know I have inner joy, energy, contentment and approval of God.
When you've missed it, you surely know. Fat salary is not always a sign of fulfilment.
I know people who are leaving the public view, fat salaries, notable sites to relocate to lesser esteemed ones to start dancing to the tune of their souls - their callings.
Brothers and sisters, men and brethren, this is no joke. Stop the pursuit of food (only). Leave that and cross to the sole pursuit of purpose. It may be hard to fend there but lean your life to what it avails you. Let your wife adjust to that. Don't be ashamed. If you are, endure the suffering. Walk this less travelled road as highlighted by the iconic poem of Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken, 1916) and you'll have the testimony of having chosen differently and rewardingly one day.
I pray for you all, God shall indeed be your exceeding great reward! It will be something more than gold for you all at the end of it all. Believe in God and Believe in yourself!
Olusola ADEJUMO,
M'Wings.
Morning Wings Ministry, Nigeria.
+234 81 3704 6812
morningwingministry@gmail.com
27/07/2023
