simplicity, love...

Life has become very complicated, it is no more as simple as it used to be, thus complicated. A lot of things now complicate our lives and enslave us. What happened to just living and loving, appreciating what you have and being thankful?

We live to gain wealth now, do whatever it takes to get rich and gain status and respect. The more you get the more you want and the more you push and toil to get. we even forget to take time and enjoy what we have already with thanksgiving. Today we get parents leaving behind their families to study in far places for 10 years to gain a lot of qualifications and be well respected and honored in their places. Money controls people's lives and pulls them up and down making them forget their loved ones, reaping a mother from her child and breaking marriages. It is no more something that made things easier but it makes everything complicated and even painful.

Money has polluted even the most beautiful thing of all, love. Love used to be an innocent thing that required no condition, it just took the heart and letting it flourish without struggle. But now we have socio-economic class, education and even background setting conditions for love. People now marry for what they can gain, its no more love that brings people together. "He is a good man and i love him, but what can he give me?" isn't love enough? isn't love the requirement for marriage? The words "love you forever" have no meaning anymore, its "love you as long as you are rich forever".

What happened to simplicity? was it not working? It managed to keep the love of a husband and a wife burning, to keep families together and siblings intact .But now you find siblings fighting and plotting one another's death over spilled milk because the simplicity of love and just having each other does not exist anymore. It has been replaced by greed, competition and power.
Love while you still can, appreciate what you got and those around you. Money cannot buy happiness, it only turns one into a greedy monster. Give thanks for all you got and let it bring you closer to your loved ones not apart. Learn to minister through love, Unconditional love. This world is full of surprises, you ill never know what tomorrow brings, that is if tomorrow comes!!!

Read the Bible for yourself

e need to learn to read the Bible for ourselves. Read the scripture and let it talk to your life. We need to read the Bible for ourselves and not rely on other people, read and ask the Holy spirit to explain the scriptures for you, not always relying on other people. The word of God is a guide, a campus for our lives, it should direct our path. Psalm 119:105"Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path."

We should dig into the scriptures ourselves and get the message and with the guide of the Holy spirit practice it in our own lives. What you receive from the Bible is not exactly what i will receive because our lives are different and we need different things, so we might read the same scripture and get different interpretations of it depending on the season of our lives. Not reading the Bible for yourselves can be very dangerous especially when you get to meet up with people who lie and cheat others using the Bible. Read for yourself and get wise.Do not be deceived. watch the following videos...

Where are you headed???

Life can be so many things, meaningful especially when things are going well, depressing when you are going through fiery challenges and just okay when there isn't much pressure in your everyday life. Its a roller coaster, different speed at different parts of the ride, but even a roller coaster is ridden for fun, but why are we doing life? why are we living? where are we going with his life? why do we have to go through such traumatizing experiences? for what?

You see when you do not know why you have to do something, its totally meaningless and everything leads to weariness. The reason why we suffer in life is because we lack direction, so it appears that difficulties is only torture in our lives as we never get to see the benefits of the difficulties in our lives.Some of these challenges and pains are brought about by abuse, we tend to abuse our lives because we do not know why we are living.

"When purpose is unknown, abuse in inevitable"

When you know why you are living, you will have a direction at least to where you are going and you will be able to trace your challenges t your goal, where you are going.It is when you know where you are headed that you will realize that all your challenges are equipping you for what is ahead of you. You will realize that the challenges no matter how cruel they may seem, they are all working together for your good Romans 8: 28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Nothing JUST happens, but all things happen for a reason, but you will never know why they have to happen because you do not relate them with anything, but when you relate them with where you are going, you will know that the certainly is a reason for everything happening the way they are happening and at that time as well.

And you will even get to appreciate challenges when you know where you are headed because you know you definately need the training if you want to do the best job when the time comes. So, WHAT DRIVES YOU? where are you going? why do you exist? what is you purpose in this life? Stop living aimlessly and working hard for perishables, it is not a wise investment. Rather invest in things that are priceless and will last forever. Matthew 6: 20 "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal."Stop being myopic and look beyond what you see. Colossians 3:1-2"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Stop living and live for God, stop being just a Christian and be a kingdom minded Christian, desire to see the kingdom of God advance!!!