Picture this!

A very angry guy sitting out in the balcony, the temperature at nearly freezing depths and its Sunday morning.

Well I guess, this abstract painting i just carried out in your mind might not satisfy your expectations but it really did happen and the victim was me. Now for security reasons I am going to refrain from specifying the exact date it happened. lol!

So that fateful Sunday morning, I was to wake up as early as possible to make it for service since I am a worker in church and apparently that’s how we roll! So I did make up my mind I was going to go to church early but unfortunately, unknown to me, my elder brother had also made up his mind to make sure I get to church early. Now, that doesn’t sound much like a tragedy but my brother is one of those guys that can really be annoying! (Bro, if you’re reading this, you can testify to this hard truth)

Sure enough I should have fallen through on my “resolution” but my saviour brother woke me us as early as possible so I could start preparations for church. It so turned out that i wanted a little snooze and my brother was not going to let me have it and yup! it infuriated me. I finally decided to wake up and say a prayer before starting my morning rituals but my brother who somehow figured it was okay to play songs off his phone at unbearably loud volumes for 5AM in the morning wouldn’t still let me. I tried to plead with him to quit the noise but he saw that as a plea to let me sleep so he ignored me and that was the little push to get me off the edge. Needless to say, I was really angry and in a bid to not do or say something I would regret in the future I decided to cool off. That was definitely a good decision but writing this now I can tell you my anger was pointless and in many definitions, childish too. I was lazy and my brother offered to help me. It didn’t matter how that help was going to come, all that mattered then was if i could accept it I could have broken the jinx on going late to church that same day.

You see this is a problem we all face everyday. We can proclaim at the rooftops how much we want to improve ourselves but at the slightest discomfort, we either flare up or give up. You see, the scriptures does not backup such behavior , it states:

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
 Proverbs 24:10 (King James 2000 Bible)

Hence in this scenario, your ability to be resolute when all things are set well for you does not show discipline rather when discomfort rears it ugly head, we can then distinguish the men from the boys. You see, with every real and positive change comes a certain level of discomfort. It always comes with the package and its free too. For me it was simple as my brother’s love for me but for others it may be more complex and/or difficult. Still the lesson stays on; look past the anger, discomfort and get your desired results. Quickly before I end this post, I’d like to say “All ye people that claim someone can correct you but should be careful to “use” the right language and delivery. While I do agree with your philosophy, I do advice, if solid, good and godly correction is handed to you in the “wrong way” please look past the annoyance you feel building within you and get the lesson because when such character or trait goes uncorrected, the potential disgrace on the way does not know anything about manner of approach.

I really do hope you learnt something…

Do drop a comment or a similar story if you’ve got one of such experiences.

Enjoy your day

Grace