It’s Impossible To Serve/Please Everyone
Seek improvement and receive wisdom when it is presented, but digesting every opinion and attempting to conform to every ideology will leave you unhappy and unfulfilled in your spiritual and general life.
Be sure you are pleasing God and your heart. (Proverbs 15:31, John 12:43, Proverbs 29:25)
There’s No Shortcut To Excellence
Yes, you can learn quick strategies for smarter work. No, you can’t skip the process of growth.
For Spiritual life and general living, consistent small steps are required for growth.
Fruits don’t just show up on a tree, babies don’t just walk, grey hair do not just appear, excellence doesn’t just emerge.
The end of the process is most times guaranteed, you will eventually finish well. (Galatians 7:8, Proverbs 21:5)
Can I trust you?
Trust you enough to behold my nakedness,
To come before you bare-
With engraved scars and a broken soul,
Can I trust you will hold my brokenness,
And make a sculpture out of me,
Can I trust you?
Trust you enough to let go,
And drown me into your vessel,
Guiding me through the waves life throws at me,
Can I trust?
Enough to abandon all I have built,
Pillars of sweat and blood,
And follow you to the promised land,
Though alien to my eyes but familiar to my heart,
I hear how it calls out to my spirit,
And sings sweet melodies of what my future would be like!
This rhythm soothes my soul,
But fear has gripped me by my spine
And has crippled my faith and numbed my feet
So I ask, Dear Lord,
If I give you my hands to hold,
Can I trust you?
That you will never let go
Until these songs of the future
Become a reality I dance to!
Can I trust you?
Adeleye Olaoye
©2021
Self-responsibility Will Come Through For You
Many times, it’s not the people you are trusting to help you secure a job/your future that will come through.
Also, blaming mistakes or incapabilities on other people/things does not fix the matter.
Understanding that you are responsible for each outcome empowers you to do and give your best.
It also empowers you to step out of your comfort zone and seek growth.
Be courageous in the knowledge that God is with you and His thoughts for you are great. (Isaiah 41:13)
Anger Never Does Good
Wrath is not of God.
While anger is a valid emotion that can make things happen, it also causes emotional reactions which are many times foolish and regrettable. (Proverbs 19:11, Proverbs 29:11)
When I thought about the word
My heart leapt in silent laughter
as if to share in quiet joy my awe
At how I once believed readiness was a chapter
That I needed to attain to do more
Such an appalling misrepresentation of the matter
To be ready is to be a willing one
To serve opportunity’s timing now not after
To date today and not cheat with tomorrow
To learn while you grow from experience gathered
To live prepared for the much you know and the few you control
And ready you will always be, if you follow this pattern.
– Ezeonyeka Godswill
(c) 2021
A decision is not glamorous
It is not about the raised chest of the champion as he declares his conquering conquests to an adoring crowd
It is a lot more than that with a lot less glamour
For a decision reduces a man to nothing more than his resolve
To stand
To stand when falling is convenient
To stand when running makes more sense
To stand even though he lacks the strength
A decision is both a man’s greatest defense as much as it is his greatest flaw for when life comes at him and strips him of all he once had
When life takes the glories in the alluring arms of yesterday
When life sails the praises of men to the next big sensation
When life takes one last bow as it exits in that fateful breath
May that man find I pray, a grateful appreciation that his resolve birthed the life he desired and his decision though tried and tested remained true
– Ezeonyeka Godswill
(c) 2021
Happiness
is feeling the strain leave your face
letting go and watch your grip fade
joy makes it way like a river welling from your insides to your heart and registers a smile
By the grace of God…
you are here
you can rest
The battle is won
the work is done
– Ezeonyeka Godswill
(c) 2021
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