There is a big difference walking on a straight line and on a circle. Life is a straight lineand not a circle.
There are many things that I feel I should have done way back then. Some I have started doing now, but the season, the context, the time, the environment are not the same as when the opportunities first presented themselves. I am not in regret but in thoughts…
Life is a straight line with a definite start and stop. The start mark is the day when you were born, and stop mark is the day you will die. Now depending on your age, you are somewhere in between those two marks. In my world of computers, life can be like a scroll bar; and this life’s scroll bar has a slider that moves only in one direction. The slider position represents where you are now, depending on your age.
Excuses will always be there for you opportunities wont!
Now pull yourself together and let’s take a deep dive.
Each day that we have encountered in life, each day that we have consumed off the line is never coming back again.
The things that happen, the experience we have, the opportunities we pursue, the accomplishments and failures we have, the resources around us, the seasons we are in, the people we connect to, the impact we create: most of these happen only once in life. We only have one childhood, one school life, one youth life, one college life, one adult life, one work life, and one Old age. These moments and seasons of life are not coming back. It’s a straight line, life is not a circle.
You are never going to have the same neighbors again, you are never going to the same school with the same classmates again, and you are never going to work in the same company with the same colleagues again. The bosses you have could be there for this season only, and soon they or you will leave the organization. Nothing is permanent. The people of influence that you have come across in life are not coming back in the same environment and context again.
Seize the moment
Appreciate every moment, celebrate those around you, help those in need and give honor to whom honor is due. Put your talents to work, take initiatives and give your best to everything because these moments are not coming back. Enjoy the fruit of your labor, take care of your body, maximize every situation because there is not any another like it.
Our God is of many chances, and opportunities might come back again but in different seasons, circumstances and environments. Some chances just comes once, never to be seen again.
At every stage, every age and every season of life there are things that if done then, will have a greater impact. If over analyzed, procrastinated and done later the impact is no longer the same. Seize the moment and make your life extra ordinary.
what if?
what if you learnt to play a music instrument back then when you felt the passion? What if you were there for someone when you should have? What if you wrote blogs and books from way back then? What if you went for trips, showed love to your siblings, took an evening class, composed that new song and wrote down your vision? What if you shared and helped those who were in need when it was in your power to do so? What if you started that business that would make a difference? What if you focused on your strengths and abilities? What if you took effort to discover identify, clarify and make good use of your gifts and talents? Now and not later?
So if you are waiting to do something later, i wonder how and what the impact will be? We should be doing whatever we feel we need to do now and not then. Like the…
“sons of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what israel ought to do, 1 Chronicles 12:32
It’s often and truly said that “we are not preparing to live. We are already living”. As the days counts away let’s not forget to make the days count. Live the moment. Life is happening now!
I don’t want to get to heaven with my life full of unrealized visions and dreams, full of business that could have changed the world . I don’t want to be ignorant of the people around me because every moment is precious and it’s never coming back.
There has always been a great purpose for you at each stage and age of life, there is a reason and a purpose why you live in your particular neighborhood, in this time and age and not the past nor the future. There is a reason why you have the people you have in your life, there is a reason why you are in the career you in now and a reason why you are at your current place of work.
Acts 17:26-27 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live
What things do you Sense God telling you to do at this season? what are you going to do about them?
Ecc 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
Published by Benny Njoroge – ” I love learning something new every day and making someone see the hope to hop yet another day”
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