Life is a gift

A clever man sees the world as the survival of the fittest, but a wise man knows there are no fittest who are mortals.

I have learnt a very long time ago not to hold anything too tightly, you will either break them or they will leave you with a scar when they finally escape your grip. Anything that you lost was never yours, if it’s yours, it will come back to you, but first, you have to move on. The best way to gain all that you have lost is by moving on and ahead. If you grieve so much for the past, you will never see new opportunities, new joy, new life, new course; you will live on the schedules of yesterday. Know this, we can’t protect anything in this world, not even our lives, neither can we save people or anything that is of this world. The best we can do is to make good use of what ever is given to us for the time that it has been given to us. Nothing is a do or die affair, because even we, were brought and born into this world without our consent, meaning that the world is not our property.

Life is a gift and every single person was created with a single purpose. For the fact that you are still alive means that the one who brought you without your consent is keeping you, still, for a purpose. Understand that you don’t have the power to keep or save anything. God is the only one who can take, and he is the only one who can keep. I say this from personal experience. When I look back in retrospect, about my life, I realize how powerless we are in ensuring security in anything that exists in this world. Every thing happens according to the will of the one who has brought you and me even without our consent. We must serve our purpose and let go of anything that has gone. I will now tell you a bit of my story and why I stopped bothering over earthly security.

1997, in a village farm, I was attacked by a huge, dangerous snake. That I survived that attack wasn’t by my making. That might look very funny to you but look at this next one.

1999, in the city of Abuja, I was stricken by osteoporosis leading to a major fracture on my leg which kept me on a hospital bed for over a year without setting foot on ground. Sadly, less than two months after I was discharged I lost the one person I thought I could never live my life without, the one person that has stayed and cried besides me for over a year while I moved from death to life on a hospital bed, the one person that spoke hope into my ears. I lost my mom. I felt the world busting over my head, crumbling over my shoulders, and breaking under my feet. Hope was dying and as if that wasn’t enough my dad lost his job, and so, life went from bad to worst in a family of six (6). How did I survive? It wasn’t by my making.

Ones, I escaped a hazardous petrol fire. It wasn’t by my making.

2011, I survived two terrible automobile crash, came out alive and unharmed. How did I survive? It wasn’t by my making.

So tell me, was my life a matter of luck? No, it wasn’t luck, the purpose that I serve demanded this procedures and that my life should remain and be untouched. Don’t get it twisted, I am not immortal, one day I will leave, maybe in my old days or even sooner. But right now, what I must do is to serve my purpose; also, you must discover your purpose and serve it. Now I can tell you to move on because even I have moved on.

It is purpose that defines us, keeps us, binds us, separates us, and molds us. It is purpose that makes the world go round. The world is purpose.

So then, if you are out there bothering over money, property, loved ones, or even life. I highly recommend that you embrace freedom and concentrate on the purpose for your existence. Leave every other thing for the one who has the power to take and give, leave it all for the one who has brought even you into existence without your consent. Leave it to God. Believe it or not, it is God who creates purpose, substance, life and even death. And if you really do not believe in God, here is a saying “live as if there is God, if there is God, then you will gain eternity, if there is no God, then, you lose nothing”.

Do not forget that your decisions in life are very vital to the success of your purpose and that of the world at large. God made you in his own image not because it was fun creating you, but because he wants you to govern his affairs here on earth; he wants you to be an ambassador, doing his will and only his will.

I’d like to share with you what triggered this write-up. 30minuits ago, before I started on this article, I lost something very valuable to me. I mistakenly deleted a folder containing a number of pages for a book I am working on, I didn’t have a backup. But I have moved on because I know that the same mind that wrote them can do more and even better, though, the mistake of not having a backup have been thoroughly noted. But the lost pages cannot and would never stop me from completing the book; neither will it stop the book from being what it was meant to be.

Finally, I would say this again, “I have learnt a very long time ago never to hold anything too tightly, you will either break them of they would leave you with a scar when they finally escape your grip”.

I hope this article affect your life in positive ways. Amen.