“Success is not necessarily more money or more material things, it is an accomplishment of a journey or purpose. It is a feeling of actualization and living a life of significance.“
Therefore, until we understand the essence of our purpose in life, we will always seem to be disappointed because 98% of the time we take steps and plan our ways and ask God to answer our prayers, but God can be said to work thus – “Unless the Lord builds a house, those that labour, labour in vain.”.
Many times, our expectations are frustrating not because we are not good, but because the good God does not want us to embark on that journey. It may also be because of certain things you have done that are influencing how things work or don’t work out for you.
There may also be certain prayers you have prayed that God keeps saying no to. You must understand that this no is also an answer to prayers.
To understand our purpose, the ultimate question to ask is ‘Who is my adviser? Who is my counsellor?’.
This is because wherever you find yourself today, whether in marriage or business or life in general is a result of either a series of decisions or a series of disappointments.
For example, If you have been born into a violent family, love will not be a necessary thing. You will naturally develop characters devoid of love and if you were brought up in a family that raises children to be spoilt rotten, this has the tendency to determine the kind of life you’ll live when you grow up. If you grew up in lack, even when you have money in future, you might still have a poverty mentality. You might hoard money, save money without taking care of yourself, etc.
Also, the way you are, your nature, interpersonal relationships, business, etc, your children will always subconsciously pick it up.
When you look back far back into your life – 10 years, 6 years, 3 years, just as there are aspects of our lives we cannot remember, there are also decisions that have been taken for us in these times without our knowledge. Just as there are people who are speaking into our lives, there are people making decisions over our lives and these people are like our counsellors.
Even though we cannot determine the families that we are born into, the early days of our upbringing determine who we are.
Very good counsellors can bring you to the safety of God’s purpose in your life, BUT bad counsellors can destroy the very fabric of your life, Failure however, is also the same.
What then is the first step to achieving anything in life?
Truly Recognizing what you are starting on (your foundation) and building on it positively with help and direction from God.
Proverbs 15:22 – Secure and wise counsel help our life’s purposes to be established.
Conclusion
God cannot build on rubbish- The rubbish dump, no matter how nice, packaged or modernized it looks, no one in their right senses will get there and start constructing a palace.
You must first be willing to start building so that God can bless the WORKS of your hands. God blesses our WORKS and not our THOUGHTS OR WALLOWING.
Further Reading
Galatians 4:1-2
Romans 6: 18-19
Prayers
- May you not Labour in vain.
- May God bless the works of your hands.
- May God give you the grace to leave a good inheritance for your Children.
- May God give your children grace to manage their inheritance wisely.
- May God give you good ideas and open doors of opportunities as you commit your ways unto him.