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Come boldly to the throne of grace... Grace is defined as beauty, style, elegance, charm etc. For this purpose I will use the word beauty. Some time ago I attended a church conference and Miles Monroe was the guest speaker there. He said something that stuck in my mind ever since. He defined beauty as ‘complete’. Thus God has made everything beautiful in its own time. And also he as put eternity in the hearts of man is just that no one can find out what God does from beginning to end (paraphrased from Ecc 3:11). My point is, you came in as a complete package. You came in finished. Within you is hidden your terms of contract. In the contract of sale they say ‘no sale should take place unless the contract is perfecta’ which means the contract meets all the elements of a contract of sale. If these elements of sale are missing, the contract of sale fails to be. You can never have a contract of sale unless you identify the thing to the sold (the merx) and ascertain the price therefore. These are the essentials of the contract of sale. Unless these are met it cannot qualify to be called as such. No contracts of sale until all these elements are present. So are you. You do not become a human being until your elements of destiny are deposited in you. You are a growing complete package. A seed to fruit, maturing in time. Thus if God is still keeping you here, there is that element of perfecta about you. You are and you must be complete in time. Just in time before you die. Your environment and circumstances where never and should never be your source of calamity, but a road signs to your success. My wife one day came back from a work with a book she received from their team building session; it was titled “Who moved my cheese” well; if kids are addicted to ice cream I am addicted to books, I just want to read if a book looks and sounds good, intriguing, appealing or anything in between. Now after spending two days reading this book, I came to a full realisation that...”We spent too much time bemoaning what we do not have, lost or deprived opportunities, denied rewards, lack of appreciation for what we do, etc. We must define who we are by what others think or do to us. We put no effort in seeking the future. All we bemoan is what the past did not give us. Yes we feel we deserve it, it was unfair, we should be the ones in the big office, we should be the works making all that money, we should be the ones promoted, we should be this we should be that. But my question is what are we now? When you get to look at it, want we are stressing and fighting about is nowhere near what we can achieve, it is no were near what we can be. All it does is to remove responsibility from the hands our hands and put it in the hands of others. Yes it is their fault I have not achieved anything, they are
opportunists , they have taken all opportunity available to me. There is only ten litters of opportunity on earth and they drank all of it. Well my friend from the pond, have you ever considered how many litres are in the river, in the dam, in the sea in the ocean? Have you exhausted your sources opportunity? Do you really go to the right source? Have they exhausted all those as well? Excuse me my friend but I think you and I need to start thinking out of the cereal box and hop of the wheat field. We need to take charge. We need to stop putting our success in other people’s hands. Their hands are full with their success. Are you willing to take a chance and wait for them to finish with their success before they come in and do yours? You will be in for a very long wait! We should stop defining who we are by what other call us. The Nigerian people would call a person; “Hey Idiot ooh!” well it is your choice, you decided to answer “Yes sir! Yes mam!” or simply keep your head high and continue waking, your name is not “Idiot’ you are “Faith” you are the substance of those things hoped for. Your hope drives you. You are “Hopeful” you believe that the sun will shine again. You may be down but you are not out. As long as you are given another chance, you will make it. As long as tomorrow comes you will go on. As long as you breathe you will live. You acknowledge challenges, but you take charge. You are the captain of your own ship. You refuse to give control of your life to other the people. You are like that kid whose mother said in church, Tumi seat down and she seats an says “I may be seating but I am standing on the inside”. I was once told of this man who had a fear of flying. He then went up to the pilot and said to him; “sir please tell me how sure are you that you are going to land this thing and get us home safe. Can you guarantee me that you really know what you are doing? What assurance can you give me?” The pilot looked the man straight in the face, then smiled and said “I am in the plane, am I not...” Sure no one wants to crash the plane they are in. My question to you is; who is flying your plane?
Where are you now? Crashed or flying. Landed on the blue are strip after safe landing or are you buried under the ground after you have just crushed your plane in blame. What is it that you cannot do in life if you set your mind to do. How many times have you failed, if once that is 1, if ten times? that is 10, if hundred times? that is 100 a thousand times? that is 1000. Well you will be glad to know that the guy who invested the light bulb did not give up on the six hundred and sixty seventh time. He went on to try it again, and again up to the one thousandth time. How many times have you tried? You cannot live your life below the line. You cannot blame everybody and everything for whatever goes wrong in your life. What if you knew when you were going to die? Would you spend all this energy on what should have happened or would you try to do something to live an inheritance for your children. I am spurred on by the words which say, “A good man lives an inheritance for his children’s children” Picture this, an old man lying on his sick bed dying. Next to him stands his beloved daughter and his two grandsons, Pieter and James. He now says to his daughter who is in tears but understands that it is time, her father must go. She is rubbing his head gently and the good lawyer is seating there on the old man’s request. The old man needs to see his families reaction when his last will and testament are being read. “Well..” the old man says “You know how much I had always worked hard all my life and wanted to live you something, “ the daughter and two grandsons agree tearfully while listening to their dying beloved dad and grandfather. “To you Lettie I have left you my house in Sandton, Peter and James you now get to inherit my two sports cars, my publishing company and a plot in Hammaskrall” The room lights up as faces adore their father and grandfather for such a generous gesture. But before they can say thank you ... the old man clears his throat and say “Well as you know I had a drinking and gambling problem, the bank has repossessed all those asserts. I am really sorry, that is why my lawyer is seating there...” You can now imagine what happens next, the loving daughter’s hand can either move away from the dying father’s head with shouts and screams of “You useless evil old man you..” or you can hear her say “Father I understand, you have taught me to me self sufficient anyway, my businesses and investments are doing well, I have more enough to take care of the boys and even live their children two sports cars. I will repay the bank and buy back the plot in your honour!” As for the grand sons, can you imagine their faces when they heard of the sports cars, and how they suddenly lost them. They can either blame the old man or learn never ever to do that to your children. It is your choice, blame your past and walk away with nothing or change your name to Faith, say “I may be seating but I am standing on the inside”. God has deposited within you the power to be all you were created to be. The power to realise things no man has seen before. Power to draw a painting no man has seen before,
power to right a book no man has ever read before, power to unite the nation like no man has ever done before. Power to be the best you can be. You can either complain of not being the engine or be the best spark plug you can be. After all no engine will make it without a spark! Take charge! Sila!
Come boldly to the throne of grace... Grace is defined as beauty, style, elegance, charm etc. For this purpose I will use the word beauty. Some time ago I attended a church conference and Miles Monroe was the guest speaker there. He said something that stuck in my mind ever since. He defined beauty as ‘complete’. Thus God has made everything beautiful in its own time. And also he as put eternity in the hearts of man is just that no one can find out what God does from beginning to end (paraphrased from Ecc 3:11). My point is, you came in as a complete package. You came in finished. Within you is hidden your terms of contract. In the contract of sale they say ‘no sale should take place unless the contract is perfecta’ which means the contract meets all the elements of a contract of sale. If these elements of sale are missing, the contract of sale fails to be. You can never have a contract of sale unless you identify the thing to the sold (the merx) and ascertain the price therefore. These are the essentials of the contract of sale. Unless these are met it cannot qualify to be called as such. No contracts of sale until all these elements are present. So are you. You do not become a human being until your elements of destiny are deposited in you. You are a growing complete package. A seed to fruit, maturing in time. Thus if God is still keeping you here, there is that element of perfecta about you. You are and you must be complete in time. Just in time before you die. Your environment and circumstances where never and should never be your source of calamity, but a road signs to your success. My wife one day came back from a work with a book she received from their team building session; it was titled “Who moved my cheese” well; if kids are addicted to ice cream I am addicted to books, I just want to read if a book looks and sounds good, intriguing, appealing or anything in between. Now after spending two days reading this book, I came to a full realisation that...”We spent too much time bemoaning what we do not have, lost or deprived opportunities, denied rewards, lack of appreciation for what we do, etc. We must define who we are by what others think or do to us. We put no effort in seeking the future. All we bemoan is what the past did not give us. Yes we feel we deserve it, it was unfair, we should be the ones in the big office, we should be the works making all that money, we should be the ones promoted, we should be this we should be that. But my question is what are we now? When you get to look at it, want we are stressing and fighting about is nowhere near what we can achieve, it is no were near what we can be. All it does is to remove responsibility from the hands our hands and put it in the hands of others. Yes it is their fault I have not achieved anything, they are
opportunists , they have taken all opportunity available to me. There is only ten litters of opportunity on earth and they drank all of it. Well my friend from the pond, have you ever considered how many litres are in the river, in the dam, in the sea in the ocean? Have you exhausted your sources opportunity? Do you really go to the right source? Have they exhausted all those as well? Excuse me my friend but I think you and I need to start thinking out of the cereal box and hop of the wheat field. We need to take charge. We need to stop putting our success in other people’s hands. Their hands are full with their success. Are you willing to take a chance and wait for them to finish with their success before they come in and do yours? You will be in for a very long wait! We should stop defining who we are by what other call us. The Nigerian people would call a person; “Hey Idiot ooh!” well it is your choice, you decided to answer “Yes sir! Yes mam!” or simply keep your head high and continue waking, your name is not “Idiot’ you are “Faith” you are the substance of those things hoped for. Your hope drives you. You are “Hopeful” you believe that the sun will shine again. You may be down but you are not out. As long as you are given another chance, you will make it. As long as tomorrow comes you will go on. As long as you breathe you will live. You acknowledge challenges, but you take charge. You are the captain of your own ship. You refuse to give control of your life to other the people. You are like that kid whose mother said in church, Tumi seat down and she seats an says “I may be seating but I am standing on the inside”. I was once told of this man who had a fear of flying. He then went up to the pilot and said to him; “sir please tell me how sure are you that you are going to land this thing and get us home safe. Can you guarantee me that you really know what you are doing? What assurance can you give me?” The pilot looked the man straight in the face, then smiled and said “I am in the plane, am I not...” Sure no one wants to crash the plane they are in. My question to you is; who is flying your plane?
Where are you now? Crashed or flying. Landed on the blue are strip after safe landing or are you buried under the ground after you have just crushed your plane in blame. What is it that you cannot do in life if you set your mind to do. How many times have you failed, if once that is 1, if ten times? that is 10, if hundred times? that is 100 a thousand times? that is 1000. Well you will be glad to know that the guy who invested the light bulb did not give up on the six hundred and sixty seventh time. He went on to try it again, and again up to the one thousandth time. How many times have you tried? You cannot live your life below the line. You cannot blame everybody and everything for whatever goes wrong in your life. What if you knew when you were going to die? Would you spend all this energy on what should have happened or would you try to do something to live an inheritance for your children. I am spurred on by the words which say, “A good man lives an inheritance for his children’s children” Picture this, an old man lying on his sick bed dying. Next to him stands his beloved daughter and his two grandsons, Pieter and James. He now says to his daughter who is in tears but understands that it is time, her father must go. She is rubbing his head gently and the good lawyer is seating there on the old man’s request. The old man needs to see his families reaction when his last will and testament are being read. “Well..” the old man says “You know how much I had always worked hard all my life and wanted to live you something, “ the daughter and two grandsons agree tearfully while listening to their dying beloved dad and grandfather. “To you Lettie I have left you my house in Sandton, Peter and James you now get to inherit my two sports cars, my publishing company and a plot in Hammaskrall” The room lights up as faces adore their father and grandfather for such a generous gesture. But before they can say thank you ... the old man clears his throat and say “Well as you know I had a drinking and gambling problem, the bank has repossessed all those asserts. I am really sorry, that is why my lawyer is seating there...” You can now imagine what happens next, the loving daughter’s hand can either move away from the dying father’s head with shouts and screams of “You useless evil old man you..” or you can hear her say “Father I understand, you have taught me to me self sufficient anyway, my businesses and investments are doing well, I have more enough to take care of the boys and even live their children two sports cars. I will repay the bank and buy back the plot in your honour!” As for the grand sons, can you imagine their faces when they heard of the sports cars, and how they suddenly lost them. They can either blame the old man or learn never ever to do that to your children. It is your choice, blame your past and walk away with nothing or change your name to Faith, say “I may be seating but I am standing on the inside”. God has deposited within you the power to be all you were created to be. The power to realise things no man has seen before. Power to draw a painting no man has seen before,
power to right a book no man has ever read before, power to unite the nation like no man has ever done before. Power to be the best you can be. You can either complain of not being the engine or be the best spark plug you can be. After all no engine will make it without a spark! Take charge! Sila!
