Do Not Confuse Wisdom With Greatness

Greatness and wisdom are outrightly two different things. Never you associate greatness with wisdom. The great can be great and lack understanding, just like the foolish man in the Bible that depended on his goods only and found in his eyes no place for God.







"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? " (Luke 12:19-20).








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"The fool has said in his heart: there's no God."






That fool could be a leper, a poverty stricken fellow or a very stickenly rich man or politician!




As long as he has said in his heart "There's no God", he is a fool.



(JOB 32:9)







Do not always associate age with wisdom, because the FOOL hath said "There's no God", and that FOOL could well be an aged man.






As a believer, when you think of the GUILT, SHAME and REPENTANCE with weepings that you have to go through; you wouldn't want to fall into that BESETTING SIN of yours again.




But in case you d; please say:






"I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore, that which I see not teach thou me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more." (JOB 32:31-32)

The Birthing Of Inspiring Quotes

In our world today, we have quotes on almost every and anything.




In this article however, we want to look at how spiritual christianly quotes are birthed.







JOB 32:8 - "But there's a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding."






Elihu the younger of Job's friends was speaking here. Analysing that verse, we see that there is a connection between man's spirit and inspiration and understanding.




* Spirit


* Inspiration


* Understanding




This tells us that understanding is the result of the inspiration of God. This is one of Biblical's definition of the word "understanding".




Meaning,

when God's inspiration lights on the spirit of man, the result or outcome is a deep wealth of understanding.






This is how powerful Christian quotes are birthed.




It's easy to have tons of Christian quotes when you have an inspiration from God. Any quote that lacks understanding is thus, because there was no inspiration from the Almighty.





Do not go for quotes, rather go for inspiration. To get understanding, seek the inspiration of the Almighty.





God inspire, men reads it from earth's realm as an 'understanding'.




How much understanding you have about God is directly proportional to how much inspiration you recieve from the Almighty through your spirit.






The spirit of man is the birthplace of the inspiration of God, and understanding is it's rewards.




You do not struggle or labour to get understanding. Understanding is a reward, it's like a salary or a wage. You toil during the days, and at the end of the month you're paid your salary: so it is! You toil and work to get inspiration from God (not in the physical sense of struggling per say) and your salary afterwards is understanding.




The toil you put in, is growing your fellowship with God in prayers and visible study of God's word. Thereafter you plunge deep to fetch from the wells of the inspiration of the Almighty. Then you relax as your pay of understanding flows through the same channel: your spirit.





Many believers are too lazy to work and wait for their pay, instead they go about 'stealing' from the sweat of others.




The same applies here. What we call Rhema today that someone gets and everyone is quoting and running after is actually someone's pay for the toil and work he had done.





Do not be a 'thief' in the kingdom. Do not look for Rhema outside, look for Rhema within. Do not wait to feed on people's inspiration and understanding to feed from. Dig your own well and feed from your own inspiration. Inspire yourself!




One of the best ways to become great is to inspire yourself! Get your own inspirations and let the world pay you to read them, rather than paying others to read theirs!




You can! Except you don't have a spirit, hence you're not a man, and shouldn't be reading this.




For as long as you're a man, the Bible says:




"There's a spirit in man!






Spirit is all you need to connect to the Almighty for an inspiration. He does not work with flesh. He has no business with the flesh. He inspires men's spirit.




Be inspired!

Discordance In Harmony

What life really mean?




As simple as this question is, it's one of my deepest thoughts that always intrigue me whenever I give time to meditate on it.





So let's look at the SIMPLE life of a man. Shall we?





First, he's born. Then he grows. Gets education (at least in our contemporary system). After school. Gets a job. Then gets married. Have kidsss...and what next? He dies!





Haa! Just like that? That's all there is to a man?





It thrills me how life seems so simple when viewd from an elevated plane.





Benny Hinn said something about what another man said: "Man is like a speck of dust when viewd from the moon."





Imagine that!
A speck of dust?
......





"That's not fair!", you'ld say.





But, what's really fair in this life?
Is it the job you applied for and you were turned down because you refused to go to bed with the boss, or you refused to give bribe?





Tell me, what's fair?





At least for us in Nigeria here, we know almost everything in this country is not fair, starting from even the very free 'Good morning' you get from even children alone, you'll know that life isn't fair, because the sound of the greeting would be so twisted to something like:





"Goomonyii"
and for others its
"Guumorr", you would think they were abusing you.





Not to talk of mentioning the dead undue 'unfairness' from noisy politrickians, (permit me please..) lying lawyers (shysters if you like), fake pastors at every bend, bad government, bad economy, even out-of-gauge life-snuffling sunlight...





So you see everything is unfair in life.





Man (as I was saying), is like a speck of dust really.





All the university, church, Job, marriage, sex, kids, and the rest of them, will just end on a fateful day.





On that day, man wil actualy know his real destiny.





A man gives or leaves an alibi to stand as a disguise so that you (that is if you're not a smart lawyer enough) would never know he committed a crime!





Yes! That's it! Our earthly destiny is like an alibi.





It helps us cover our real tracks!
And whilst all we see aound us is our destiny, we forget that our destiny is just an alibi. We'll get caught soon, 'cos one day the great jugde from whom no truth is withholden will stand and ask from you the truth, and life can no longer have a grip on you, and what happens!!!?





You're cold. You're moved to an
ambulance. Next, mother earth welcomes you, and the light of planet earth cease to shine on you for heavy thudding sounds rents the air as earths itself seal your tomb, and you're consumed in darkness. Still and stiff.





And, were is the youthful lifestyle then?





Were are the times when a bottle of Fayrouz would mean an insult on you. If you're not done with half a crate, you're going no where!
Were are the times when you moaned as you locked yourself under those thick sheets with a flesh that is not yours, deep in emotions and deathly passion?

Knock on those graves, and let the dead hear.

Wake up from your death she waits for you under the sheets, naked and bare. The heat is terribly on, ravish yourself just one more time.

Ho..! One more bottle and the day's gone...arise, the barman offers three bottles for the pay of one.

The rains has beat hard upon the crates. The sun has turned its contents to grey!
Yet! You refuse to break loose the cords of death and have just one more seep!

Whereas, your alibi stands on the shores that divides earth and eternity.
The chains of an unseen hand bounds it up, and never again will it stand to fool the world.

Now you're immortal, and you face the Immortal.
Your rags fouls the air. The scent is too clean to harbour your filth.

The Judge rises to give His last judgement, and you're defenceless.
Your alibi wouldn't even dare break loose to shield you.

You judged. Sentenced to death. An immortal death.
You die a billion times, yet you never die at all.

Immortality is your nature.
Earthly death was only the vehicle that ushered you to your REAL destiny.

A destiny you choose by yourself, with your hands, with your brains intact.

No one ever imposed it on you. You enjoyed it, and to ward off offending charges, you simply put there an alibi to cover your tracks.

Won't it be unfair to serve you what you never asked for?




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