BREAKING OUT OF THE BOX; RESHAPE

A shape does not change. That is why it is called Shape. Molded to be in one position or in a way forever. It can have many angles and sides but it cannot go beyond what it is. For example; a triangle cannot be a square no matter how big it might try to expand into. It is forever shaped to be a triangle.
Now picture this, environments or communities have their unique shape, and can be termed as Culture. It’s a mindset, a way of thinking, a view that makes the community what it is. This is applicable in every sector. There are organizational cultures, family traditions, school mottos, a country’s national anthem, generational trends, myths and legends, belief system and many more. It can be good, yet it can be limiting or disastrous in some cases and in some it has become strongholds that have ruined the people in it. In human beings, this culture can be termed as habits. Some good, some bad. When the bad ones become strongholds they hold on to its hosts tightly like a parasite or like a lion holding tightly to its prey. A shaking off can’t be easy, but isn’t impossible.
Beautiful as some of such cultures can be, we need to understand that life evolves. There is no generation that should remain the same, there needs to be changes, growth, progress, enlargement. If a generation refuses to evolve, it would be unable to achieve its great, unusual and spectacular stature it is meant to reach.

So, let us say the triangle tries to change to a pentagon having 5 sides; adding two more sides to it. That process is called the Breaking Out. It requires a change in view, perspective, disposition and it has to be done in a creative way. If this is done successfully, a new culture has been created. In life we all have to breakout from cultures within us and around us if we want to do what eyes have not seen or ears heard or mind conceive. We need to decide to reshape, reposition and realign and it must be done continuously. We need to consciously look within, eliminate thoughts that must be limiting us, that have stood as giant walls and see a tunnel that leads to light instead.
We must see past victories and shake them off to see greater victories ahead. We must challenge the way of thinking in our environment that deprives people from being all they should be and pull out such cultures/strongholds wherever it is rooted and replant the right thinking that brings good to all.
We must see differently, think differently and be different so that there will be differences in our generation that the new generation will use what we have achieved as a platform to rise higher in life. If we allow ourselves boxed, triangled, squared, pentagoned or shaped in a specific way, we will never know how else or better we could have been.
See it differently today! You are created for greatness more than you can ever think or say.

Inspired by the Holy Spirit
26th June, 2013.

THE SPEAKER, THE FIRST PARTAKER

Words can be tweaked, rearranged and shuffled to give different meanings and out of every word, other words can be formed, found and produced. For instance from the word “WORDS”, over 7 words can be formed from it: sword, rods, sow, rows, or, so, do etc. therefore, we can say, words produce fruits of more words. Out of our lips words come forth, it means our lips produce fruits which are words. There are different products formed, good or bad. What however determines the outcome is the source from where it proceeds from which is the heart.

A farmer who plants seeds considers many factors in planting. The ground tilled properly, the right amount of water and other necessities. As the farmer harvests, he is the first to be the partaker of what he harvests before selling to others.

It’s the same process with words spoken by everyone. You are the first partaker of the words you say. You eat of the fruits of your lips first before others eat it. So what do you produce out of your lips? Good fruits or bad fruits? If you lie, you lie to yourself first before you lie to others, if you slander, you are the first partaker, if you bless others you are first blessed, if you encourage others you are encouraged first (Pause and think calmly). This means whatsoever you say comes to you first.

So, what are you saying now?

Are you complaining, grumbling, murmuring, and worrying? It’s not right. God created our lips to give him thanks, glorify his name and acknowledge him as God. We all in diverse ways frustrate our own lives because of what we say. We are not cautious or conscious of what we say to ourselves and to others.

If you look back in your life, wherever you are now is a product of what you say to yourself through what you have said to others. If you feel that you have been very critical in your words towards others and you haven’t been speaking well of yourself, there’s a way out.

God created your lips and has the capacity to heal it and give you a new speech. Forgive yourself of all the bad words you have spoken to others and to yourself, repent of them and start afresh letting God speak through you always.

We are meant to encourage others when they are weighed down, we are meant to speak the truth all the time and let lies be far from our lips, we are not meant to slander others, speak evil or gossip about other people’s private lives or weaknesses.

The more we become conscious of this and speak kind word to others remembering we are speaking to ourselves then, we have already started change in our lives and in our society.

Speak-thinking! There is more gain in speaking well.

Have a great week!

Ciao,