31/10/2024
📍 One of the skills that we need to learn as Christians is the skill of looking beyond our current situation. This is a critical skill that we see Jesus himself practicing and then we need to emulate.
Learn to see yourself today through the lens of your future you and not just who you are today. So where do you see yourself in the next five, 10 years? How is that person you're going to be? In those years to come, how is it going to live today? What decisions is he going to make today? You need to look at how the decisions you're making now is going to affect what you're going to look like in those five, 10 years time, because if you make the wrong decisions today, it's either going to delay the fulfillment of that person you're looking to be, or totally make it impossible to be that person. Make your decisions today as if you're already in your future.
If you're going to become a public figure, like in a few years to come. You need to consider your privacy, the kind of information that you let out.
Are they information that would affect you when everybody knows you, something that can be used to haunt you or when they are in the news, you're not going to be happy about it.
You need to make your today, work for your tomorrow by the decisions that you make.
Regardless of what your today is, don't get stuck in it. Keep building, keep doing things that will make your tomorrow better. Don't be distracted about the, challenges of today. Keep your eyes on the future and see what you can do today that will make tomorrow better.
Think about tomorrow, even when it seems you can't cross today.
A perfect example is Jesus Christ, see, he had a problem of the physical pain he was going to bear on the cross, the emotional torments that he had even received already. See, and that was going to be heightened, that was a problem for him and he was a Gethsemane, he had sweats in his body that were like blood but he had to look beyond that. He had to look beyond what he was feeling at that moment. He had to look at After the cross, he had to look at me, you, the eternal life that he's going to bring forth after his death and resurrection.
And because he was able to look beyond the current, he continued. The Bible says he endured the cross and he is the author and the finisher of our faith. The same way he has done it. That is how we also should look beyond our current and focus on our future.
So that we can cross through today.
As a bachelor, when I was much younger, there were times that I didn't even have food. It's like I was broke. And even when I got money, I still had to buy data. Why? Because that is the only way I could invest into my future. I was still building websites. I was learning. I was doing things even without having enough to eat because I can't lose today and also lose tomorrow. I can't not have today and also not have tomorrow. If you don't have fruits as a farmer, if all you have is seeds, then you plant them. So at least you'll be able to eat tomorrow rather than having seeds, not planting them, not having food today, not having food tomorrow, not ever having food.
And one of the first things I bought was a power generating set, what we call generator, in Nigeria, because that was very pivotal to my success. I needed to be online. I needed to use my laptop. Even when I don't have money for anything, I must buy data.
I must ensure my laptop is working to just do a lot of things that would invest in my future. That will prevent me from being hungry in the future. Right.
If all I focused on at that point was just me being hungry. I would not do anything, I would cry, I would be sad, I would be unhappy, and I would still be broke today, as I was then, yeah, but then I built websites, websites that few years after I was able to sell for thousands of dollars, and that is just how simple it is. So don't be fixated on your current problems because they will inhibit your success of tomorrow
with God, every problem comes to pass.
📍 Another example that typifies what I'm saying is Jacob and Esau.
Esau was fixated on the fact that he was hungry. All he cared about was just the food. He didn't think about his future. He could not even think beyond that current situation. He couldn't think beyond his stomach. He could not do any other thing. All he knew, all he was aware of at that time was the fact that he was hungry.
And that was what led him to selling his birthright to Jacob just for a bowl of food of which he had to still be hungry again because that was not the last food he ate in his life. In fact, if that food lasted for a long time, it wouldn't go beyond 24 hours.
And that is so rare. He must have been hungry again and needed some other food. So that solution was not a lifetime solution. That was not the food that he would eat and he would never eat again in his life, but his birthright was gone, for life.
Your current challenge is not your final challenge. It's not the last challenge you're going to have in life.
So don't let it consume your time, your energy, your emotions at the detriment of your future.
