You can be Better!
This, I found with my generation; majority are ignorant though it's a jet age that has known greater advancement in all ramification. Ignorant of what? Ignorant of reason of existence. There are no many teenagers and young adults who really know they exist but for a purpose that is divine!
And you wanna ask me the implication of that! Abnormality has become the order of the day with all manner of perversion among the youths.
I gotta ask you this, "What are you afraid to loose or risk for God?" Look around you and ask yourself, "Have I been influencing people around me in the way of the Lord? Or I've been influenced by the worldly folks in the way of the world?"
In the book of Daniel, there are these three men I'd like to present to you to glean wisdom on how they lived their lives and the aftermaths.
1. Nebuchadnezzar: Guess you remember him. He was a King in the ancient city of Babylon. For this man, he thought he had everything in the world and at a snap of his finger he could get anything he wanted. But he was wrong. Because of his fantasy and wayward living, he ignored God's warning to him.
You should remember what happened to him. He was humiliated by God (see Daniel 4). After God taught him the greatest lesson of his life He restored him back to his kingship position. Nevertheless, he still lose many years of divine stocks.
2. Belshazzar: This is the second guy. You would recall the saying that "Learn from other people's mistake and make changes before you make the same mistake." This king ignored God greatly, he never reverenced the KING of all kings. Every warning God signalled him, he ignored; even the God's handwriting on the wall. Tell you what; he paid greatly for it. (See Daniel 5)
3. Daniel: This man was full of desirable virtues. He was among d Israelites who were exiled in the land of Babylon. The king wanted servants from the royal line of the exiled Israelites so Daniel was chosen as one of the selected servants. The king ordered that they should be trained in the ways of the royal court of the Babylonians while they are to be fed with the king's delicacies. But Daniel "purposed in his heart not to defile himself" with the king's meat.
That was a temptation and a great test but he decided to stand strong and not compromise. He was not afraid of loosing his life, because he knew he was not the owner of his life. His owner, God, promoted him afterward and made him mighty among all his colleagues and peers.
If I asked you to choose who you will want to be like, most of us will definitely choose DANIEL. But...are you willing to stand the way he stood. You could do better and greater than him but you will be needing Jesus. The question now is, are you ready to surrender all to Jesus Christ? Would you want Him to be your all? Are you ready to say to yourself, even if the world despise me, I am ready to follow Jesus, no matter the circumstances? That's what it takes to be what you have been primarily and divinely made for. And you can only be better and greater not without your divine calling.
Check your inner man, and ask this question... WHO IS LIVING IN ME NOW?
