Kunle ‘Ara’ Adedeji

Shattered? Broken? Discouraged? Do your fears scream loud? Are your failures roaring? Is the embrace of loneliness strong? Rejected? Dejected? Abased? Demoralised? Sometimes even after getting a clearer picture of what we call our future, we lose focus and everything suddenly gets blurred.

Called to rule but yet still serving, and it’s as if the dream was only an imagination or wish. Prophecies have been proclaimed but yet nothing is forthcoming. The Lord has promised a fruitful marriage and yet no brother seems to be looking your way. The Lord has promised prosperity and riches untold, but the last breakfast you had, you borrowed the money from a neighbour. You know you’re meant to be a pace setter but you’re still struggling with carryovers and 2.2. Every wrong thing that may be in your life right now, they’re all weighing you down. The truth is this. You sure know a lot of motivators, and I’m not sending you this as a motivator but to open your eyes to what the Word of God says.

Whatever things are happening are happening to fertilize the seed of what has been planted in you, right now, right now. This might look like an ink stain so strong that you really want to wash away, or completely eradicate. I can tell you that if you give it time, you’ll see the most beautiful painting you’ve ever seen; cause what you are focusing on is only a spot on the artwork God is making out of your life.

Right now you may be sitting in a hole, instead of a throne; unreasonable obstacles, and loathful words from the mouths you were expecting to calm you. But if you look around you’ll definitely see people with worse cases around you, and like the Yorubas say, “In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king.” Yes, you’ve got a reason to be thankful, not only thankful but useful.

Paul, though bound, thought it not meet to keep quiet about the free gift of salvation. Salvation promises freedom, yet he was bound. Even in that state he proclaimed the liberty that is enjoyed in salvation. And David was anointed to seat as a king on a throne, but his abode was a cave. And you know what, he still became the captain of four hundred men.

David was a refugee, sought after by the king of the land; but right in that state he was still useful training men. Men that were debtors, and all sorts of dejected people, and out of them he raised mighty men, some of whom later came to save his neck.
So why waste away right now. You feel you have enough to deal with already, so you neglect every other person that needs what you can offer, who might later be your helper.

Today is a tool to make tomorrow free of toiling; tomorrow remains intact. God’s words won’t fail so I charge you right now, arise, be thankful and make yourself useful!