SUNDAY TONIC WITH Anthony Ehis Solomon "THE BLOWS OF LIFE"

                            

     

Life is a mystery embedded with smiles and pain, cries and joy, battles and victories, and filled with uncertainties. Life comes with BLOWS and BLESSINGS. Most times, blows come first before blessing just in accordance with the biblical exhortation of St Paul’s "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

These obstacles (blows) are better experienced early in life in order to serve as a preparation for the blessings that would follow. But most often, out of our desperation, we so much desire and work to thwart this natural order thereby landing ourselves into so many problems.

According to Pastor Sam Adeyemi “experience is not the good teacher if you are the one narrating the story rather it will be a teacher if you listen to someone else's story by applying it to yourself in preventing errors”.

Just as men are in different shapes and sizes, so the blows of life are in different shapes and sizes opine Bishop David Oyedepo. Everyone in life receive blows daily, weekly, monthly or yearly according to his/her capacity and strength. God doesn’t give you what is beyond you; rather he gives all men blows according to his capacity knowing full well that “His grace is enough for us”.

For one to succeed, one has to be prepared through the chisiling out of all the rough edges, the blows of life serve as a chisle that removes the unwanted edges in our life. The reception of these blows is the natural law of life!.

Do not be decieved by a little progress made because the blows of life is a continuos process but the beautiful thing about life is that for those who put their trust in God would not only be like mount zion that can never be moved but will always be victorious, in other words, expect more blows from every nook and cranny.

It is only the saint that receives much blows than sinners, it is the faithful that receives higher blows than the unfaithful. It is those that stand firm and balance well in Christ Jesus that receive gigantic blows from every angle than those who live a hypocritical life.

These blows and blessings go hand in hand, if it comes, how would you stand? It is how far you stand firm when receiveing these blows that counts, not how long because God gives us the blows to prepare us for the greater blessings that would follow.

God made David to meet Goliath for him to be a champion because in every Goliath, there is a Stone. When life throws you blows, then throw back a stone which is JESUS. Remember, those to guide you in your journey of life may not be angels, rather they may be like portiphar'wife. The biblical Joseph received greater blows from his brethren and if Joseph had slept with portiphar'wife her, he wouldn't have succeed. Therefore the blows of life is a real McCoy, stay connected with God to overcome.

It is during blow time of your life that you discover your strengths and get to see the true colours of people who claim they care for you. Ask biblical Job about it, he would tell you more. If David had run away from the lion and the bear forsaking that innocent and immaculate lamb, he wouldn't have overcome Goliath by becoming a champion. It is what you overcome in your privacy that determines your victory in the public. If you consider yourself as a weak person in facing these blows, then throw yourself into the arms of God. Some people need to face real blows of life before God can capture their attention because he knows exactly what will lead man away from his presences, so deal with it.

The blow of an eagle is the storm but finds joy in diving into the storm and overcome it. Despite how strong Samson was, he had been overcoming different blows but those blows came back and dealt with his weakness. One greatest way to overcome your weaknesses is to admit that you are weak. Every blow has big punches as that of Goliath but you can use your little tongue filled with the word of God to overcome it.

Do you want to be an egg or a carrot? When an egg is placed on boiling water, it becomes very hard inside but when you place a carrot on that same boiling water, it becomes very soft totally. That boiling water is the blows it either softens you or gets you hardened.

Diamond has an attractive looks, we crave for it, love it and cherish the beauty. It becomes expensive when the beauty shines but forgotten that diamond receives enough blows inside the furnance before it starts shinning. Steve Ferar in his book POINT MAN says “many times in the life, we find ourselves not understanding why God has allowed us to face hard situation. But if you wait patiently for a few years and write your life backwards as the Hebrew letters, you can often see his good plan. Happy Sunday

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