WAIT NO LONGER

Success belongs to that person that understands how to do. I mean that person that knows how to take the bull by the horn without wasting anytime at all. That person that understands how to do what should be done and is ready to do it NOW. That person who does not put things off in the name of NEXT TIME. Because from my own findings I have discovered that there is nothing that keeps a person down at a spot than “I will do it tomorrow or the next day.” It is called procrastination. Procrastination drains our ability to succeed. Because it keeps us from doing what needs to be done, when it is supposed to be done. A wise man said “procrastination is a thief of time.” And this is very true. Procrastination stole the time of many parents. It stole the time of many people who are roaming our streets and path ways, begging for alms. And it is still stealing the time of so many young people today.

When I look around and see old men who are engaged in things like truck pushing, Motor cycle riding (Okada) or who act as gate men and other hard and tedious jobs, I always ask myself; why are they doing this now? Is it because they were once well-to-do but situation turned around and things became bad or is it because they fail to do what they are supposed to do at a particular point when they were in their young age? Are they into this because their parents were not able to train them in something better? Or is it because they lost TIME to PROCRASTINATION? These questions most times push me into action because one thing I dread so much as a person is living a sympathetic life when I will be in my 60s or 70s.

One day I was invited by a church in Lagos for their thanksgiving service. I got to the church late because I had another engagement somewhere else. So when I got to the venue, I stood outside not wanting to draw attention because I have been to the church about two times or more (I can’t remember now) as a guest speaker. As I was outside waiting for one of the Usher to get me somewhere to sit at the back. Something that brought tears to eyes happen. One old man who would be either in his late 60s or early 70s walked up to me and greeted me. I responded with a broad smile. He said, “my son I know that you don’t know me.” I was quiet and still smiling because someone who is in what I call “speaking business” can never know all those that know him or her. He continued, “my son do you know that at my age I practice those things you taught us when you came here the last time. They are what I am putting into practice now and they are helping me. I wish I had known them when I was younger, I would have been greater than what I am now.” All the while I was smiling but after the last line of his words, smile was drain off my lips. Because something pierced my heart and fear gripped me. Fear gripped me because one thing that is hunting many old people today is what they could have done when they were young that they didn’t do. Not because there were no opportunity but because something that is less importance took away their time.

Even today there are many people who crying about unemployment that knows within themselves that the reason why they are unemployed and even unemployable is because they played away their time in school. Or that they failed to learn a particular skill that would have pushed them forward. The good news is that if you start today, you didn’t start late. There is no reason to allow regret of what you failed to do to keep you in chains. You can stand up now and start something, even if you can’t conclude it before your death or transfer, someone or whoever that concludes it will never tell the story of how it started without mentioning your name.

I have discovered that when someone is young, the person thinks that all the time in this world belongs to him or her. Most youths do not know that there is no time at all. Many young people are chasing shadows thinking that they are running after something tangible. Many youths live in what I call “optical illusion.” Following a road that leads to nowhere. My prayer for myself and every young person out there is this; may we never live to regret what we didn’t do which we could have done when we grow old. Amen.

Jesus Christ said, “I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day.” He said this because He understood that one day ones light would be turned off. Some life would turn off by age, some by transfer others by marriage. There are things which If you don’t do this year by next year you can’t try it because your mates would have gone far above you. There are some things which if you don’t do now, once you get married, you can’t do them anymore. So please before night of any type falls around you, wait no longer, do what need to be done now.

Someone said, “today is my tomorrow, to take control and seize every opportunity.” I will also love for you to say the same thing. if you turn today into your tomorrow, I promise you by the time you see yourself next time, you will be glad you read this write up. You have to seize every opportunity that comes your way. Some things can only be ours when we grab them by force. Do not wait to be spoon fed by anybody. Take charge of your life and, make the most of it. The power that will give you a place amongst great men in the choices you make every day. The choice you must make after reading this piece should be, I WAIT NO LONGER. Do not wait any longer. Go into action and take action. Let me re echo what Harry A. Hopf said, “often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making wrong decision.” Therefore do not be afraid of making wrong decision. It is better than to make mistake than and learn from it NOW than not to make any mistake and die of heart attack from the pain of what you could have done that you didn’t do tomorrow.

Let me round of this piece with this German Proverb, “begin to weave now and God will give you the thread.” Just get it done and do it now.

Onuigwe Chidi Sirnoel

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THE MAN BEHIND THE VEIL

Looking at how life kept turning many people around and how other people make some other persons feel inferior. I had this strong urge to write this piece because someone out there whom I may never know needs to read it and pick up the broken pieces of his or her life.

Let me start by telling you that what determines whom you become is not what that person around you told you. I will also say that your family and friends do not have the right to define your person to you. Even you who is reading this piece do not have the right to define yourself. The only person that has the full right to define you is the person that made you; the person that created you.

A car does not decide what it is built for. It is the manufacturer that determines what the car is built for and what the car should be called. The driver of the car might use the car for any other thing but that will mean “abusing the car.”

So many of us have abused our lives by the things we do with it. Some of us abuse our lives by the things we say about ourselves. Some of us have also abused ourselves by what we call ourselves. Many a time, we blame others for abusing us in one way or another while we are the greatest “abusers” of our lives.

You must dare to be yourself. May Sarton wrote, “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” Become whom God has built you to be.

What I want to tell you that read this piece is that whatever it is the world around you and you yourself have called yourself that is contrary to what your maker calls you will stop having negative effect on you after reading this write up. After reading this piece the pain and emotional pain and psychological defect which have followed you for sometimes will fly away with the wind, never to come back.

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THE SPIRIT THAT LIVES IN ME:

The Spirit that lives you is the Spirit of God. It doesn’t matter if you believe in God or not. The Bible says in Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

God personally made you by himself not by His spoken word. He didn’t create you the same way he created animals and plants. I know some people that read this piece believe in evolution theory. However, years after evolution theory were introduced into this world. They still remains at the level of theory. There have never been any evidence to prove the theory therefore I will advice all those that believe in the theory to have a re-think.

Friend God made you in His own image and likeness. He transferred a part of Him inside you after making you. That part of Him which He transferred into you when he breathed into you is what put life into the sinew which you carry around every day.

What determines ones action is the spirit that lives in the person. A man cannot give more than what he carries inside Him. The Spirit you carry is the greatest Spirit you can find anyway. This Spirit is the Spirit is the Spirit of POWER and of SOUND MIND (2 Timothy 1:7). That Spirit is poised for action if only you can unleash Him.

In that place we read in Genesis God created human to dominate the things around him/her. God did not create human to be dominated by the things that happen around him/her. God created you to take charge of your circumstances. He created and gave you His Spirit so that you will “run things instead of things running you.”

Anytime you live in the cage people built for you by the way they treat you, it means you are not maximizing the Spirit of DOMINION which God planted you while creating you.

My good friend this is the time to pick up that which God called you prior to your creation. Look at those things that call you bad names and give you poor image, eye ball to eye ball and tell them that YOU ARE MORE THAN CONQURORS.

Always remember that people can call you whatever name they wish, but that does not erase the name God called you before you were born. You are not a biological mistake. Even if you were born by “human mistake,” you were never a mistake before God.

Go to your mirror right now if you have any. If you don’t have a mirror, look at your shadow. If you can’t see your shadow right now, place your hand on your chest and speak these words to yourself.

“The man behind that veil is a great man.”

“The man behind that veil is more than conqueror.”

“The man behind the veil is a man full of power.”

“I am far and better than what the world or people around me call me.”

“I am more than what I call myself.”

“I am whom and what God says I am.”

One of the ways to activate all the Lord has programmed for you is to draw close to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore let me close this write up by saying that Jesus Christ still receives sinners. He is actually a friend of sinners; therefore whatever sin you have committed will be taken care of, if only you will ask Him to take care of it. He shed His love when He poured out His life on the cross of Calvary. He doesn’t demand much from you. The only thing He asks of you is your heart. He is asking that you give Him a space in your heart so that He will direct your life.

Invite Him by saying: Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner. I come to you this day to surrender my heart and life for your leadership. Give me the grace to live above anything that brings pain to you. Give me grace to follow you at all time. Give me the grace to live and stay close to God. Thank you for making me one of yours. Amen.

By Onuigwe Chidi Sirnoel