Jesus of Nazareth, baby of a poor Jewish family, was born in a stable in Bethlehem in the region of Galilee. His parents, Mary and Joseph, had travelled there as required by law for the Roman census. Jesus learned the trade of his father, a carpenter. Please note that the Bible states that as a boy, Jesus was filled with wisdom.
Turn your bibles to Proverbs 3 vs 35, The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools. Who is a wise man? A wise man can’t allow anything to go beyond the Optimal Point, a wiseman checks his ego, a wise man walk away from trouble and keep his peace. A foolish person will always rely on his own understanding, love simplicity, and delight in scoffing, leading to destruction and shame. Their temporary worldly gains are nothing compared to the lasting glory God promises the wise.
Too Many Hands
The law of diminishing returns is an economic principle stating that if you increase one input in a production process while keeping all other inputs constant, there will be a point where the additional output from many unit of input starts to decrease. Now, if a bakery adds more bakers, they will initially increase bread production, but eventually, adding more bakers to a single oven will lead to less and less additional bread per additional baker because they start getting in each other’s way.
What makes you think you’re better than others? Who told you you’re more qualified than other, you may not have too much time to correct your wrongdoings. Don’t forget that in the Bible, they’re some God’s generals, even angels who lost relevance, You must seek a broken heart in the Lord. Yes, there are a lot of beauty in brokenness, strength, and redemption. Let me speak to your heart, as an ordained prophet today, that the broken ones are beautiful too
God Sees Things differently
What made you think you are the most qualified person? Oh, most intelligent?. God can never be a man. He acts and thinks differently. He decides to you the so called Imperfect People to carry out perfect redemption.
The New Testament book of Hebrews includes a collection of great heroes of the faith, men and women whom God used and blessed. I find that interesting because these people messed up. They weren’t perfect examples. But The funny thing is that chapter 11 of Hebrews mentions only their victories and not their mistakes. That is because God sees what we will become, not necessarily what we are. In fact, a lot of people we read about in the Bible messed up one time. Abraham, the father of faith and of the Jewish people, lied about his wife twice. His son Isaac did the same thing. Sarah, Abraham’s wife, laughed at the promise of God and then denied that she laughed.
Jacob lied and connived. Noah got drunk. Samson was immoral. Gideon was fearful. Rahab was a prostitute. David had an affair and then had someone murdered to cover it up. Elijah was deeply depressed and didn’t want to live. And Jonah ran from God. The disciples fell asleep when they should have been praying, and Simon Peter openly denied the Lord. Then there was Moses, who killed a man. Also, understand that Moses was a reluctant leader. He didn’t want the job, but he got it. And when he was called to do something, he did it. As a result, he discovered that God was more than enough for him. He knew the Lord was bigger than the problems he faced, The Bible tells us that Moses chose to share the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin” read Hebrews 11:25 .
Moses understood that God’s worst was better than the world’s best. You, too, may take God’s worst. But you will also get God’s best purpose, which means in life, the joy of the Lord, and the guaranteed hope that you will go to Heaven when you die. My brother and sisters, don’t truncate God’s vision, I want you reading this to believe this with all your heart. Don’t interrupt God’s plans. He has plans for all of us, just like He had plans for Adam and Jesus.
You will have those short-lived pleasures, of course. But afterwards, those pleasures have consequences. You will have to face the repercussions of your actions, your sins, and your behaviour. The Bible says that ultimately there’s a final judgment when unbelievers will stand before God. Moses knew his people were suffering, and he just couldn’t live with that. Therefore, he decided to take action. Moses had the right idea, but he went about it in the wrong way. His timing was way off. Yet despite his flaws, despite his shortcomings, the Bible calls him “Moses the man of God.” What else can be said? Yes, Moses failed, but he failed forward. That simply means that he learned from his mistakes. And we need to do the same.
Some people just keep doing the same things over and over again. They make the same mistakes, fall into the same cycle of sin, struggle with the same character, wickedness, and evil schemes, and it just goes on and on and on. Their bitterness continues for years and turned to decades, and in many ways, their lives become defined by those things. Doing the same thing again and again while you’re expecting different results is the definition of insanity (ara).
On the other hand, if you make a mistake or do something wrong but own it and learn from it, that is a well-learned lesson. That is failing forward.Now, we all fail in life, yes, We all have lapses. We all get tempted. We all face trials. We are not alone in the struggles of life.
My final word
Remember Joseph refused to sin with his master’s wife, choosing God over temptation, and was eventually made Prime Minister of Egypt (Genesis 39:9).
Also David stood up to Goliath, removing national reproach and bringing joy and victory to Israel (1 Samuel 17) and Apostle Paul, Lived in obedience, looking forward to the crown of righteousness for himself and all who love Jesus’ appearing (2 Timothy 4:8).
Thank you.
Bye for now!!!
Brother Austin C Agbakor
