GRABBING YOUR DESTINY BY THE HORNS

CHAPTER 2 UNDERSTANDING YOUR INNER CRY “One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one; he killed him and hid him in the sand”. (Ex.2.11-12) Our real missions on earth are always tugging at us; one way or the other. They are always manifesting themselves in our thought lives and actions. The voices of our individual purposes are always resounding in how we feel towards the course society takes and in our personal views of life’s situations. Infact, our purposes are always found running in the direction of our biggest desires. Like many people in the days of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt, mistreatment of a sect of people was entirely unfair, but to others, it was just as appropriate as passing on a mass murderer a death penalty in today’s American community. The man Moses had the marks of the happenings in his time all over him and in his heart. The ill-treatments of his brothers left him with the two choices common to all humanity; act to change things or remain idle and let things have their way. The restlessness in him wouldn’t go away until he took the steps dictated by his heart. In hating the situation round about him, listening to his heart and allowing himself to be moved in the direction of his desire, a man, ordinary like many others, rose above all to become the greatest vessel of deliverance in the history of Israel. The itchings, the discomfitures we feel towards things not well in place in our lives and the strong urge pounding at us to get things right, to be the people we desire deep down inside to be, and to have our dreams taking on flesh, call for us to be able to specifically call by name what we truly desire and stick to them. Knowing exactly what our heart tells us to do is of great necessity especially in our present competitive world where anything beautiful is acceptable. However, doing just anything beautiful might give us gain but never total satisfaction and contentment because we live comfortable lives not by running in the shoes of another but by doing the race using what is meant especially for us. We have to remain focused and undisrupted; in line with the very thing we desire and allow no deviation because our greatest desires are always in line with our purposes. “….. Moses…..choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God….” (Heb. 11.24-25) The desire in Moses grew with him and as the years passed by and his understanding grew better due to his encounter with God and other circumstances, he made a decision not to hold on to any other thing but to stick to and bring to birth his imbedded, deeply rooted and God-given strong desire – freeing the people of Israel. It probably seemed nice to him to enjoy royalty in the grand palace together with all that comes with it or he felt fine shepherding in the quietness of the bush in the company of his sheep but he distinctly understood the language of his heart, he knew what the hunger in him stood for, he got to a point in life where he knew doubtlessly what his desire meant and held up to it. We like Moses must understand what burns inside us, what our desires are demanding from us, and stick to bringing them to reality ignoring all other other “road-side” attractions. Many complicate their lives, expelling from themselves the much needed joy and contentment and bliss by failing to attach their energy and inner resources to their heart’s desires that eat their insides up, they fail to punch the exact button of their desires linked to their times here on earth, thereby leading them to unnecessary failure, worries and mental perplexities. A desire misinterpreted and misrepresented has enough force to canonize any man into absolute disaster. We risk jeopardizing our present lives and bright tomorrows by simply buying in to and conducting our lives according to just any nice coloured idea that another propagates or lives by. No two people are ever the same and not all roads lead to the same destination. You are unique with a mission only you can accomplish and your never-ending itch to attain a particular thing, get to be a person of influence and weight in your community or even to be the best God-pleaser on earth is always in conformity to your purpose. Therefore it is absolutely wrong to borrow and live by a desire not originally found in you because the result of every one desire is not like the other. We must therefore move forward in life according to the old English proverbial saying, “everyone must row with the oars they have”. Knowing and understanding clearly your hearts desire helps to: 1. Make you remain focused and unconfused in life. 2. Makes you say yes to only the things that boosts you up. 3. It gives you the strength to stand opposition and remain resolute and firm in your decision makings 4. Knowing what you want in life helps not to make and remake mistakes unnecessarily. You may ask, how can I identify my purpose? The simple answer to this mind boggling question in the minds of many is found in the responds to these other equally simple questions; what do you desire most in life? What is that you admire most in people way ahead of? In sometime to come where do you want to be positionally? What is it that gives you the most joy and self-worth? What do you get passionate about? Your sincere answers to these questions carry with them your hearts desire that bears your bright future. They are the stepping stones to realizing your destiny. Most people’s failure to finding answers to the stated questions contribute immensely to their unhappiness and in many other cases, increases their inabilities to give out their best or their unwillingness to induce it into their professional fields. Many more others are twisting and turning in life with discomfort because positionally, they are at the wrong places and of course doing the wrong things; what they were not born to do. A lot more others become grumblers in what they do because of the terrible mistake of yielding to negative influence and pressure. It is better to ride to your own destined place of honour as king than to end up lost as a stranger in a world made for another. Winners in life are those who know exactly what they want from it and those who have identified their places in it. Life has nothing to offer its passers- by but everything to give out to those who are willing to settle at their specific places and like trees, grow their desires. You become the best you can be simply by saying yes to your burning desires and allowing yourself to be moved in the direction of them. Refuse to carry and run with the torch of another; it might quench before you know it. The fire burning in you individually illuminates your track and burns on and on. Knowing your hearts desire specifically and keeping it alive is essential if one intends to move forward in life because I think, in terms of real success and fulfilment, that the greatest woe that can ever befall a man is the dying of what is inside him while he lives. Your desires are so important discarding them is synonymous to suicide in that to have the desire to lead a fulfilling life is the basic foundation of all achievements and fulfilment. Imagine a primitive hunter out hunting with wood ash in his rifle instead of gunpowder; so is it with people attempting to live life without desire. Keep your hearts cry going on. Do not allow a past failure to kill your ambitions. It is seriously wrong to attempt satisfying your souls hunger with just anything other than what your heart calls for. If you desire something so strongly, keep the fire engulfing you daily because a dead desire causes decayance of life.