ARE YOU PREPARED?

ADELOLA EDEMA

Last week, as part of a team, I was given an assignment; an opportunity I had longed-for for years. I was very excited about it, and tried to set to work. Then it dawned on me that, even though I had been looking forward to such opportunity, I had no plan.Thank God it wasn't something I could wiggle my way out of, I would have run away. It took all my energy and sleep away, because I was not prepared.
Two things I learnt from my experience;
1. If you have a dream and you don't prepare for an opportunity, it is just a wish. I have to sit down now and start planning for the different dreams in my heart.
2. You need people that will stretch you, especially in your career. You need people that will give you assignments that will remove the word IMPOSSIBLE from your vocabulary. Thank God I have such people in my life.

Do you have such people in your life?

LEAVE ORPAH ALONE

ADELOLA EDEMA

I had considered writing “My dear, Leaving does not make you a bad person”, but somehow it didn’t seem to be expressing my thoughts.

Christians sha… I don’t know what Orpah did to us that we have dubbed her a bad person. Do you know who Orpah is? Her story is in Ruth chapter 1, she was Naomi’s daughter-in-law. The poor lady had lost her husband and brother-in-law at a young age. If her brother-in-law had not died, as a widow in that time, she would have remarried her in-law and continued her husband’s lineage. But here she was mourning her husband, his brother, and their father. But considering that she and her fellow widowed sister-in-law, were good people, they decided to follow their mother-in-law on a long journey to where she came from.

So many in-laws in this post sha

Anyway, after Naomi begged them to leave her alone to continue her depression, Orpah turned back and went home while Ruth insisted on following Naomi.

I wonder how their lives would have been if Orpah had also insisted on following Naomi… Would any of them have married Boaz or any other guy in the family? Would Naomi have preferred Ruth over her and she would have been miserable? Would they have just taken care of Naomi till she died and they would have become too old to be wanted by any man?

For me though, Orpah has been my phobia; what if I leave someone that should be in my past and then for the rest of time, they keep using me as a reference for a bad person that left? Why hold on to the past? Why stay when I can leave?

I personally don’t think Orpah did bad by turning back, or Ruth was stupid or wise to have insisted on following Naomi. I think sometimes it is just good to close a chapter in our lives that has ended, and that was what Orpah did.

So maybe the title of this post really is “My dear, leaving does not make you a bad person”, it just means that you are closing a chapter that has finished. Your leaving might give Ruth a chance to a happy future.
In 2016, you may need to put some people or experiences in the past. As long as you think it’s the right thing to do, LEAVE. May God help us recognize when it is time to shut some doors and give us the grace to move on when we ought to.

Happy New Year!!!

YOU ARE PRICELESS

OYELADUN AYORINDE

JUDE 1:3- "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints"

1 PETER 1: 18-19-" For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; (19) But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot "

Our salvation process is the same: The same Grace, not minding how far gone we were in sin. The value of our salvation can't be compared with the best things in life like gold and silver.

For us to fully understand this, we need to know a little about gold and silver: Gold and silver are a type of money but worth far more than paper currency. The average life expectancy of paper currency is 27 yrs but gold and silver date back more than 5,000 yrs. Gold and silver are universally accepted and though they fluctuate, they can never lose their purchasing power.

God is saying our salvation is much more valuable. The value of the blood of Jesus Christ far surpasses the value of gold and silver.
The blood of Christ added real value to us.
When you understand your value, there are certain things you won't do. Understanding ur value makes u contend for your faith earnestly.

To contend means many things. It means to fight a good fight of faith. It means to maintain and assert your right/ privilege in Christ. It also means to stand firmly on the Word of God without changing or backing out.
As you go on in this new year, the year of All Sufficiency, don't you ever doubt the work of your salvation.
Don't ever doubt the Words He has given you.
Don't ever allow your salvation and walk with Him be rubbished by whatever.
Happy new year to you all. I love you.