Tomorrow, this year shall end. Now, if you’re reading this piece anytime from nineteen hours after I wrote it, that statement tells you I wrote it on 30th of December. If you read it same day, you know that tomorrow, this year shall end. But your life shall not end with it, in the mighty name of JESUS!
Now, think of it, what have you achieved this year? What has God done for you this year? What are you grateful for this year? What can you really say about this year?
Perhaps you’re thinking or have been saying nothing much happened for you this year. But, are you really sure of these thoughts and words?
Well, a song writer said “Count your blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done.” If you think nothing much has happened for you this year, maybe it’s time to sit down with pen and paper and take stock of your life in 2019 or of your life in the last one month.
Few days ago, I was thinking I wasn’t getting much as expected. Then I decided to take stock of my blessings in the previous 40 days and I was surprised at what I’ve gotten.
Well, the question is, where did all those money go? Well, I discovered I spent over 70% of the whole money helping people and doing God’s things.
Well, I have bills to pay that I had determined to pay before this year runs out. But unless there’s a miraculous blessing, it might not be paid until after tomorrow. Will there be that miracle. I don’t know. But I believe God for something special within the next 24 hours.
So, I made money and spent it on people and not on myself. That means nothing much happened for me in the last 40 days. Right? But, am I really sure of that thought?
If I had not been the one in position of helping with the little I helped those people with and had been the one begging for people’s help without even getting it, wouldn’t the story have been different?
Would I have been happier that way? Does it feel better to be able to make someone happy or to be continually sad for having much needs that no one is attending to?
I dialed my number in a teenager’s phone few days ago and I saw “Joygiver.” That was what she used to save my number. I had expected to see “Pastor”, ” Daddy” or “Pastor A. T. Adenekan.” But what I saw was “Joygiver.”
I didn’t get it at first. Then when I realised she actually saved my name with that, I laughed and called My Queen’s attention to it.
Now, what if I was unable to give that help to her that would make me a Joygiver to her. She might have been sad for that moment and be sad for the rest of her life each time she looks back on her inability to get a helper that would meet her need and give her the needed joy at that moment.
So, I would have been so greatly wrong thinking I didn’t achieve much this year simply because I had outstanding bills to pay. That was part of where my income went in the last one month. But, it gave a girl an unending joy.
When we dialed My Queen’s line on the young lady’s new phone, she saved her number with “Beauty Queen”. Now, how could I have thought that nothing much has happened for me this year, when a beautiful teenager thinks that my wife is a Beauty Queen?
Do you know how many people’s body have been decomposed before today by acids poured on them and how many beauties have been evaporated and are depreciating in the graveyard even right now?
So, if you’re thinking nothing much has happened for you this year, are you really sure? Are you really sure of these thoughts?
Yes I know you were supposed to be in a relationship by now based on your plans and wishes for this year but it seems you’re ending this year the way you started it so nothing much has happened for you and God hasn’t done you much good. But, are you really sure of this?
Because I know a lady who years ago was in a relationship with a guy and something happened that made them to break up. The guy got married not too long after that while the lady was still single.
But, not too long ago I got a bad news, the guy got suddenly sick and died. His wife just gave birth to their first child. What would you be thinking if you were the first lady? That nothing good happened for you that year?
Maybe you’re supposed to have been married and something happened, something went wrong and the wedding was postponed or even cancelled. So, you feel bad. You feel angry. You feel God has given you a slap in the face. You feel nothing good has happened to you this year. But, are you really sure of this?
Because two days ago I saw the picture of a very beautiful lady on Facebook, probably more beautiful than you are. Sorry for that. But, truly the lady was really beautiful.
And there was a handsome young man posing behind her as they took a nice picture towards their wedding that was scheduled for 31st December 2019, according to the information on the invitation attached to the picture.
But some sad statements came before the picture: “She was killed yesterday by Boko Haram while on her way to…” preparation for her wedding.
Now, she is gone, but her wedding was just tomorrow. What a sad news to her fiance, her parents, her siblings, and her friends. So, are you still thinking God didn’t do much for you this year and you don’t need to Thank Him much for much things?
O, you wanted a car that can convey you or your family from one place to another. You needed the car badly this year but you never got it.
Or you even had to sell your car and use the money for something else. And so you think nothing much has happened for you this year.
But, same two days ago, I saw the picture of a happy family of a man and his wife with their three children, on Facebook, rejoicing in a fine car.
The words attached to the picture was that they died on Christmas Day in an accident with that car, while traveling. All of them, died.
My Dear, think back on this year and count your blessings. Name them one by one and Praise God for both what happened for you and all the good things you wished for that you missed.
Everything good deserves praise to God. Every unmet need and unrealised expectations too deserve great praise to God.
You don’t know how much bad the good could have brought to you if you had had it when you wanted it. Thank God for who you are, what you have, where you are and what you need.
Much good things have happened for you this year, you can really be sure of that. So, look back, stand up and THANK GOD!
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I am A. T. ADENEKAN
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