In Life we are put into many different situations and various circumstances that demand some sort of reaction from us. For example, it may be that you get a job, you get a new responsibility, your starting a new chapter in your life eg University or college...whatever it may be and your making new friends or whether your preparing to get married or preparing to get into a serious relationship with somebody and most importantly, You decide to commit your life to God..and many more circumstances. But to achieve some of these thing if not all of them, you need to overcome the 4 things that could potentially stop you from achieving these life-changing aspects in your life. WANNA KNOW WHAT THEY ARE...ME TOO????
So Number 1: PRIDE
You can see pride in 2 ways: One is when your get that sense of achievement when you reach a goal, or maybe it is that you did something that you thought was impossible for you and it became possible all because of the effort you put into making that happen. This is called Positive Pride. Now like any comic, there is always good guy and a bad guy, a Superhero and a SuperVillain or just an ordinary hero and villiain.So just as there is positive pride, there is negative pride. Now if you look at yourself and you have positve pride..GOOD, however if you look at yourself and see you have the opposite: Negative pride, well you need to do something about it VERY VERY QUICKLY!!!! When you have negative pride, it gives you the sense of been a superhuman, to yourself in YOUR eyes, your unstoppable, your on top of the world, and you get the feeling a times that you can do whatever you want and no one can stop you..THIS IS OFTEN WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MIND OF THE PROUD PERSON. So as mentioned earlier, when you do receive a new resposibility or a new job or whatever, this element PRIDE can kick in and fill you up so much and in certain cases it becomes very hard to tell the person that "HEY, YOUR PROUD" , because at a certain stage it can get so bad, the person does not even realise that they are been proud. In my case, i was doing a good work for the youth group i work for: the VYG. You know i was very active doing various things but i could not help the fact that i was becoming known because i was involved in Big events in Big performances and so on and so forth and then slowly i became proud and i started to do things by how i knew best, i started to disregard instruction from authorities higher than me and began to do things the way i wanted to do and the worst part was i did not realise i was been so proud until i got told right there in my face "Michael, ever since you started been involved in so many things, you think your something" and let me be honest this did not feel good AT ALL but it was the truth. So maybe you have been put in a similar position to me and no one has told you yet, well examine yourself and if you see that you have this character, GET IT OUT OF YOU BECAUSE IT CAN TURN YOU INTO A MONSTER!!! OH YH, ITS WHAT GOT LUCIFER(THE DEVIL) KICKED OUT OF HEAVEN.
Number 2 is Money: This may relate to more people than others and believe me this one can also be potentially dangerous. Money is one of the most helpful assets that you can ever have and lets admit although i hear people use this so much in the wrong context (Money is the root to evil) and yes it is THAT IS IF YOU MAKE IT THAT. WHY?? AND HOW??. Let me take a moment to explain. Money can make people KILL, money can make you PROSTITUTE, money can turn you into a DRUG DEALER, money can make you feel like YOUR BETTER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE AND IN YOUR EYES YOU HAVE EVERYTHING. etc i could go on for ages, but the reality is that money can make people do mad things and this is where does very famous words (Money is the root to all evil) applies. A friend of mine was telling me a story about how he invited his friend to the church to get help because he wasnt doing very well in life, his financial life was not good...nothing as really moving for him. So he came to the church, he fought for his life, he fought for his financial life and so on...after a while he got a job that was paying good money. So the problem began when he started to value his job and the money he was making rather than the person that opened the way for him to receive such. He decided that he wanted to make more and more so started doing more at work and he was getting more, but as he was getting more money, he was sacrificing his time with God more and more until the point he left the church completely to make money and you know what he done well, got himself a nice car and what did he do with this car, everytime he would drive by the church to show off his car and put the friend that invited him to the church when his life was a mess to shame. CRAZY ISNT IT!! Now the guy is in hospital!!!!SOZ!! So if your in LOVE WITH MONEY to the point whereby your willing to sacrifice your faith or give up your relationship with someone or swap it for something that was beneficial to you...BE WISE and STOP THIS ADDICTION TO PAPER!!! CUZ THATS WHAT IT IS!! COLOURED PAPER WITH NUMBERS AT THE CORNERS!!!
Number 3 is Men/Women : Now this one is VERY VERY important, potentially the most important. However i am going to be very straight forward with this one and very honest with all of you!! Men, Women can be dangerous and Women, Men can be dangerous!!! Iv always thought about it and i even spoke to some friends about it. Women have such power to influence Men annd Men have alot of power to win a womans emotions/feelings with just WORDS!!! that is how powerfully influential a man and a woman can be to the opposite sex. Now Guys, let us admit it, we may have many things we want to give up in our lives but the hardest is always girls..girls..girls..girls. I dnt know about you GUY, but i struggled with this for 3 years and a bit to give this up because i wanted to take God seriously and i think that is the difference, if you dnt have a motive to give up something so important in your life, WELL YOU JUST WILL NOT!!! Dnt know why it took me so long, and i could say it was my love for girls, my desires, my lusts and so on...whatever it is! The point is that it was so hard and it was even harder because of the relationships i got into which were incredibly hard to come out of when you sincerely LOVED the person, well that was my case. OK I was prepared to do ANYTHING for this person..TO SACRIFICE my will for her. But I had to decided..Decide What??? Decide whether i wanted God to be first or my girlfriend, ONE OF THEM HAD TO HAVE THAT POSITION, YOU CNT HAVE 2 PEOPLE THAT COME FIRST PLACE CAN YOU?? NO U CANT!!! But eventually i made a very important decision to wait for the Perfect woman, God has prepared for me that will make me happy for the rest of my life> Yes im talking about getting married SOON..Hey im 18..give me 4-6 years!!! I dnt believe in teenage relationships anymore because unless you are certain you are going to be with the person for the rest of your life on earth, its pretty pointless because there is always then HEARTBREAK and this means some poor fellow is gonna have to listent to your SOB story which you could have avoided in the first place by been patient and waiting for your MR RIGHT but rather you choose to be anxious and get into hurtful relationships with somebody that does not value you and uses your BODY>> yes uses you only for SEX day and night and yet you see that your not happy but your so blindly convinced that your are with the right person cuz he says 3 simple words " I LOVE YOU" so you feel obligated to throw yourself at him and trust me he will throw himself right back at you. The same goes for you Women, Be intelligent and watchful, if you spot any warning signs at the beginnning o a potential relationship, JUMP SHIP!!! GET OUT OF THERE!! Chances are your gonna end of a mess and have unhealable trust issues!!! Value yourself!!!!
And Number 4 (DRUMROLL) is EMOTIONSS
This applies to the Guys more than the girls because as much as you girls do not like to admit it, YOU ARE NATURALLY EMOTIONAL!! FULL STOP. But the problem is when a guy, a MAN becomes emotional like a girl. This for me is very very irritating. Let me make it clear, there is a difference from been emotional and sensitive to peoples feelings, Hey you got a brain, think about it. A guy becomes emotional when he starts to let his feelings cloud his mind and disable him from assuming his position as a MAN. Men unless you may not know, We are the Head, We have dominion over All the earth, I am not saying we are neccessarily better than Women but God made us the Head of the earth for a reason and not women. BECAUSE MEN ARE NOT EMOTIONAL, MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO APPLY THEIR MINDS MORE THAN THEIR FEELINGS, although women seem more intelligent,!! We dnt make decisions based on emotions but based on ouR judgement using our BRAIN!! Andd not our feelings. However, unfortunaetly the way men are seen nowaday is contrary to how God wanted men to be. We have a world full of emotional MEN...Im sorry but this is the truth!! And you know what is funny, it normally the BadMans that are the most emotional because for one of the reasons that if they want to change or decide that they ever want to change, they let FEAR get them or they start to go down memory lane....Wake up and Just Change!!! It starts in the mind not in the heart my dear friend!!! So you Man, Assume your position as a Man. A man is not a drug dealer but the way or a pimp or a loser of Gay for that matter(sorry to say) but a Man is someone that is willing to do whatever it takes to live life the right way, A man is someone that accepts full responsibility of their actions no matter the circumstance, A MAN IS A LEADER AND NOT A FOLLOWER, SO STOP BEEN A SHEEP AND THINK FOR YOURSELF YOU MAN!!!!!!!!
If you can overcome all these 4 things, i can say that your Halfway there, Now the other Half is that action you take to make your life: GOD'S and not your OWN and your will see how great you will become!!!