Leaving to Cleave

Relationship Friday: Leaving to Cleave

Jesus Christ, in Matthew 19 showed that the marriage in Eden is still the prototype for those pressing into the Kingdom the Father has given to the little flock.

One fundamental precedence set by the story in Genesis chapter 2 is that there will have to be a leaving before cleaving.

[My Offline Bible] Genesis 2
23. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The man leaving his father and his mother precedes cleaving to his wife to become one flesh. I believe the cleaving won't be perfect without the wife doing the same.

Of course, we know that by the time the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the fathers of the tribes of Israel started raising families, the precept set in the garden for marriages had been jettisoned. It is understandable that they may not have fully understood the story of Adam and Eve until Moses got the revelation, so we can pardon all the atrocities the fathers commit contrary to what happened in the garden before the fall which Jesus Christ referred to.

One of the things you'll see in most of the fathers of Israel is that they brought women into their father's house, they never left. Isaac was at home with his father when a servant brought a wife to him at the behest of his Father, Abraham. Jacob was the one who left to go serve his uncle and to find a wife. The 12 fathers remained with Jacob even till old age, they never left, rather, their wives came to join them.

But God's original plan was stated in the passage of scripture quoted above. A man shall leave, and I believe a woman also should before cleaving.

Of course, the leaving may not necessarily be a physical leaving, it however connotes a degree of independence of choice and of sustenance. Ability to make independent decisions and to lead life with personal responsibility and accountability. It suggests ability to own one's life's decisions and to be able to stand the consequences. Ability to be able to earn a living and manage earnings for personal and societal responsibilities.

So we see that it's much more than physical leaving. There has to be a socio-economic, emotional and psychological leaving before a proper cleaving can take place.

There must be a practical show of maturity with responsibility that forms the foundation for independence that a new family needs to thrive.

If this can happen under the roof of your parents, then you may not need a physical leaving to cleave. And if it won't happen even if you are a million miles away, then you aren't ready to cleave to a wife or a husband. Physically leaving isn't an indication of the kind of leaving spoken about here.

Leaving doesn't mean a cutting off of relationship with your parents and siblings, but the ability to earn their trust and respect in the choices and decisions you make without them having the fear of you getting into trouble or ruining your life and reputation.

It's possible however that some parents don't ever believe their children are ever good enough to be independent. That's where the child must have to be able to prove to his or her parents that he or she is ready to be independent.

To cleave perfectly with a spouse, there has to be a perfect leaving. The rib removed must go back to its original position without additional tissues.

Think about this. Have you fully left before thinking about cleaving? Is your cleaving having issues because of the status of your leaving?

Revisit and reconsider and put every relationship where it belongs to have the peace your relationship needs to thrive.

Have a great weekend!

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Crisis Manager

Ministry Wednesday: Crisis Manager

The ministry makes you a crisis manager by default. The minister is a manager of troubles and tribulations. He had better be, than be overthrown by terrible troubles.
The instant he is called into the ministry, he's given the instruction to endure hardness.

2 Timothy 2
3. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Just as a friend said, you aren't even called to enjoy it, you are to endure it. It will put pressure on your durability. It will test the strength of material you're made of. It'll come with stress and strains and push you to your elastic limits but you must not break! You were made not to break, don't!

How does this work?
2 Corinthians 1
3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

6. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

God sets up a comforting system, like a cooling system in engines. For the engine to work, heat will be produced. If the heat produced becomes excessive, which will always happen for engine effectiveness, it'll burn the engine itself and damage it, so a cooling system is developed alongside to bring the temperature down so that the engine can keep producing within the heat and still survive.

So also, there is a comforting system in the system of ministry, whereby God by His comforting Holy Spirit, who is ever with us, comforts us in all the tribulations. He will never leave us nor forsake us, the work will always come with its stresses, but the Comforter is ever with us.

Now, there's was this fuel economy system being developed in the automotive industry whereby the heat produced by those heavy engines are tapped to be converted to other forms of energy to be reused in the vehicle, to reduce the quantity of fuel used to power the vehicle.

That's how the comforting system of the Holy Spirit works with the minister of God. The comfort the minister receives in the tribulations he passes through becomes the raw material for his own ministry of comforting others.

In immunology, people are injected with a small portion of the very virus, the body then react by producing antibodies that fight the virus. These antibodies become soldiers who fight the virus whenever it attacks again.

The comfort we got when we got attacked doesn't only work for us afterwards, but is also used to comfort others in their own tribulations.

If we have no tribulations of our own, how do we receive comfort from the Holy Spirit by which we comfort others?

It is the challenge we go through and overcome that equips us to be able to help others too to overcome.

It is true that we aren't the one who died. Jesus Christ did. But in ministry, we fill up some part of the suffering of Christ, this aspect is often hidden to many since there's no other sacrifice outside of that of Christ but for ministry sake, for love sake, we have areas of filling up, to help believers overcome the challenges that come with believing in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1
24. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

These come in form of trials of faith. The things we believe and preach will be tested and tried. That's how our faith becomes the shield by which we hold off the attacking fiery darts of the enemy.

It should not be counted as strange that these things happen to us. Our relationships and love shall be tested, our healing and health shall be tested, we'll be tried financially, our peace shall be tested, our salvation and redemption shall be tried, our victory over the world and the dark kingdom shall be tried, these should never be strange to us. We should not panic.

In all of these, the Comforter is there to coach us to victory already won in Christ Jesus. We are then equipped on how to hold up our shield and sword in the face of challenges till victory comes to be able to teach others also... This aspect of ministry isn't such that Christ would have done for us. It is our portion so that we can comfort others also.

He will make a way of escape that we'll be able to endure it as we learn about the faithfulness of God and how to look out for the way of escape.

1 Corinthians 10
13. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Paul, the apostle could say that because he's been there and had seen God's faithfulness.

Don't count it strange. Develop the attitude of champions and trust that through the power of Christ, the comfort we receive will keep us and those who hear us.

1 Peter 4
12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

13. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

At the end, the experience, the testimony and the hope will be same as that of Paul...

2 Corinthians 1
10. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

God has made us servants through whom He manages the challenges around His people. But it starts by how we manage those we face daily. If we do as we should and endure, the testimony of deliverance will be ours also.

Good morning. More grace and strength to you!

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Never All Yours

Monday Motivation: Never All Yours.

A wise billionaire once said, the first million you make maybe yours, but the rest is kept in your trust for the society. The actual fact, however, is that, you don't need to get the first million before you know and live like whatever comes in isn't ever all yours, even if it's a dollar.

We are stewards of the resources of the earth. Since the day man fell in the garden, and his sustenance became reliant on his own strength and sweat, inequality became human race's undoing.

It is clear that we have different strengths, and we can only sweat at different things to produce what will fill the earth. Not every sweat will produce at the same level. Not every hard work pays same way. And what value we place on different 'sweats' differs. What food a person's sweat will earn isn't what another person's sweat will earn. This is the fundamental cause of inequality and disparity in wealth owned, barring laziness and slothfulness.

It tells us that, what was made for all will be accessed only by few. Many will have what don't originally belong to them because their sweat earned it, many will have food they won't need to eat and so waste it. Many will sweat and still not eat well because stronger and better positioned people reach the food source faster and with better equipment.

But God who made all these for us all to enjoy didn't plan inequality. The resources of the earth is for all...

Ecclesiastes 5
9. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

God wants equality, but selfishness from both the rich and the poor won't let equality ever happen.

Some will take advantage of those with strength to labour for others by withdrawing their hands. Many with strength won't work to capacity since the profit won't be all theirs. These two phenomenons are the down side of the economic system that are based on communist and socialist ideologies.

It is the same with capitalism, where the opportune can take advantage of the worker to get it all for himself while keeping the worker in servitude to keep the wealth flowing. The end point is that wealth tilts towards those who can access the limited advantage. Inequality remains a problem hard to tackle in our fallen world.

But does God want it that way? The answer is No. God's desire is that there will be equality. We may not be able to achieve that perfectly in our day but I'm sure when and where He rules, equality will be achievable.

And it begins with knowing that all we have can't just be what's meant just for us alone. We must understand the skewed system that favors inequality by which because we don't have same spiritual, mental, social or physical strength to work, that our different hard work will produce differently and some will have more than they need and others will have less than they need.

God demonstrated His equality mentality in the distribution of Manna in the Old Testament, he who gathered much had no left over, and he who gathered less had no lack.

2 Corinthians 8
13. For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

14. But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

15. As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

This is why we ought to develop that mentality that we aren't the owner of all that we have. We must always have humanity at heart. We are responsible for the weak among us, even if we won't care much about the lazy and the indolent, who won't cook what they caught in hunting till it rots and they go hungry.

We must understand that whatever we have, was given for our distribution and communication. Our job will therefore include locating the vulnerable and the needy among us who also can feed and be clothed from our sweat, opportunities and better positions.

1 Timothy 6
17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

18. That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

19. Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

If you believe in Christ, you'll know that in the last day, one of the speeches will be, "I was naked, and hungry and you clothed and fed me". When we do this, we do it unto Christ, who we call our Lord.

It's never going to be all yours that comes to you!

Good Morning to you.

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James  3
14. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

A Thankless Job?

Ministry Wednesday: A Thankless Job?

Is ministry a thankless job? Never, it isn't. Don't ever let anyone or anything make you think it is. God rewards.

It is often said that the people in ministry are lazy people. How they should go get regular jobs. How they should never do that in a full time capacity. How they have made themselves nuisance to society and so on.
In spite of the efforts put in to bring the love and the truth of Christ to many, to encourage and to provoke people to good works, to help people develop a relationship with God that impacts on the lives of people around, on businesses and on society, people still turn around to say such things and to treat the minister as the scum of the earth.

But that's where the conviction of the minister comes to play. Ministers who have necessary convictions don't get deterred by such unguarded, unreasonable and unthoughtful comments.

Our conviction must begin with the knowing that our efforts aren't primarily to be acceptable by men. You can imagine that Jesus Christ, our forerunner and captain, who died for mankind already knew that only a few will take the strait way that leads to life. Yet, He knew that the way must be prepared for those few who would pass through. Be assured that no matter how big the crowd that follows you, either in real life, on social media or on both, you will not be accepted by all. Don't let that deter you. Don't forget that Jesus said, what's highly acclaimed of men is an abomination to the Lord. We aren't in ministry for the accolades nor for the popularity even if it's there.

Secondly,

We also must have the conviction that we aren't doing ministry to have a better life or to make a living. It isn't the kind of regular job people do with the ultimate purpose of earning and laying up treasures on the earth. So we can't judge how well we are doing the way others do, checking our bank accounts and how much wealth we command. That's not how it works in Christ's ministry where we are.

We also must be convinced about how we are sustained. When we fail to understand that, we may lose our boasting. Ministry is spiritual work, it isn't like the university lecturer or the stand up comedian, it isn't like the motivational public speaker, whose job is to excite the emotions or the intellects of the audience but one that delivers to the spirit of the audience. Those ones mentioned will do their jobs and get paid for it by their audiences. Their bellies justifiably push them on. But here we aren't pushed by our bellies, we are under a spiritual commission.

The adage, "He who pays the piper, dictates the tune" also applies here. This tune that may be foolishness to the hearer won't be paid for by an angry audience ready to stone you, rather by Him who commissioned you to go preach. O yes, He will use people first before having to make you pick money from the mouth of the fish, or before multiplying bread and fish to satisfy, but we are not to set our hearts or faith on the men, otherwise they will eventually start to dictate the tune. Customer isn't king in ministry, if we start to please men, we have been told it'll stop us from being servants of Christ even if we treat all men with love. We aren't selling the gospel. We are delivery men, postmen, we only deliver, not expecting payment from the receiver.

But just as Jesus Christ lived it out as the perfect example for us, it is God's supernatural responsibility to raise men and women who will, as ministering unto the Lord, minister to us out of their substance. It won't be everyone that'll do that and it won't be us who would choose those who would. God may leave a billionaire to send a poor widow with every need met. But it would be Him, not us, who determines those He had sent as givers to us. So we were told not to go from house to house, we are to depend on Him instead. A labourer is worthy of his wages so said Christ concerning preachers and He pays.

We must be convinced of these facts as we step out in obedience to the call. It is our convictions and not our convenience that'll determine how we endure the hardness that comes with living this way.

We shouldn't be deceived to thinking that it's all ease in ministry, it isn't and it won't be, except we had lost something along the way. We'll always have that period we'll have to trust God even for an insignificant need to prove our dependence on Him.

We were told to endure hardness as good soldiers of the Lord and not as those who entangle themselves with civilian affairs. A minister of God must know the difference between the things that please Him who enlisted him and those things that constitute civilian affairs in his life. And that will help him to know that being in ministry comes with hardness which must be endured. We must be convinced of this, otherwise every little problem or need will push us off track.

Men may be unthankful but we aren't working for men. They aren't our employers. They aren't the ones to judge us, they also don't have the responsibility of paying us. We shouldn't be covetous to begin to look at what they have been given by God even if through our prayer and intercessory efforts before God. We should be assured God owes no man, He won't keep what we deserve, He's a faithful employee and He pays.

Let's keep our convictions and pride. Let's depend on God's love and faithfulness. Let's learn quickly how both to be abased and to abound and to be content in all things as we await the coming of the Lord in our situations.

The job may look thankless but be assured that God won't be unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love. Be assured that those faithful brethren that He has raised to minister to us won't fail even if we won't look unto them. Be assured that He isn't one not touched by the feeling of our infirmities seeing He Himself was once hounded by tax collectors and had to resort to a miracle to pay... We are in good company.

Be assured that at that moment of being dumbfounded, the Spirit of God will instruct what to do to solve that problem. Wait for the instructions, wait for the leading of our Standby and Comforter, He won't fail, yield to Him and you'll see the salvation of the Lord.

And when we have to endure the hardness involved, don't go Awol, don't devise your own ways, it'll lead to error. Don't be like Judas. Be assured that He has a way planned out to meet the need before the need came, and it may not be what you think.

God sees your labours, keep at at it, keep up the good work, your labour in the Lord isn't in vain.

Good morning!

Can you please send this to your pastor and to other ministers around you, you won't know how much it'll bless them. Shalom


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Positioning for the Future

Monday Motivation: Positioning for the Future

I watched a powerful video of Jack Ma, the executive chairman of Alibaba, the largest online market site in the world, speaking at Hong Kong University. He made a very profound statement speaking about the challenge of future education. He said the future won't be knowledge driven as we have had it till now, but wisdom driven, revealed in independent thinking, in creativity and innovative thinking.

What that means is that competitions will shift from trading in only what is known to trading in what is understood and how those are used to solve basic problems.

It means perspectives to life, money, success and pursuits will all change. Even the definitions of work and the workplace will change. People are going to take new roles in other people's lives. Relevance will be redefined, roles will change and expectations and deliveries will be all new, all altered by the taking over of wisdom from knowledge.

Wisdom must be understood. I doubt if this generation has put enough premium on wisdom. We have enough knowledge to do things that will earn us a living. Doctors learn the surgeries and treatments, the accountant learns and knows what to do to balance the books, to audit and so on. The engineer is taught to design physical infrastructure and machines, and has now developed machines to take over from doctors, from the accountant and from himself, to design and manufacture things. In so doing man becomes redundant as the machines he develops take his job from him.

But one thing that man has the capacity of which machines will never have is original independent thinking. This is where wisdom has its edge. This is the new human muscle, his ability to generate wisdom. That's what the next generation would need.
Spiritually speaking, that too will eventually fail to give way to the human spirit to express its supernatural potentials in solving problems but the immediate future is beyond merely learning what has been discovered but deeper understanding of how those discoveries will interplay to create solutions.

We must be properly positioned to break through the barriers of imagination and innovation to solve our problems. One of the greatest problems the future will be presented with is man himself. The problem of the future won't be physical nor social but human as he develops rapidly beyond his freedom towards self destruction. A world where morality and ethics will be questioned and eventually jettisoned and its repercussions denied till the self destruct system in man is activated. Then the real value of wisdom will be seen and sought to save mankind from himself.

This is the time to begin to consider wisdom, to see it as the principal thing, to seek it out, to find and to keep it. It'll be the life saver when fools die.

This is the future. Wisdom is the future. In all thy getting, get wisdom.

Good morning. Have a great week ahead!

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Inspire Faith

Ministry Wednesday: Inspire Faith

The process of ministry receives from God and distributes or delivers to people so that people can in turn reconcile and relate with God on a personal level in communication and in conformity to His image.

The minister of God is sent with the word, every other gift is to support the ministry of the word. The ministry of the word is to inspire faith by declaring to the world, the love of God, the will of God, the grace of God in His omnipotence and wisdom and the eternal faithfulness of God to those who believe.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 10
12. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

15. And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

In declaring these things which we call the pillars of faith in God, faith arises in the hearts of men towards God.

We have so many things we can preach and teach but whatever we teach and preach should inspire faith in God, powerful enough to trigger a good relationship between the believer and God.

And not just what we preach and teach but what we do also. A minister ought to know that we are the primary confirmation of the word we preach. Acting contrary to the word we preach is as if saying those words are not true. If we believe what we preach, we will live accordingly, if we don't believe what we preach, we would not live accordingly, we will only live according to the word we believe.

Ministry is beyond the pulpit. Ministry is a life calling that inspires people to trust in the Lord through the words and the deeds of those who preach and teach His word.

Everything that a man of God goes through is designed to help project certain aspect of God, and in responding by the word of God and by His Spirit, people learn what to do when they fall into such situations themselves.

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 13
7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.


English Standard Version puts it this way...
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

It's very simple really, before a minister's faith would be imitated as designed by God, the way of life and its spiritual outcomes would first be considered.

A lifestyle contrary to God's word would hardly inspire faith, rather it'll harm the efforts of preaching the word of God.

We should not even try using the testimonies of out wealth and wellbeing as cover for an unhealthy spiritual life. Our faith is validated not by what we possess but by what we truly believe and practice. Or how do I know where or how you got your money, what if you deal drugs because of your lack of faith in God's providence?

A minister of God living a life of infidelity and corruption doesn't have faith in God. If he does, he should know that sin grieves God even if He forgives sin. But someone who doesn't even believe in God would care less if He is grieved. Such people's faith should not be followed, for it is shallow.

We need keep this in mind as ministers of God and we'll do well. May we inspire faith by everything we do.

Good Morning. May His grace abound with each of us in Jesus name. Amen

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Motivation Monday: Focus

Monday Motivation: Focus

Consistency with our assignments produces greatness. Consistency has its challenges though. These challenges are enormous. The essence of these challenges are sent to knock us off our consistency and get us to waver like the waves of the sea. When they succeed in shaking us off the schedules and routines of our assignments, we lose the stride of productivity and reputation and the outcomes is that we remain babies where we should have matured.

Consistency brings growth and development. We mature on the job and gather relevant experiences for innovativeness and problem solving. Consistency makes you a reference point and gives you a consultancy reputation to give counsel and mentorship to new entrants.

But the power behind consistency is focus. Focus is having concentration on vision. Setting one's eyes as a flint. The discovery of vision must come with blindness. Every good eye has a blind spot. You can't be seeing everything and be claiming having a vision. You have to see just the things you should see and be blind to whatever isn't on your vision pathway. Jack of all trades is often a master of none.


Discovering purpose is discovering who you are and the fruit expected of you by the Planter. By your fruit people will know you, but to bear the fruit, you must know who you are so as to know which fruit to process and to bring forth.

When you discover yourself and your purpose and assignment, and you know what input you must do to fulfil it, you have gotten a job of purpose you will have to be consistent with without distraction to make a success of.

There are distractions we must avoid as much as possible. For instance, we have multi talented people, and even those who aren't so talented can still develop skills beyond their basic potentials and that can constitute distractions. A footballer, who can also play music and dance, a sprinter who can also play football, a footballer who can also play golf, an actor who can also fly a plane etc...if you find yourself in such a situation, you must discover what your core is, in order to be able to manage things. Otherwise, failure may come from both. Trying to catch two birds same time may make one catch none.

There is also the distraction of pleasure. You shouldn't feel pain or boredom until you've accomplished your assignment, even if both are present. Of course, work may be boring and frustrating a times, the challenges of accomplishment are normal. That's what is called work, navigating around the troubled sea of purpose to achieve vision is work. Finding and working out solutions to challenges of change is what we are called to do. Seeking to relax when the job is yet to be done is a distraction. Entertainment can be a distraction. Holidays come only after work, you don't leave a mountain to climb ahead of you to go resting. Beware of the distraction of entertainment and ease. Life's journey doesn't always go through the path of least resistance, beware of seeking ease when you should be seeking solutions and accomplishments. It'll be a distraction.

Another kind of distraction is the job distraction. Sometimes we want to start working when we should be training. We are too eager to hit the road. Too eager to start earning and being on our own when we are yet to get all what we'll need for the journey. Be careful.

There is the distraction of leaving your core job to doing other people's jobs. With the passion of expressing your potentials, you are ready to do anything even if for free while leaving your own vineyard. Be careful. There must be a thorough balance in how you deal out help. Find a sound footing, put on your own safety gadgets before helping another person. When you are sure you have a solid footing, then you SHOULD stretch a hand to help someone too to safety. It doesn't mean you will have to be clean safe, to be able to help, beware also of selfishness but you need to be sure that the help you render won't undermine the delivery of what you were sent to deliver.

Without focus and concentration even a laser beam won't have an effect. Without focus, the strongest saw won't cut through, without focus a nail won't drive into the wood, without concentration the energy of the sun won't reach the earth. Without concentration you'll spread yourself too thin without enough depth to make any lasting impact.

Let nothing take the concentration of your effort away to mundane things that have no lasting impact. Discover your assignment and sit down to bring it to fruition, don't chase shadows, go for the core. Don't use packaging to cover for rottenness, don't be a whitewashed sepulchre only filled with dead bones. Focus on what's important and bear the fruits you were planted to bring forth. It takes focus to make an impact that will create effective change. Concentrate and a fire will be kindled that'll be hard to quench!

Good morning to you, have a lovely week.
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