Try

Monday Motivation: Try

I always remember the motivation our headmistress back in primary school always gave us. She would say, the reason why the session was divided into three terms was to say, try, try and try again!

To try means to summon enough courage, energy and resolve to attempt something beyond what's within one's immediate proclivities. There are things we don't feel we can do but among the things we should do. Left to us, we would rather not do them but now they have to be done.

A sick person without an appetite would have to try to eat, even if the least thing he or she wants is food, meanwhile, the energy and the nutrients from the food are needed for recovery.

The world we have today with all the advancement and development came about only by those who believe in the possibility of development, who also dared to take steps against all odds towards the vision of the faith in their hearts.

People who believe that there is a better country the Creator had embedded in the present and were ready to take the journey. They had all the odds against them, it didn't look like a worthy cause and it didn't appear as a viable course.

They had to defy their fears and the unbelief of society to reach out to the things others called impossible. I realised we would never know what's possible without trying the impossible. And until we try, we won't ever be able to do.

Imagine those who had the crazy idea of flying and who were foolish enough to try to make a flying machine with enormous risks.

Imagine those who believe we could tap electricity and had to try even paying with their lives.

Imagine someone who could think of bringing the television into Africa, when they were just getting their independence from the colonial masters.

Imagine thinking of a skyscraper in a nation like Nigeria amidst what people would call underdevelopment.

But life would remain stagnant and would never get to its potential until we try to go beyond where we are. Yes, there are things we see as limiting, but it has been proven to be mere illusions and facades, waiting for someone to dare them.

If we don't try, we don't need help. Grace makes things easy but it's for people who dare to do things others won't do. When we discover what God has kept for us, and we try to reach them, God will send the help He had stored up for such purposes to get us there.

What could you accomplish if you try? Maybe you need to start a business, write a proposal, go back to school, register for a course, register a company, make a marriage proposal, get married or have a child... Or may be you need to gain more grounds in your spiritual life and break off from the flesh that holds you down in sin... Don't say, you'd tried before and failed, try again...till you get it done...

Every failure shows us one more way not to do it...reducing the probabilities of failure... You're getting closer by every trial... You lose nothing for trying... Just try and try again, in trying you'll encounter help!

Hebrews 11
15. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Good morning, happy new week!