I hate to brag about my relationship with God but when you
have the sort of friendship like I have with God, you can’t help but brag about
it.
God has been a constant friend. At every point I need him,
he shows up. I was (because by faith I no longer am) at the point where I was
most confused. A young man of many talents but was a very confused one until
God showed up again today, directing me to watch a movies that has now inspired
me.
God has blessed my
hands so much that there is literally nothing I haven’t touch but this was my
very problem. I tried everything but couldn’t get myself to stick to anything
because I never really found full satisfaction. The things I really wanted to
do, I never could do or I tried and got discouraged halfway because I didn’t
see myself good enough to do them.
As a little boy, I didn’t do well in the field(playing
football) so growing up that way, rather than keep trying I gave up on football
and settled to keeping less male friends who were football fanatics to avoid being
amidst discussions about football that I wouldn’t be able to contribute to.
As a teenager, all I wanted to do was be a doctor. Not for
the title, not for the pay, but for the love of putting smiles on the faces of
people. Restoring families together and by Gods ability in me, fixing “broken”
people. All these dreams came to not because I felt I wasn’t good enough. I let
people tell me I wasn’t good enough. I let society tell me I wasn’t good
enough. I let my fears tell me I wasn’t good enough and ended up settling for
less. “It’s still under the same faculty- COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES” I would
console myself. “What course do you study?” people would ask. “MEDICAL
physiology” I would respond. I convinced myself that this was Gods destiny for
me. So, while my mates re-sat for the JAMB examination to get into medicine, I
told myself “In 4years you would be a graduate and those ‘medicine students’
would still be in school”.
This is the very same thing a lot of us do. Yeah... no
doubt; Physiology may be or is Gods destiny for me but until God speaks audibly
and says “do not study medicine”, I do not see any reason why I shouldn’t after
my first degree.
N.B:
Ones destiny is not tied to the course one studies
A lot of times we tell ourselves what we want to hear rather
than what really is.
Your case may not be academic but whatever be the case, one
thing you should always remember is this: ‘God’s thought towards is to bring us
to an ‘expected end’ ’. Your current position may be ‘good’, but until
excellent is no longer an available option, good remains ‘just good’(3rd
place to the best- Excellent) and we serve an excellent God so, we too can be
excellent in every aspect of life. We can be the best we want to be- God
willing.
I was inspired to write today after watching the movie of a
book I had read a long time ago ‘Gifted Hands by Ben Carson’. I would leave you
with this phrase Ben Carson’s mother always told him “You can do anything
anyone else can do, only you can do it better”.
Stay blessed.
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