It Has Always Been All About God!

It is amazing what a paradigm shift can do to you.

In the course of our journey through life, we tend to take a lot of things for granted; the people God has placed in our lives, the fact that we have food to eat and a place to rest our heads at night, waking up in the morning, being able to sleep at night, but the greatest thing we take for granted is God. There is nothing we take for granted like God. Our opinion of grace has made us the most powerless, undisciplined Christians of all time. We take sin for granted; we take mercy for granted; we take the forgiveness of sin for granted. We have become lazy, uncaring, self-centered, prayerless, Word-less.

I have been thinking a lot these days, especially last night.

In my struggle to grow out of a poor self-image, to be healed of the damage depression had wrecked in me and to gain self-confidence and self-love which I was totally lacking, I had become lost in the process and elevated myself and my healing to become the most important thing in my life. It had become all about me, and God had become the medium through which I would actualize my higher self and bring that higher self forward for the world to see. I had become self-centered, an unknowing new-ager. Don’t get me wrong; it was very important that I did this. It is important that we all break away from the yoke of depression, of poor self-esteem and confidence and so many other things that the that the devil uses to bind us to himself and keep us functioning below optimal performance or not at all, to keep us from ever fulfilling our purpose and mandate in life. But I lost my focus along the way, forgetting that God is not a means to an end, God IS the End. I had some serious soul-searching and repenting to do.

Four, five years ago, though I was down psychologically, my heart was clean. When I met highly spiritual people one of the first things they noticed about me was that I had a beautiful spirit, a good, beautiful heart. I wondered what it was they saw. I still don’t know fully, but I know this one thing; my thoughts about and motives towards people were pure, and no matter what anyone did to me, no matter how grave it was or how hurt I was, I never got offended, and a lot was done to me believe me. I could be so hurt and spend the night crying in pain, but I still would not feel offended, and I would let the matter go quickly and never hold the person to book for it. I would be aware of the damage a person was doing to me behind my back and still relate to the person in love. All this changed a few years ago and I began to be offended by very little things; even the way a person looked at me or talked to me would set me off, much less bigger things like back-stabbing and slander. That was pride in the making. Pretty soon my heart, once filled with light in spite of the darkness of my life, began to darken. I would brood for days over an offence and I found it very difficult to forgive. It all has to change. Now.

I have just come to the realization that it is not about us, it is about GOD and His kingdom! This life is not about us. It is not about our pride, or our comfort, or what we like or dislike, or who did what to us, or how we feel, it’s not about all these trivialities. There is a higher purpose to our lives than who we are or what we can achieve. There is the high calling of GOD in our lives, every one of us! We will never ever be happy or fulfilled until we find Him and live to Him. There is a purpose to everything you have been through. Don’t let the story of your life be wasted. Only God can make it all worth it, only if you allow Him.

Again, IT IS ABOUT GOD AND HIS KINGDOM. This was all Jesus taught about when He walked this Earth. We must go back to the principles of the Kingdom that Jesus and the apostles taught. We must go back to study the Word of God and find out what we ought to do.

Prophet Maseke Daniels made a statement; he said “life on earth, no matter how long or short, is just for a time, but the life you will live after this life is forever; and it is what you do with this brief moment in time on this side of forever that will determine where you will spend eternity, and the quality of life you will live on the other side.”

Christians have an escapist view of Heaven. We tend to believe that all that counts is that you make Heaven and escape Hell. We forget that even when we make Heaven; it is what we do on Earth that will determine the quality of life we will have in Heaven. Because of the way certain men lived, gates in Heaven were named after them, not after great Angels or any of the 24 Elders. We will not all be crowned equally and how we live on earth is the sole determinant of that. Nobody wants to go to Hell, yet so many will end up there, even Christians. Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but sadly not everyone will end up there. God has provided the Way in Jesus Christ, but you are the sole determinant of where you will be in the end.

We must renew our minds; we must hit the reset button. We must build up a new mindset based on the Word of God. We must leave all trivialities aside and be focused on God and His kingdom. We are already in the end. It is upon us already. We expect it to be graphic like an action movie, but by the time it becomes clear that we are right in the middle of it, many souls would have been lost to the wrong side of eternity.