The Mystery of Life (part 1)

Life is like a puzzle. All the puzzle pieces must be fix together to get the expected beautiful picture or a whole. In the cause of you picking, you may not like a particular piece but, you have to fix it irrespective of your desire. You know there are some that maybe good to you but it wont fit to a particular part. Well, most times we maybe wrong. But, the Maker Himself is never wrong. After the picking and fixing - the completion of this awesome journey - you will be glad to have humbly pick and fix every pieces. At this moment in your journey of life, you are exactly where you need to be. Believe it or not, you are! You may think: Others have gone ahead of me, I have gone ahead of others, I have been too slow in life - Absalom and Adonijah (sons of David) lost their lives because they were in a hurry to be king. I am suppose to be up there not here. But, this is not the final picture of the puzzle! Keep picking and fixing! If it was by choice, the Israelites won't have chosen the long journey over the Red sea. They have to go through that! Deuteronomy 8:2-5 (MSG)

"Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don't live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God's mouth. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child."

Then in verse 16:

"the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you."

You chose to be here, with the collection of choices that you've made along your path that brought you to this point. Even if it was a sinful mistake that brought you to where you are right now, they are all in the past. They are part of the puzzle too. Don't fight it! You can't change the outcome of those choices...you are here already! But, you can decide tomorrow! Live righteous and allow God! There is a reason you are here, There is a reason you are in this struggle, challenge, or time of darkness or wilderness...no one that won't pass his or her wilderness period in life. Life is giving you what you need to help you learn and grow into your true and higher being. If it were not so, God wont have allowed it in the first place. All stages are there to refine or brood on you for a better you in the glorious future. The "you" before isn't fit for the glorious future. The "you" has to refine or brooded upon as hen brood on her eggs for 21days until they are hatched. Check the life of Joseph: he had to be a slave and prisoner to become a better, humble leader. If not, he wouldn't have been a proud leader. Check the life of Moses: he had to be a Shepherd for years - learning how to lead a flock until he was ready to lead our Lord's flock. He was trained in the palace on how to write, so he wrote the laws and books. And the list goes on and on. If you want to move forward past whatever struggle you're facing, You need to first accept where you are by allowing yourself to be here, so you can stop resisting it and let go back into the divine flow of life. Most people would complain and be grieved over what they know they can not change. If after making knives or cutlasses, the maker ignored the sharpening process - where the knives have to go through harsh and thorough process - there won't be useful knives or cutlasses. Same with pottery works, blacksmith and Goldsmith works. Such is life! Allow God to lead you! Everything happens for a reason. Later, you will know why you have to go through such stages. In the very end when you look at the bigger picture and the "you" later, you be glad to know and allow God! You have a glorious future for your "future you" than you can currently believe. You have an awesome place in the destiny of this world. You are made for something greater! You are more powerful than you can currently believe, and Even if you don't believe in yourself, I believe in you! Good night! Apostle Julius Ikhide-Iyke Etaifo LiveOutLoud Nation Of Grace Ministries