By Roundoffnews
Each year comes with different strokes of tell tale challenges that are enough to contend with. As we approach another year, have you taken stock of how far you have gone? Did you have a landmark of how far you want to go in one area of life or another? Are you truly aware that your life , I mean your entire God given life is already burning out like a candle or perhaps rolling by like a dream being told? Let me intimate you sincerely, only a fraction of human population has the awareness that keeps tab on their day to day activities. This is why there are a lot of rooms for losses, procastination, failures, regrets and consequently jealousy.
The bottom line of it all indicts all and sundry how we order our lives.in a life of just a hundred and twenty years according to Genesis 6:3, or to make it worse Psalm 90:10. Which earmarks seventy (70) years and extra ten (10) with severe stress,tell me how do you prioritize your life?
Only a handful of human population scale decades and generations without having an iota of regrets and had I know.
By the time one moves from the teenage years now to adulthood one begins to ruminate over past mistakes and how much difference one would have made if one were really this wise! You can almost experience this in which ever age bracket you are or you have passed.The difference we deffered ignorantly and could not meet up again are as a result of the importance we place on the use of our time and the prioritization of our life’s goals.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, politician,legal luminary and a sage of all time was quoted to have commented gravely about the incidence of man’s use of time thus ( for any man who sleeps for six (6) hours a day and had been blessed to spend a hundred years (100), has inevitably slept for twenty five (25) years (paraphrase).
Now think about billions of people who have far less numbers of years to spend on mother earth with the uncharitable low level of life expectancy forty six years (46) in a place like the sub Sahara Africa.He made d whole world realized that time at his disposal were frugally dispensed with pondering over the nation’s problems and solutions he will proffer to solve them while some other men spend their time giggling over bottles of liquor and caressing women of easy virtues (paraphrase)
People are so careless about the use of their time to the extent that they have time for vain visitations, conversations , jesting, gossip and what have you. Some women will see off one another just on a short visit and stroll throughout the length and breath of the neighborhood. Sometimes you can only identify who is seeing off who by a stroke of guess work or by the difference in the attire (that is meant for outing and the other for the bedroom or kitchen! Why? The one in the kitchen apparel has strayed far off to the gate of the neighbors who come on visit.
As a woman ( No matter the religion one needs to apply moderation to everything. A woman with three or four kids between the ages of 8-14 needs to realize that as the children progress towards age 18 legal age of self determination or age of consent so to say, limits to regular contacts and communication between parents and children are advancing,when the kids will fly out of the home like freshly weaned birds.As some of them go to various higher institutions others may go for some stop gap vocation or part-time job to make some prime savings before setting out for schools.
If they lap into new frontiers with their age, time will pose it’s unexpected challenges that make it (time) intractable for all men.
One wonders how much time a widow/widower has every day to raise a viable family even in the absence of financial incapacitation. Several studies the world over have shown the adverse impacts of broken homes on the lives of children whose lives turned upside down owing to lack of effective parental upbringing.
Neither takes responsibilities for the moral upliftment of their products since things have fallen apart, I made these allusions first to show how much time single parents will need to dissipate on the products that would (if they like) be viable citizens in the nearest future.
No captain of a ship giggles over a bottle of rum in an inclement weather.A stormy sea is a red alert signals for all the crew on board such ship. As the captain monitors the electronic signals on the dash boards,the engineer remains glued to the panel for any distress that may rear up it’s head midsea.
Our lives are in no way different from these narratives as parents,fathers,mother’s,uncles,brothers and sisters We have taken a lot of things for granted in both our distant and recent pasts yet we have another opportunity in the coming years to make a resolution how we want to prioritize our time and even our preferences.
Having left undone those things which we ought to have done why cutting unprofitable exercises while courting unprofitable exercises.
We have taken so much time in chattering and gossip about how a neighbor got the money to build a new house, bought a new car, married a new wife or even sent all the children abroad or to private schools! Tell me for God sake what is our business about that or how much does it contribute to our welfare? These are all godless chatter which Apostle Paul (refers to as old wife tales). We need to take more time to ruminate over our lives’, progress, failures, successes etc..and pray for wisdom on how to advance or change directions in our day to day activities.For a man who values his time every minute counts for self examination and evaluation.
A man or woman who does this,will find it difficult to raise himself/herself in terms of evaluation above others if he has his compound full of state of the arts vehicles,yet he will think highly of neighbors who have none. Except for the person who is late,life does not give room for any mortal to toy with time when he or she has several hills and mountains yet unconquered.Most of the problems we take to churches and mosques in prayers are self inflicted.Nothing says we should neither fast or pray but we need to play our God given roles first, instead of passing all the buck ti coding prayers alone
Time consciousness does not imply that we will work 24/7 like the hand of the clock but that we will take our time to do away with those things that have no bearing to our lives.
Then we will have more time for those things that truly pertain to us.Jealously and envy, bickering and hatred , selfishness and greed will take their exit through the back door from our lives unnoticed.we will have more peace and joy,we will be able to know God in is mult-dimensional ways that he cares for us all at the level of our needs. Other people’s blessings and attainments will stop being our wants.
Think more about yourself and talk less about others. Our business places could better remain so if we do away with ceaseless chatting and laughing for nothing. A time of serious awareness calls for giving what God for God and what is ceaser’s for ceaser, for Christians let your yes be yes and let your no be no.
Enough of past misdeed that led us astray. Through unbridled gossip and chatting in the neighborhood several people especially women have lost their destiny helpers through their flippant comments about how a neighbor runs the course of his or her life.Your time is your wealth,the more you devate time to yourself the more you stay out of trouble. It’s high time we realized that a good number of our idle time belongs to Satan. These idle moments perforate our lives and destinies.
If we employ the use of our time in a more viable way,the pastors and prophet will have some rest.
Counseling centers will flourish with great relief,the mountains and hills we flocks ceaselessly will experience some vacations. Men of God will have more time for spiritual assignment instead of worldly affairs that often turn their backs to their creator.