Volume 65 December 2026-January 2026 : Reality Hub
DON’T GIVE UP….TIME IS NOW!
Author : Otshidile Onkabetse
I`ve met a lot of people who have given up on life, seriously given up on life. This is very disturbing because they still breathe and walk and can do a lot of things by Gods strength, yet they are oblivious to that.
Counting your blessings at a difficult time in your life is not easy, but it is the healthiest thing to do. When you learn to take your focus off the problem and place it upon He who created you, you will begin to see things clearly. Your battle is not to shame you, but to Lift Him high, it is not intended for your destruction, but rather for your perfection.
You cannot go on with a weight of doubt, hopelessness and regret on your shoulders…that is just too heavy a burden to carry. The time is now! Become too tired of feeling sorry for yourself and expecting others to do the same. There is so much you can do about your current situation. Whatever it is and however hopeless it may seem.
Get Up! The time is now...Embrace it!! Do yourself a favor and lose the ‘beggar`` mentality and stop relying heavily on other people because you seemingly ‘can`t` do things for yourself, let them help where it is necessary, we all need help. But it is time you push your weight around. Its time you get up and do something to make something of your life because God never intended it to be sad and a drag.
No, He wants only that we might have life, in abundance. I`m sorry I`m going to be a little blunt here, but a lot of people really need a blow of reality to their heads, and just maybe they will awaken from a self-induced coma. Where there is an appreciation of life`s battles and the greatness of God through them… there also lays an unutterable peace and beauty of life beyond your self contained zone.
Often times we put off things for a later date in the hope that they will be best suited for another time and setting and things would work better at a later date than earlier. So often with that we become victims of an extended period of procrastination which may eventually become a habit. Unbeknown to us we lose out on the best that life may offer, and we waste time and forget that the TIME IS NOW!!
I won`t dispute the fact that there are certain things that have a time frame and set dates to do them, like meetings and a whole lot of other things. Personal goals and ambitions may require a prescribed takeoff time as well. But the minute you find yourself being excited about something every time you think about it and the excitement does not see the light of implementation, then there`s a problem.
We cannot fully give up on life, when we have the next day to make up for what we couldn`t or didn`t do yesterday. We cannot ignore the challenges we must face in life. Sometimes it just doesn`t seem fair that others have it easy, smooth sailing, no tides, no storms, no huge rivers to swim across and no mountains to move. You may always have to fight hard to get things in life that are easily accessible to others.
Don`t let that pull you down, the same Grace has been given to us all. So challenges shouldn`t break us, this clay we are made of is a cut above the rest. see how a broken heart only pains, it doesn`t crack into a million pieces when we hurt, God made it so that our eyes will somehow overflow with tears, and these tears carry with them the pain we feel that`s why we feel comforted when we cry.
Mind you these tears undoubtedly fall on fertile ground. Because after a while the rainbow shines through after your storm is declared over. Our physical bodies are temples of Gods power, they cannot and will not crack or break with the scorching temperatures, nor will the body melt in the furnace of challenges, God made it so…and He gave us His presence and His Grace to be with us everywhere we go and in all that we do.
I always bring in the element of scripture to back up everything that I say. God`s truth is the whole truth and nothing else. He knew from the beginning what is, and what is to come. As the song goes: “Oh what needless pain we bear…all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer…”. There is so much that we think we can do on our own, for a change lets allow God to do be our everything this year, and allow Him to do everything for us because He is able.
Don`t be ignorant, be receptive of His truth and live it. God has made us spiritual, whether we chose to embrace that part of us or not. If he created us, we are a lot like Him. Let`s allow Him to make us everything He created us to be.
So again I say, the Time is now, for us to live the very best we can. Remember Eccleciates: 9:11: ……. “That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all…” Ends


