Volume 55 Issue 1- January-February 2017 : Reality Hub

We have a system that breaks down time and of course bearing in mind all of the seconds, minutes and hours we think we have we plan ahead, we plan for weddings, we schedule time out with family members and friends, we mark out how and when we will start a family, to go for a doctor`s appointment, and we schedule and put a time frame on all our life events. And then before we know it it`s another year over and we re-do all of that again, plan ahead, make right wrongs, try again...and that`s life.

Is it life? Is this really the life we are all called to live 365 days a year? A life clearly marked out, framed within the constraints of the time we supposedly think we have at our disposal, its success predetermined by human ability, effort and maybe luck? Surely there has to be more right? Surely we can`t and shouldn`t have to go about the year trying to do life a certain way and only realize that it never really is enough...surely this 2017 has to be one of purpose right? Whose purpose? Our humanly dictated purpose or Gods designed purpose for our lives?

Our intentions and motives are good and right, but we forget the most important aspects to this life, that we should possibly take into account. A lot of people measure a good/ bad year by their achievements and failures. Surely it was a good year because you got married, possibly got your promotion and maybe added a new member to your growing family. 

Maybe you had a lot of things go your way and that to you IS THE LIFE you`ve always wanted and so life in 2016 surely was good according to you based on your experiences. 

For others 2016 wasn`t so much of a good year, in fact it was possibly bad at all levels. It may have been a year where their faith was tested, a breakdown of relationships happened, sorrow and pain beyond comprehension took center stage, maybe they had to forsake their dreams, maybe they lost people close to them and maybe they faced all manners of rejection, maybe everything they expected to come out of this year just didn`t happen so surely it was a bad year right?.

It`s okay to deem a year good or bad based on such life measurements, but how about we look at the bigger picture. Beyond the tangible things in this life, beyond what we have in our hand is what we have in the deepest part of us. 

That cannot and shouldn`t be measured by things that easily fade away, are predictable and we have no control over. Some achievements go beyond a fat pay cheque, but because that is all someone wanted and needed, they forgot to see that there was a greater purpose in what they had to go through. 

So instead of focusing on the purpose they falsely judge themselves and the situation. When someone does that they deny themselves the opportunity to experience the blessing hid within the unfortunate circumstance because they are too busy looking at the ‘if only`s``. 

Maybe you saved someone`s life as a paramedic, surely that was your biggest highlight, instead of moping about the promotion you should have gotten, think about the change you made to not only one life but many. Maybe you gave hope to someone who was literally hanging on by a thread, maybe you helped someone turn to God and believe again, yet you didn`t realize that maybe that`s all you had to achieve this year.

I am not saying we shouldn`t dream big, not at all! Dream your best but don`t forget purpose. Purpose comes in where and when we least expect it. The greatest thing about purpose is it is never about you, it wasn`t intended to be about you and sometimes your life events will be used and twisted a bit to carry out this purpose through you. 

See now this is a blessing and never a curse, no matter how intense it may be or what it may feel like. When you know about Gods love for you, you see His footprint in the sand and you realize He carries us though everything good and everything seemingly bad. And there is a purpose in that too. 

People get disappointed when the year ends because they feel they haven`t achieved everything they hoped to; THEIR plans didn`t work out, but what about Gods plans through you and FOR you? Maybe He did what He wanted to do for you and through you this year, so instead of  being disappointed thank God for all that happened and that which he may have not allowed. He always knows best! Trust Him for the desires of your heart, but sometimes it not for you to say how and when it should happen, but rather for you to TRUST that God works out everything in His time and in accordance to HIS purpose for your life.

Whatever this year may have been like for you it has come, and it will go, and you will have very many years like this one, but once you establish it within this system of time that  Gods PURPOSE should take center stage, then you will realize that GOD being the center of IT ALL is all that matters and the greatest joy and fulfilment comes from that knowledge and understanding

Often times we are so hard on ourselves and others, we get so preoccupied with material gain and possessions and we forget about the important things that make up life. Real life. 

You can make money and lose it in an instant. Don`t be hard on yourself just because you didn`t build that house, buy that care or marry that partner.  Are you not alive? Didn`t you feed your children this year and take them to school no matter how hard finances were... didn`t you TRY your best in all that was set before you…if you did then that was enough! Don`t beat yourself up about what you couldn`t do, if it wasn`t in your ability to change the situation or those people then why concern yourself?

I went through 2016 having had my fair share of storms, some days were bearable, and some were just too brutal. other days the sun shone brighter, and on other days it just wouldn`t stop raining, I tried to see purpose in both dark and well lit days, I felt God on some days, heard Him and on other days I wondered where He was.. But I preyed on. 

There had to be purpose in all that I went through surely nothing in this world is in vain and doesn`t happen by chance. this past year I learned to cry my eyes blue and was totally unashamed, I leaned to be human and at the same time to lean so hard on my father`s promises that had He not caught me when the bough was about to break, I would have completely fallen, but for 2016 I had to go through all that I had to go through because unbeknownst to us all there is purpose in all we go through.

So 2016 is but gone, now we have 365 days.....12 months....1 year in this year 2017. If there is anything you can do right this year it is to believe, to pray and to live. Everything else God will work out. BE your greatest achievement in 2017. See you on the other side.

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