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Take positive responsibility of your life

Opinion & Analysis
Oftentimes you get puzzled at some people’s languid approach to life.

Oftentimes you get puzzled at some people’s languid approach to life.

Devotion with Erasmus Makarimayi

There are people that appear so resigned to addressing issues of their life. Because of the overwhelming challenges faced on earth there is a tendency to wait for someone else to intervene and lift us out of the miry waters.

While you need people to stand with, the initiative to succeed has to come from you. You have to be responsible with your life. Life demands that you be present and participate in it charting the way forward. You should not gamble with your life by surrendering it to outsiders.

Don’t cede ownership of your life; life is not lived by proxy.

It appears the donor syndrome has affected us so much that we don’t want to be involved in the strategic thinking and defining of our future.

While your friends, advisors or mentors may be compassionate about your destiny, they cannot substitute you.

Even your pastor or prophet cannot be your proxy. It is you that will need a spouse, houses, cars, food, shelter and clothing. So study, pray and fast. Others can pray and intercede for you, but you have to pray and fast for yourself.

Study for yourself, no one will write the examination for you. Work for yourself, no one will work for you while you snore in your bed. Don’t be so crazy about miracles. Miracles will come, but will not substitute the execution of your planning for your life.

If you appreciate the price and value for something, you will be able to handle and care for it. There are things that people receive on silver platter from well wishers and handle without due care.

Sometimes we are so wasteful because we don’t appreciate the process that brought certain things in our lives.

Learn to be caring and responsible in life. Whatever you receive in life whether miraculously or by inheritance should be cared for as if you worked for it. If you partake in anything you acquire, God will bless you and credit you just as if you were instrumental in its making.

Whatever you inherit, inherit it responsibly and work to improve it and pass it on in better shape or develop a better one to hand over to the coming generations.

God structured life in such a way that you can never be absent from your destiny. In case everything was passed on to you, God will arrange a separate class for you. This is seen in the way God gave the Promised Land to the Israelites.

There was virgin land left for those who were not yet born at the time of the conquest. Judges 3:1-4 reads, “[1] Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; [2] Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; [3] Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. [4] And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”

As you look for the virgin territory in your life, don’t complain and accuse those before you for having not done something about it.

God left it for you and gave you the grace to do it. So there is no need to grumble and despise your parents for having not bought properties. They dealt with issues of their time.

The duty is now yours. They failed to buy one house, now buy more than one. God is faithful to reserve at least one battle for you lest there be generations that will come and be partying and be merrymaking. In case your parents and forefathers left so much that you think your duty is to squander, you are creating disaster for the generations to come.

The third generations from you will be beggars. If you have been away from your life, return and join the party and take the reins. Your life is going on, you cannot afford to miss it. Don’t wait for outsiders to chart the course for you.

If helpers have resuscitated and given you a push, it is now time for you to stand on your own. You are going somewhere.