A Turn or A Detour?

Hi Friends,

Have you set out on a highway in an off-peak period or an expressway on a Sunday morning only for you to be confronted by an enormous traffic ahead? Have you ever being so convinced about a project, an endeavor and no sooner had you started, than you are faced with some seeming overwhelming challenges and difficulties that make you doubt your conviction and reassurance about the project?

When God created the heavens and the earth, He had eternal bliss in mind for man; unhindered access to him, a life void of pain and challenges but as this was evolving beautifully, man fell and the whole agenda looked threatened. Did that stop what He had in mind? No! With God,even failure WILL become part of His agenda for success. He had an eternal agenda even before the world existed and nothing could have stopped it….Woohoo!

Many a times, as human beings, when we start out an endeavor: ( a new job, marriage, project, business), each time we hit a difficulty, we begin to question if God was in it in the first instance, if we heard Him right, if we took the right decisions, if we married the right person, if we made the right career move, if the relocation was right etc. The presence of difficulty does not imply the absence of God in whatever journey you are on right now. A difficulty should not cut your dreams apart; neither should a challenge shatter your aspirations.

Have you noticed that when you are in a very serious traffic, most times the other side of traffic is usually free and fast moving? And for you to be on that moving side, you would have to turn around! Turning back wouldn’t take you to your destination; it only takes you back to where you started from!
In a fallen world, things do fall apart but as they do, from the roughest particles of debris, there can emerge the greatest masterpiece of a building.

Friend, be encouraged on your path irrespective of the delays, the denials, the disappointments, the disruptions, the dilemmas and the distortions. Life may thrust you into a detour route; but taking a detour is simply the act of going or traveling to a place along a way that is different from the usual or planned way. Be assured it'll only take you further to your destination!

Stay on Top!

 The Pen

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