TRUST YOUR STRUGGLE

Hello my people, it's been a pretty long time since I posted here. So today, I'm thinking about you, dear reader. I've missed you and I feel like sharing this with you; things I've been thinking about. You know sometimes, you want to see the end of all the trials in your life at a glance but still see them stare at you when you look in the mirror. Well, you're not alone in this. Trust your struggle. God is working things out for you.

Let me tell you a story.

Surrounded by towering soldiers of high repute, a young man stood at the crossroads of destiny. David; this fine faced shepherd boy stumbled upon a national assault upon his people; a defining contest where older siblings and country folks were hiding under one another’s skin, rolling their eyes and asking “who will go for us?”.

Who wan die?

For that fragile moment, fear turned men into boys and small boys had that flash of opportunity to graduate into men if they had the slightest courage to face Goliath.

You see, Goliath, Israel’s at-the-moment nightmare, is just life. With its height of challenge and confrontation, it’s always calling men for a fight. And too many are scared because they have no experience with small victories. Too many depend on their strength and are failed too often. But real men have back up. And they brag with the source of their confidence.

So David appeared on the stage, full of guts. “What shall be given to the man who kills this uncircumcised philistine?”

But the thing is this.

Something had been giving him confidence.

It was his ANTECEDENTS.

The things he had passed through, his previous  
successes, the Trust he had in his God.  He had faced many battles before he came face to face with Goliath. He had trekked in the forest, watched and slept in the midst of danger, guarded his flock and so on. The time he killed a Lion that came after his father’s flock, the biceps of his courage grew by one inch. And there was no announcement. The time he killed a bear, his fear was further drowned and his faith grew. And nobody printed a poster.  No. Not even on CNN or BBC.

And when it was time to finish off Goliath, he drew on his antecedents. He remembered how he tore the Lion and the Bear, how God had assisted him in weightier matters and he lunged forward towards the Giant. His siblings tried to shout him down but it was too late. His antecedents were fluent in diverse tongues. Before a blink, he had the giant’s head for a trophy!

But Today.

Many of us have no story because we are afraid and needing a pat on the back too often. We want to be spoon-fed at every point of our life. Instead of trusting our struggle, we eat our dinner in the morning, fold our hands and have someone sing us some lullaby of how great we could be. We then levitate in our minds and wonder why life is giving us a knockout.

The truth is simple. The person you admire today as a medical doctor was once a medical student and had cold chills about exams. The person you admire his duplex today and attended his house warming was once a squatter. The person who owns that company you work in was once jobless. The person driving in that Mercedes Benz you love once trekked the streets climbing bikes. The Professor you respect today once had a difficult moment as a student in school. The author you love today once went up and down looking for publishers.

Be patient. Trust the little things you’re doing today; the silent frustrations, the effort you’re making, the ideas, the networking, the sleepless nights. Enlarge your territory. Learn new strategies. Connect with people better than you.

Believe in yourself and the God that makes small things great.  

Those small things you think do not matter will soon become matters arising.   

And soon. Very soon. 

You will be the next big thing happening.

You have everything it takes to be outstanding.

Shine! Excel! Be You!