Whatever one wishes, undertakes to
do or plans to do or achieve as he
grows up; whether in the beginning, in
the middle or in the end or towards
the end or throughout the path of the
journey, there will always be some
kind of a hindrance/obstacle.
But through it all, it does not matter
how weak, strong or persistent the
hindrance may be, but the truth is that
the dream, vision or the goals you
have set up will never die as long as
you are alive.
The obstacles on the way towards your
dream will never change the content of
the dream.
♥ A hindrance or obstacle may be in
one of the two forms.
One of the forms of obstacles is the
one which is specifically designed
to prevent you from reaching your
goals or dreams.
♥ The other one is specifically
designed to facilitate your way
forward towards fulfillment of your
dreams. This form of an obstacle is
merely not an obstacle, but it acts
like a frictional force which sounds
like some kind of difficulty in your
way while it helps you move on
with your way. Even though you
may be dreamless or visionless,
this one will fall upon you like the
rain falling upon both the evil and
righteous people of the earth
because if you cannot identify your
dream, God is always having one
for you, therefore this form of
frictional force will move you even
without your will until you realize that
you have to position or align yourself
with the will or the plan of God for
you.
The two forms of hindrances can also
be grouped or divided into three
categories which are as follows:
The Past, The Present and The Future.
The past and the present work
together for the future, therefore it is
difficult to move on with life if you do
not know your past. Sometimes people
have to be reminded of their past so
that they can foresee their tomorrow.
Before you realize who you are today,
you have to remember the rock from
which you were hewn. Isaiah51:1-8
Before Jeremiah realizes who he is as
compared to this situation, he has to
be reminded of his initial design.
Jeremiah 1:4,10,18,19.
If you want to boost your confidence
against anything on your way, you
should look at Jesus as your mirror
image so that you can face this
situation with confidence.
Before Jesus became flesh, dwelt
among us, went through trials and
tribulations , he was not the flesh, but
he was God the King of kings,
therefore though in flesh, he does not
conform to the flesh desire so that he
can re-claim or regain his kingdom.
In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word
was God…John1:1
The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his
glory, the glory of the One And Only,
who came from the Father, full of
grace and truth…John1:14
How bad or terrible your life today
cannot change who you are tomorrow.
You don’t have to determine or
anticipate/ predict your future on the
bases of your:-
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 background, how bad you feel about
yourself today, mistakes you have
done along the way, how many times
you have failed, sickness or anything
that comes against your way forward ,
but if you want to move on with your
life, you must first remember the rock
from which you were hewn.
Remember your Creator in the days of
your youth. Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
You must also remember your parents
who stand in the place of God for you.
Children, obey your parents in
everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Colossians3:20
The present is the now part of your
life. The now part of your life is how
you feel about yourself today. It is
what you are going through right now.
It is the decision you are making right
now.
The most of difficulties you are going
through right now are not your
mistakes. You don’t have to blame
yourself of anything. Forgive yourself
of your past and decide to live life
which is free of regrets and blames.
Make up for your mistakes, make
peace with people you hurt in the past
so that you can have peace without
any debt.
The present tends to be more powerful
in terms of hindering you of your
future than the past can. Therefore
make a sure foundation of your future
today.
Identify who you are; and what you
want; and also find out how long will
what you want last ;and how will it
help you today and in future. And
finally make plan to fight against
hindrances as you move on.
There are two types of people who live
in our midst today, some are those
that have their goals achieved by just
gaining whatever they have gained
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Proverbs 6:32
today and then wait what the next
day holds for them. It is easy for them
to use up their lives in just one day.
They are living by chance. The most of
them make a living or income by
chance.( crime, prostitution, drugs
etc.) And
there are those that have their goals
or vision fixed in a certain month,
months or years from now on.
In a period between the years when
the vision/dreams/ goal will be
accomplished, they would work hard to
have it accomplished.
Some would give birth to a dream or
vision, but it would take them too long
to grow it up to a matured man.
There are also some other basic goals
that everyone is expected to achieve
or reach at a certain stage of life such
as:
completing grade 12, tertiary
education and than be employed or
self employed, get married and have a
family. And before these goals are
reached or achieved, there is a series
of hindrances or obstacles that apply a
certain amount of force against the
way forward towards fulfillment of
those goals.
Due to so many challenges in life, the
most of the youth don’t reach the
point where they say they have
achieved their goal, vision or dreams.
That they can’t have their visions
fulfilled does not mean that their vision
is dead, but the problem is a distance
between now and the point where the
dream can be reached.
Now as the youth of this age, you have
all your goals, dreams and visions set
up, and it is a fact that there are
hardships along the way that you have
to go through before you reach your
dreams.
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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs12:15
And Now the question that remains is:
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GO
THROUGH THE HARDSHIPS?
There is a lot of basic, common and
dominant challenges that face the
youth in one way or the other as they
grow up in different places. And the
most of these challenges are
dangerous because they taste sweet in
tongue and turn deadly poison in the
stomach, therefore it does not sound
like challenges to the youth, but the
parents are regarded as those
challenges instead. Those challenges
are:
prohibition of corporal punishment,
disobedience/ lack of respect for
parents(adults) and or people of their
age or younger age than them, sexual
relationship before marriage, drugs
and alcohol, prostitution, pornography,
gays and lesbians freedom, freedom to
operate on their free state.
And a huge mistake that the youth do
is that they think those challenges are
facing their parents when they are
actually facing and dealing with
themselves in details because when
they engage themselves in those
challenges, they either hide for their
parents or just move on with their
lives thinking in the expense of their
parents while it is actually vise versa.
The most persistent challenge in this
age is a cloud that rains down all of
these challenges to the youth as
vulnerable as they are which is
democracy-related laws which gives a
platform for all these challenges that
the youth are faced with.
The more the technology and
democracy-related laws advance, is
the more the challenges against the
way forward of the youth multiplies
from most difficult point to the point
where there will be no way forward at
all;
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27
therefore there is no need for you to
blame yourself of living in this
generation where you find yourself
growing and squeezed within legalized
and disorganized generation.
Showers and flashes of hindrances.
1.1 Authority to divorce.
The family is your kraal within which
you have to grow irrespective of any
challenge or experience the marriage
is going through, and outside there is
a serpent who groans like a lion
looking for someone to devour.
It is a fact that a serpent do
sometimes find some leaks and break
into the kraal and steal some people
from within the family or kraal, but it
is worse when there is no family at all
or when marriage has been broken
down. Because
When a well-organized family or
marriage is destroyed, another one
which is not well organized is formed
and that kind of family is a den and
the play ground for such family is the
street. And the goal or achievement
for such a family is prison and or death
eternal if Jesus has not been allowed
to intervene.
Therefore bear it in mind that without
God, family protection and or parental
guidance or control, you will reap pain
instead of goodness and mercy.
2.2. Youth, stripped of protection.
As the youth of this age, it must not
depart your mind that you are naked
of power if you don’t have any source
of control of your actions or a leader in
your life. The first of which are your
parents who know your strengths and
weakness from the day you were born
to this point in time. They are the kind
of leaders who have the dream to have
you alive and well until you accomplish
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If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked. Proverbs 29:12
your dreams and vision. They are the
one’s who stand by your side to help
and support you fulfill your dreams,
but sweet venom would stop all of that
so that you are fully exposed to
anything that could jeopardize your life
now and in the future.
Be vigilant of democracy which comes
in a skin of a lamb while its aim is to
strip you of your protection and future.
Parental control, guidance or
leadership (including corporal
punishment) which is now appearing
as hindrance to the way forward of the
youth, is the same one that cooked the
most successful people of today which
includes the leaders of this age.
Therefore forgoing such basic and
indispensable foundation of the future
will cause a failure to reach your goals
or you might reach your goals, but
there will be a crack in whole of your
success.
That is something that you can witness
that an umbrella that protects you
from heavy rains of life has been
removed by democracy for you so that
you are fully exposed to any danger or
harm.
It does not make any difference how
you clean up, decorate the pig and
give it the freedoms and right to live in
house with people because the natural
life of a pig will never be stopped by
you cleaning up, decorating and giving
it the right to live in house with you.
What could happen is that you suffer
the consequences.
It does not make any difference how
you justify sexual immorality, because
the end result will always be suffering.
as the nation is suffering of aids,
teenage pregnancy and dropping out
of school before studies completed
which all yield to skills shortage and
poverty. And even if you go without on
this earth, there is still suffering
waiting for you after this life you are
enjoying using up right now.
If justice has been granted immorality
for you to commit, then, there will be
no justice for you in hell. Jhn16:23-24
But if you deprive justice to any
immorality then you have justice
waiting ahead of you in this life and in
the life after this. John16:22
But justice to immorality will expose
you to aids, sti’s, marital problems as
young as young as you are, prison,
death eternal, failure to accomplish
your dreams and vision an so forth.
There is justice for your action to kill
(termination of pregnancy), but you
have no justice with God who can hear
the voice of blood.
Condom & Family planning may justify
your sexual immorality, but aids will
never have justice on you until you
plead for justice from God your Maker.
It would be better for you to be
infected with aids and repent rather
than to be its host, distributor, die and
wait in abyss where there is crying and
grinding of teeth.
There may be justice granted to sexual
immoralities like: gays and lesbians
relationships, prostitution, sexual
relationship out of marriage and so
forth, but there is also wage waiting
for any kind of immorality committed.
It is better to have the standards of
morality of your life set by the one
who made you than to be regulated by
people who are not regulated by God.
If you are growing under full parental
control which includes corporal
punishment, you would not be
exposed to drugs, alcohol, poverty,
crime and so forth.
You are being robbed of your wisdom,
life and future, and you like and you
enjoy it because this kind of hatred is
very sweet in taste.
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