Challenges and what to do with them
What do you do when you face a challenge in your life?
Every person in life has
faced a difficult situation one time. Others are in them right now and others
are about to get in one now. You can hear some people giving testimonies on how
the conquered when they faced such a situation, the winning tactics, the lesson
they have learned and the vivid output of that crisis. It may be through
education, social life, marriage, business, politics, or any other area of
life. If you can trace among many people they really don’t know what to do
after them or when the situation is prevailing. Relationships have broken various
times and not know why, businesses have collapsed and not know why, and governments
failed and not know why. I used to read the book of Exodus in the Bible and
asked the question “why did it take many
years for the Israelites to cross that desert?” I don’t believe that God
was punishing them but whatever God intended for them to learn He did not allow
them to go forward until they grasped that idea. God was killing every slavery
nature from Egypt so that they can enjoy the promise land like free people and
not like slaves. My dear friend, “until
you learn something from a crisis you’re facing now you will remain in it
forever or die along the way to your bright future”. Stop your deadly
complains and grasp the important lessons
found in your passing troubles. Yes, they are passing and they won’t pass until
you harvest its fruits and dig out the trees of pains from roots.
Oswald Avery gave and interesting statement “whenever you fall pick up something” how
many times have you got a fall and not pick anything important? I believe that
nothing happens for nothing, whether you see it or not will always be
there.
The fact is that, no one can avoid a crisis in life. May be
if there is no sense of growth in your life. John Mason wrote “Paths without obstacles don’t lead to
anywhere important”. As long as you’re planning to have a fruitful life,
you can’t escape the obstacles and crises.
“The safest road to
hell is a gradual one-the gentle slope, soft under foot, without sudden
turnings, without milestones, without sign posts”
C. S. Lewis
Dr. David O. Oyedepo
wrote in his book Winning the War
against Poverty “challenges line up
the path of champions”. You can’t be a champ in boxing until you fought in
the ring and win. So, the problem for many
people is what to do when they face challenges. Do you quit? Do you complain?
HAVE A POSITIVE MINDSET WHEN YOU FACE A CRISIS
How do you
take a crisis? A curse? Have you ever heard some people saying “why me? This
queue of problems I’m tired of this life, God has forsaken me” and so many
other wrong sentences. This is just expression of pains that will never let you
see the truth about your crises.
“When we know that everything has two faces,
let us look at the bright side only”
Mahatma Gandhi
One day I thought how to get out of problem that
captured me that I can’t do my own stuffs well. I started to blame everything
around me then I quoted myself saying “only
when you blame you become lame” and “the
greatest opportunity of the person who is complaining in the wilderness is
death” I stopped the negatives thoughts and start to think how to enjoy. I usually
ask myself how can i successfully harness it, how can I get a lesson it
carries. At last I learned that I can
only become harder when I face hardship, the more you face hardship and
learn from them HARDSHIP will no longer be your problem.
Norman
Vincent Peale is right when he said “every
problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any
problems, you don’t get any seeds”.
John Mason
wrote “difficulty give birth to
opportunity” and Lord Kelvin said “when
you’re to face with a difficulty, you’re up against a discovery”
Do you know why eagles enjoy the storms while all other birds hide in
leaves and branches of the trees or run to their nests? An eagle uses the
raging storm’s wind to lift it higher. This gives an eagle an opportunity to
glide and rest its wings. That’s why an eagle is a king of birds. We can use the storms of life to rise to
greater heights. Achievers relish challenges and use them profitably.
Dr. Myles Munroe
When you’re
sensitive to the difficulty situation in life in a positive way, you can see
yourself cultivating a very strong character that will be useful in your
future. I remain optimistic that crises are the sources of many discoveries.
You can use them to discover your hidden potentials. SO
CRISES ARE SWEET;
“The highest reward for man’s toil is not
what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it”
John Ruskin
“Most of the significant things done in the
world were done by persons who were either too busy or too sick! There are very
few ideal and leisurely settings for the discipline of growth”
-Robert Thornton Henderson
“Without grains of gritty irritating sands,
there would be no pearls of great price”
Unknown
“The ultimate measure
of a man is not where he stands in the moments of comfort and convenience, but
where he stands at the times of challenges and controversy”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every
calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity”
Sir Winston Churchill
from the book SWEET CRISES
by SHEMEJI MELAYEKI
