Half measure...

There are very few people I know who apply themselves to make the most of every opportunity presented. It has become a norm to encounter people who have high expectations of life, yet feel demotivated to do everything with an enormous appetite to succeed. These are the ones who usually complain and eventually regress into the doldrums of life where they are neither challenged nor remotely accessible. Yet, one of the key secrets to life is that one cannot remain in the same place as you were before for too long. One cannot remain satisfied with nothingness when you possess great potential which can not only change your own destiny forever, but also those close to you.

I have often desired to understand the psyche of those who do everything half measure. Inevitably I understand that they will find someone to blame, find solace in identifying an episode from their childhood or resurrect something from their past to serve as a reason for their lack of motivation. Whether validity exists in the cranium of our excuses is quite frankly neither here nor there. We need to understand that we will not progress very far if everything we do is done half measure or with a heart diluted with fear and ambivalence. If it requires one to address the past and lay the remains of a distorted past to rest, then we need to do so in order to live a life which measures up to our expectations.

The road which leads to success is often riddled with challenges, but too many people have become trapped in having breakdowns along the way or they abandon their dreams with the excuse that they might take it up later. Life is to embraced with vigour, with a determination to not only succeed, but to ensure that one lives a life without regrets yet one budding with opportunity to become more than you are.

God's adjective

Adjectives… those words we were taught which describes an object. We use these words to describe our feelings, it flows from our mouths without the batting of an eye and yet we manage to explain to others the intensity or the lack of our feelings for others. It shades, shapes, explains and puts in perspective the way we see and construct the world around us.

Can you imagine that within the economy of God’s vocabulary, action is not meted merely in terms of words? In fact, with every word God speaks He has a corresponding action. Yet, there can be no greater adjective God could have used to show all of the inhabitants of the earth, those long deceased, those currently in the land of the living or others yet to be born, just how intense the magnitude of His love was for all of us. The adjective most profoundly used by God was not encapsulated in mere words, but it was embodied when He sent His only begotten Son called Jesus. Jesus remains the greatest adjective ever used, bringing clarity to the corrupt discourse of a fallen world. Not only did He come alongside the object, meaning us, but He also surrounded us – He became God with us.

While His earthly life was brief, His impact remains incomprehensible and His ways remains forever loftier than the total sum of all our intellectual properties. Yet, when He left the restrictions of this earth, He left us not as an orphan, but in the hands of One who guides us in all truth. The work done by the Spirit of God is as significant as that of an adverb, because it is the adverb that simplifies the meaning of a verb, meaning an action. The Spirit of God makes the complexities of life simple by ensuring that every action savoured by the Spirit brings change, meaning and endurance to life which has the ability to drain us.

So, to understand the meaning of love, to understand God who is love, we need to follow the pattern of the adjective [Jesus] and his corresponding adverb [Holy Spirit]. God did not merely send His Son, He framed love by allowing the Son to be the extent of His love for us.