I believe in Daniel 12:3
This is one of the
scriptures that I always hold dear to my heart. It reminds me that it’s worth
the effort. It says:
“Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the
heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and
ever.”
Wisdom is precious and
rare. Some believe in gaining it from experience. This, to me, is not entirely
true. We have a lot of people who go through experiences and still come out the
same way. Just experiencing something alone means nothing to you unless you
become very intentional about it and learn from it. That way, it makes you
wiser. They say failure is only beneficial if it helps you learn how not to
make the same errors that could have yielded to failure.
I’m of the school of
thought that wisdom comes from following the teachings and precepts of Jesus.
The teachings of Jesus if followed diligently leads to a stream of wisdom that
goes beyond explanation. With such wisdom, we are able to influence those
around us to good living, righteous life, and themselves to have their own
journey of following Jesus. If you do this, lead many to righteousness as the
scripture highlights, you will shine like stars forever and ever. If you live a
life of love, service with humility, forgiveness, and on and on, you will shine
like a star. People will gravitate towards you as insects go for light. And
since it’s not about you, you will lead them to the source of light and help build
many stars.
A colleague recently said
something that kept me thinking. Her statement went something like, “there can
be no maturity unless you attain spiritual maturity." I might have
paraphrased it, but you get the point. Spiritual maturity is essential to operate
from a point where you live out the teaching of Jesus no matter what. A point
where I would like to use the following statements:
Think Like Jesus
Talk Like Jesus
Act Like Jesus
Love Like Jesus
This is the highest level
of maturity because you will find it as the order of the day; to see the invisible, believe the incredible
and do the impossible. This is not something you attain by any other
maturity other than spiritual maturity.
Love is a key element when
you think of spiritual maturity. It’s the essence of it. Every teaching of Jesus
and His life was about love. He came so that whosever believe in Him will have
eternal life. He was a star; He came to build stars and showed how to build
stars. He provided a platform, a way to do it. This is Love. He demonstrated
love in the most sacrificial way that is beyond our comprehension as human
beings. What he did many years back is still being experienced to date. He
influenced eternally.
It’s very easy to talk
about this love or the teachings of Jesus, but the game-changer is in living
the love and the teachings. It’s in moving from awareness to personal
experience, to personal action. The world does not need more love; it needs
more lovers. The world needs more spiritually, mature people. It needs more
stars; those who are leading others to righteousness, those multiplying more
stars, those build more stars.
The whole purpose of life,
I believe, is to become a star, build others stars and bring in a culture or environment
where other stars can be developed. A platform or environment where everyone
can experience the star and choose to become a star. This, I believe, is the
whole duty of man.
In my feeble efforts as a
human being, wholly motivated by the above verse and my understanding of it, I
have continued to work on myself. I believe in my journey of a continued effort
to shine like a star; many have in their own ways committed in their won
journeys to become stars. I have seen a lot of young people who want to be
something bigger than themselves. Who are passionate and are daring enough to
dream. Whether I have inspired them in any way or not, that’s a different
issue. I believe the AYLF platform has given them that opportunity to discover
their own epic meaning, feel empowered for creativity, and be able to
experience some level of growth and accomplishment. This has been what we try
to provide in AYLF. This has made some of them commit on their journey of
leading others to a more meaningful life, to be better, to righteousness as you
may call it. A commitment to love on others; to fight for the highest possible
good of those they believe they want to influence their circumstances. Be it in
government, corporate, religious, NGO, family, etc.
I believe this is the real
meaning of life.
If this resonates with
you, go ahead to evaluate your way of life. Look for a small community of
friends who you can do this together with. Being accountable to a few and practicing with a few. It’s about
building a community of friends to share each other’s journeys of becoming a
star, building other stars and creating space where others can be stars. You
have to be deeply committed to each other and desire to see each other grow in
this journey. You have to create a support, encouragement, and accountability
platform for each other. The community has to be as small as possible so that
there is active engagement by all involved.
Find a community around you
and see if these conversations make sense to you…
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