WHAT IS THIS? PRINCE WILLIAMS GOT ME THINKING, KATE GOT ME HOPING?

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Prince WIlliams and Princess Catherine

What exactly is hope? What is it? Can it be quantified? Can it be valued? It seems hope is a state of mind rather than an event. Nobody can deny however that hope is powerful. Even if you are not yet there, the hope that it will happen can release an unparalleled adrenaline. The hope that it CAN happen can pump and keep one going even if it never happens or if you are in pain. Hope is what keeps a pregnant woman going for nine months through different forms of inconvenience and pain. Where am I going? Series of events lately has got me thinking deeply – very deeply. Is this where I am supposed to be? What kind of options am I choosing? What choices am I making? Where will I end with these options? Can simple inconsequential things that I do or have been doing can or determine the outcome of my life.  Big things carry power. A lot of times, small things seem to have more power. The choices we make matters, years down the line – they do. They will determine where we end. They will conclude where I end.

I initially refused to join the bug of the wedding of Prince Williams and “Commoner” Catherine as it was everywhere – emails, facebook, twitter and of course the cable news channel will not let us rest. 

Despite that, I kept my cool and took it along my stride. I felt the pressure the publicity might put on this young couple could implode the relationship! However, they seem to be holding their own. So it seems – at least till now. However, I am bugged sick of the fact that they kept referring to her as a commoner! May be they are correct. She was a commoner - a “nobody”.  She was not destined or fated to be a royalty but she however found herself becoming one. I also asked questions as to whether it was a chance – pure chance or a combination of other factors. 

I looked at the scriptures again and looked at some of the contemporary biographies that I have read and feel that becoming a queen involves some chance truly. However, full success in life takes more than a chance. There are some definite things we have to commit to do, know, walk in, learn – I can go on and on – to succeed.  I agree that success is relative in the way we defined what exactly it is. It may not be defined in absolute terms but anyone can recognize success when they see one. I know of a couple who spent all their lives working as teachers. Yet all their six children had the best education and migrated out of Africa going to the best of schools all over the world. Even though they had a small chance but they made consistent choices over the years that serendipity or luck could smile on!

Pro 22:29  Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

I remember when I started working in the big city of Lagos in Africa from my home town, I envied this couple and their kids. On learning their beginnings, I was humbled. I learnt that they had a rough beginning but they succeeded - in that they retired comfortably, out of debt with well brought up and trained children. Kate got me thinking. I was amazed at how the local grocery store owners were so excited to be invited to the Westminster Abbey and Buckingham palace for their wedding.  All of us will not be born as princes and princess. Even if we were, it’s not all princes that are acknowledged and respected. There are paper princes. There are mouth princes. However, we can turn it around.

I was more amazed when the house she lived in as a young girl was recently sold higher that its normal value. She did not even know then that she will marry a prince! May the plan of God for our destinies not be terminated. With God’s help we can make some consistent decisions that “luck” can smile on. Someone defined Luck as preparation meeting opportunity.

This is what Williams got me thinking about and what Catherine  got  me hoping on.

1. SETBACKS DON’T HAVE TO DEFINE US

Ruth married a foreigner. That risk she took did not work out right. She lost her husband, her father in law. Her sister in-law was in the same widowhood ship. The only person they both had left was their mother in law. It was an all women pity party. They were stuck.  However, a close analysis of their language says a lot about their perspective to setbacks. Orpah left but Ruth stayed  and declared:

Rth 1:16 -17 …..Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:  Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

She chose to stay with someone who knows a God that helps men even in the midst of setbacks. I just finished talking to a widower who lost his wife at a prime age and I encouraged him not to allow the setback to define him.

Psa 130:5  I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

2. TAKING A DECISION IS  BETTER THAN NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL

Decide, decide and decide. It’s better to decide and fail than not taking a decision at all. The next turn may not be the best but it will not make you a fool as far as your decision was based on the best of data you had as at when the decision was made! Stop procrastinating – take a decision. After so many years of postponing active decision making, the prodigal son finally took responsibility and took a decision.

Luk 15:18-19  I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,  And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

3. WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING

Rth 1:19  So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

Ruth could have waited at home and sulk after they migrated back to bethlehem. The very next morning, she took the initiative.

Rth 2:2  And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

Start from somewhere. Start small and move on – heaven will honor those steps.

4. HAPPENSTANCE HAPPEN TO HARDWORKING PEOPLE

She found herself working hard picking left overs in a field that belonged to Boaz- her future husband.

Rth 2:3  So Ruth went out to the fields and walked behind the workers, picking up the heads of grain which they left. It so happened that she was in a field that belonged to Boaz.

Luck smiles on people who are in the zone! Get a life. Get a job. Get a purpose – The Husband will come. The Wife will come. Babies will come. Don’t stop your life because you don’t have something yet –keep moving. Move forward with diligence.

5. MENTORSHIP CANNOT BE IGNORED

It will be madness to have spent some years on earth without mentors! It will be suicidal to continue living without one. Ruth would never have excelled without a Naomi! The evidence was too much in the scriptures. She took the initiatives but she gets her mentor’s perspective because she is older and she is been there!

Pro 15:22  Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

You need a mentor. You surely need one. I was talking two days ago to a young woman who was trying to hold on to a relationship. She was trying very hard but her efforts failed. She was doing some right things the wrong way. She was sincere but she was wrong in her approach. I summarized her whole missteps to the absence of a proven and worthy mentor!

Mentorship advises on where to stay to remain safe.

Rth 2:22 Naomi said to Ruth, "Yes, daughter, it will be better for you to work with the women in Boaz' field. You might be molested if you went to someone else's field."

Mentorship requires consistent covering and closeness to the mentor.

Rth 2:23 So Ruth worked with them and gathered grain until all the barley and wheat had been harvested. And she continued to live with her mother-in-law.

Please do not forget to drop your comments and your perspectives.

As Catherine and Williams start their home, I pray that Heaven will provide them with godly mentors to guide them to a full and effective live. I ask that we will not walk alone. We will walk in the path of grace and integrity, making the right choices diligently until Heaven completes that which he has started – In Jesus Name.

God bless you.

EVANGELIST BEE.

No. 124 – 1st June 2011

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