17/09/2021
“Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” And they were amazed at him.”
Mark 12:17 NIV
Today I will be sharing a personal experience and I hope you can learn from it. Bear with me as it’s a bit long but I want to impart this lesson to you. I have been beating myself up over this for months now and I pray non of us ever make this mistake.
When I graduated from university, I became part of the statistics of the unemployed youth and no matter how much I applied it was in vain. As qualified as I was, my resume and results just did not do me justice as I was either not good enough or just a bit over the mark of what was required. It was a tedious experience but I never gave up. I remember altering my cv for every job I applied for but just did not make the cut. I was losing hope and it did not help that my fellow graduates seemed to have started living their lives and were sharing on social media of their conquests. Depression crept in and feelings of failure and resentment were a sudden part of my life.
I remember taking my documents to a pastor to have them prayed for before sending them out but the response was still the same. Note, I was not a born again Christian but somehow knew that God could make the impossible possible. One day, a young man came into our house for bible studies with my siblings and offered to pray for me. He then further extended an invitation to church the coming Sunday, I was not keen but decided to “give it try”. It was at this very service when a man of God spoke a prophetic word into my life and his precision was spot on. I gave my life to the Lord that day and started laboring for the kingdom. I never wanted to miss a service and would make sure I was part of the team that prepared for the service.
Things started looking up and was getting called for interviews and the more I strived for the kingdom of God, the more things started shaping up in my life. I remember the Bishop telling me “it’s like peeling an onion, the more we remove layers with tears in our eyes, the more we get to the part we need.” Needless to say, I got the job. Then came the nice benefits of it, the car, the apartment and so on… stupid me. When all these things came, little did i offer my time and myself for the kingdom. I fell back into the world. I stopped going to church as I was suddenly too busy or not around. I misused Gods blessings and true to the adage, the was a sever price to pay.
I will not go into the details of my downfall but I will tell you one thing. The things of God are just that! They are not meant to be shared with the world but are a means for you to testify into the world of the goodness of God.
God bless you.