The Chapters of Life
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The essence of this book is to give a pen picture of every chapter of the human life as life is in stages so as to encourage and guide everyone to live by the rules and succeed. It is important to know early that life is not a bed of roses but an event full of challenges that only those blessed with God’s presence, His grace, love and strong self believe can overcome. God made man in His image and gave him responsibility over everything on earth. Man born of woman starts growing from the womb, is born as a child, brought up as a child before growing to become an adult. By virtue of training from parents, religious fathers and the society he grows to start fending for himself acquiring wealth, getting married and raising his family. The family circle repeats itself until his own young ones grow to be adult while he grow older and return to his maker.
Tending the earth as God had assigned to man from generation to generation is a whole lot of hard work that requires understanding of Devine purpose, revelations of His will, commitment, focus on goals, obedience to His command, self-sacrifice, selfless service to meet the demands and needs of others, and unquestionable faith in God for direction. It sounds very easy but it is not. Why because the world is ruled by two forces, the force of light looking to bring benefits to man through eternity with Him and that of darkness looking to steal, kill and destroy people into condemnation. And both are constantly in opposition and in conflict. Both forces have their own defined path to fulfill their objectives. The force of light mean well to do good to everyone whereas the force of darkness mean to do bad to everyone as well. Throughout the life of man are diverse dilemmas requiring Devine wisdom to take positive decisions and remain on the right path of life. The choice is always yours for the making and God permits people to make choices. Making the right choice is a function of your thoughts, affiliations, associations and desires and these influence the outcome of your decisions. You are at liberty to seek guidance from your mentors and guardians in the process only if you know the importance and these itself is a dilemma. Jesus said I have place before you life and death, if you chose life you will live. But be guided that darkness cannot comprehend light so if I were you I will choice light and by default chose life. The way of light is very narrow. It does not allow you to do what you like. It demands knowledge of the commands of God, having faith in Him and obedience; it demands patience, hard-work, discipline, tolerance, focus, love, charity, and humility in all that you do. You cannot achieve these except His grace is sufficient for you. He said that the Grace of God is available to all men. Free of charge. But it requires you to make the choice to take it and when you do, it is a commitment to forget about the things of the world and all your thoughts would reflect heaven. Remember that as a man thinketh so is he.
The way of darkness is a complete opposite to that of light. Those who follow after darkness do not end the same way that those who follow after light do. Following the way of light does not mean that there will not be challenges. That is even when you will have more challenges, tribulations, and oppositions. These you can only overcome not with fear but with focus, determination and hard-work, trusting that the Father of light is ever present to give you inspiration, direction and help to overcome. He said many are the afflictions of the righteous but The Lord delivers him from them all. This assurance is enough to build your trust and confidence and to help you to know that His presence will be with you at all times irrespective of the situation you pass through. David said ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of life, I shall fear no evil because thou Lord of Light is with me’. This was a confession of self-belief in the guiding power of God to survive difficult situations. And John concluded the matter saying ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’ It means with God, there are no limits to what anyone can do. Just do the right things. Praise Him more in songs. Give Him thanks in all things. As required pray and fast. It builds up you spirit. The devil, the father of darkness will always direct his own children to destroy and not build. Their job is to steal, kill and destroy. Checkout individuals, people and nations following after these devil agenda or who lacks the true knowledge of God. These are the fruits that they identify with. They never cease fighting, killing, and destroying neither do they progress nor get satisfied.
But the children of light builds, maintain peace, show love to everyone and there are visible progression and prosperity in all facets.
So if you chose to be a child of light from onset trusting in God, always doing good, believing in yourself, trusting in your creator for help and guidance, you are sure to success. The fruits you produce will testify to what you are whether a child of light or of darkness.
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About the Book
This book is rather enlightening us of what could potentially obtain in each chapters of life to stimulate readers thought and inspirations as it relates to their own chapters of life. It will draw you back to think or re-think about what your life’s script is all about and help you to determine your purpose driven life.
Everything operates around a cycle. Time, Life, Day and night, career, you name it. It is important that everyone come to terms with this knowledge because this will surely have a positive influence in our thoughts, attitude to things, our behavior towards one another and most especially it will help to shape our belief, streamline our character and determine our destiny. This cycle of events is natural and cannot be stopped. Stopping or removing a battery from a clock can only stop the particular clock from functioning and cannot stop the movement of time universally, neither can it slow it down. There is this popular rhyme we used to sing at pre-nursery which got stuck in my memory till date and so it goes ‘tick says the clock tick tick, what you have to do, do quick’. It simply implies that having the knowledge that the time cannot be stopped for any reason, and I have grown to see that it has never stopped not even for a second, one should know that anything worth doing is worth doing right and on time according to the chapter of his life.
About the Author
Dr Ufot is a prolific speaker with vast experience in Technical disciplines, Leadership, Management, Business consultancy and now an author. He delights in sharing insightful thoughts that inspire people to success. He is an Elder and Parish Chairman, management committee of the United Evangelical Church in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Economics from Atlantic International University, USA; an MSc. in Engineering Management (Brunel University, UK) and a HND in Mechanical Engineering from College of Technology, Calabar, Nigeria.