Another self reflection post from Jongo...
I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing these days :)
But hopefully this helps someone who may read this in the future. Because it fires me up when I think of it. However it starts being a bit...Morbid.
I'm 48 years old right now as I write this. Essentially, I'm pretty sure I'm past the half way point of my life on God's green earth. That means if I get super lucky and I'm blessed to see the rip age of 96, right now...Is half time.
And when you get this age, and maybe even a bit older (and sometimes younger) you start looking back on your time on the planet. You family, different situations, life choices and ultimately, will I leave this planet with adding some positive influence to others.
And for Christians, it's always...Game on! For us, our influence is to always lead others to Christ. And I admit, I'm not the most 'pushy' when it comes to this. I try to live by example, Jesus' example, as much as I can. I have a list of things I used to do before giving my life to God, that I wouldn't think of doing now....And I hope that shows in some way to others I engage with.
But back to....Halftime.
I actually read a book by the same name years ago, when I was hitting the big 4-0. At the time, my business was going perfect, things where on the up and up and then...Well, you should know my story by now lol Everything crashed and burned. When I was reading that book, it inspired me because the message was....
And I'm paraphrasing...
Spend the first half of your life, building wealth and making sure your family is taken care of. And then spend the second half of your life....Giving it away.
Yeah it was a powerful book, that showed the readers how once you hit a certain point in your life...You don't need anything else. And I know for me, even with businesses crashing and burning, I feel extremely wealthy now because around that time, literally just before it all went south....I gave my life to Christ.
So the reflection part of this story...
Do I have another 48 years on earth? God knows.
But I know for this half of my life, I'm changing the focus. And it's been changing slowly but I think I need to cold turkey this stuff....
Give it all to God.
Everything.
And do everything I can to lead others to the truth that is found in Him.
I may not have 'monetary' wealth these days, but I do have a wealth of passion. And when you have passion for what you do and work with God for His mission....Oh wow, the possibilities are endless!
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Do you find that the older you get, the easier it is to sit back and simply allow God to do His thing? Trusting in the fact that He has a plan for your life? I'm still working on that but I find it gets a little easier the older I get!
Oh wow, so true!
I used to try to fix everything when I was younger, like I had the solutions to everything...Nowadays, let God work it out lol
This is inspiring, a reminder and also a mindfulness note to all of us.
Because most of us are just busy running from piller to post forcing to make money so as to live comfortable here on the earth.
But we have most of the times forget to think about our personal lives and to rearrange our life in readiness to meet the King of Glory, when he calls.
Just this week in my country, Nigeria, a prominent tele evangelist died at 80 years of age. He was seen not too long ago still ministering to people to repent, nobody knew he was dying this year,
Now it has happened. Nobody knows when it will come, it's very shocking to me because I have always believed he could get to a hundred years and above.
It has kept giving me deeper thoughts about the life we are living in on the earth.
I have kept asking myself in my private, since his passing,
"why has the Lord not told him that he would die this year?, it's shocking to me".
We really need to pause and ponder about our personal lives on this planet earth.
Thank you for sharing!!.
It's about impact for me...Like what can I do, to move God's kingdom forward....And yeah, He doesn't 'need' me per se, but if I'm going to spend eternity there, I might as well talk about it a lot while I'm living lol
Yeah the spirit of God living within us helps us to create impacts while here on the earth. Just keep spreading the word of God to whom ever and to wherever you are found.
It is interesting how our views can shift when we think about our past. Your dedication to practicing your beliefs and inspiring others is motivating for yourself ;)
Our history determines our future, we have to learn from it
I'm only 24 but already thinking about what actually matters long term. Having passion instead of money truly is the first mindset we need to adopt because that's real wealth right there.
Still young, heck I didn't even know what I was going to do with my life until I was 28-29 lol
And yet you turned out to be a sweet soul, I'm grateful, there's hope 🙏