The concept of finding what you’re born to do, before doing anything, is a recipe for doing nothing.
We find what we are passionate about by working first on what is in front of us.
Finding your passion is not like finding a wife. It is actually desirable to have several failures along the way.
Failures are a pointer.
If you fail at something, yet remain committed to seeing it through, and learning along the way, then that thing is for you.
If you fail at something, and give it up quickly, it was never for you.
But how can failure point the way when you’re waiting for what is to come and ignoring what is?
Instead of buying another motivational book or attending another seminar on finding your passion, open up yourself to the work at hand. It is a seed to the deep secrets of your heart.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: October 14, 2020
A wasting asset
Galatians 5:18 – 25
But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Homily:
The flesh wants immediate gratification. It is a wasting asset.
The spirit wants delayed gratification. It is an enduring asset.
The trick with mastering the flesh is framing delayed gratification as immediate gratification. Reward yourself for delaying gratification. The flesh likes rewards and promotes endeavours that reward it. Use that knowledge to master it.