Sometime when I was much younger,
when I never knew how to handle challenges, then I see it wrongly as a battle I
can't even start fighting and was too scared to approach my problems because I lacked
the vision, unknowing that my adversity is something I should face with
boldness, audacity and courage. This self-assurance came when Martin Luther
King Jr. said that,
“The greatest place a man can find Himself is
a place of challenge and controversy not a place of comfort.”
Our challenges ignite our target
and push us to fight harder, so the bigger our problems are, the harder they
fall. Much in the same way, the bigger the challenges ahead of us in our present
moment, the bigger and more satisfying is the sense of victory having quashed
those challenges.
It may sound bizarre to say this,
but there is no irony known in the truth of life that sometimes the only way to
conquer something is to meet it “hard” and “head-on”. Apply the best strategy
within your arsenal; be optimistic, keep the balls rolling because if you definitely
stop, the ball will in other way roll back at you. You cannot bring about change without confrontation.
This is why we should take heart in
the hardest of adversities, though it’s God that strengthens our weakness when
we merely take heart by showing faith enough to simply persist.
We don’t need to enjoy persistence,
but just continue in doing it (persist). There is no easier way in persisting
than simply stepping forth, one step at a time.
Most times, issues are over complicated because
of our emotions, panic, lack of patience and so on. At this point, I can recall
what the book of John chapter 16 vs. 33 said, “in our distress we are to take courage for Jesus has already overcome the world.”
This is not rhetoric, it is the fact of the gospel-related
life where we employ strategies of faith to keep persisting on-ward, despite
the issues against us, we become ultimately blessed at the appropriate time, I quote
Jeffrey R Holland, who said, “ if for a
while the harder you try the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with
the best people who ever lived.”
When we are deeply challenged
with one thing or the other, it is not actually wise to jump out to the company
that won’t fetch or add value to us, because the overall point of enduring
adversity is persisting in our way, in holding on with hope in our method of
faith, by keeping good company, seating back to adapt, accepting the moment and
deal with the stumbling block. Yes! You can.
“No man is rich enough to buy back His past.” Oscar Wilder
A lot of great leaders today were
sometime helpless in life, but they never gave up, their hope kept them alive
which made fight for success themselves. Remember, there is no successful man without a painful story. “Man
is great not because he never falls but rises after so many falls.” Obafemi Awolowo
If we are inspired by heroes and none
are greater than Jesus- we would have to agree that we have within us the ability
to endure great adversity. We have unfathomable resources of patience tenacity which
will simply step one foot after the other. The greater the adversity, the
greater we should take heart and keep the fighting sword firm.
Those very people that have
inspired us showed us the way. We are not made weaker by adversity; we are strengthened
and made wiser because of it.
