Living strategically

Peace and grace from our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied unto you on this wonderful day! Once more let me say Happy New Year to you all! Today I would like to start a new topic with you that i called “living strategically”. We need to understand the reason of life and how we can live our life strategically. There few points about life that we have to understand, in order to live strategically. This is true because the way you perceive your life will influence the system of your values. Today many people perceive their life in a wrong way, therefore they are living their life the wrong way, seeking wrong things, besides they are deceived for the very same reason. The purpose of my message to you is to help you to get rid of your wrong perception of life. In case you have a right perception of life, then I thank God for you! Nevertheless, allow the Holy Spirit to continue His work in your heart and reveal this truth to you in depth. Sometimes we have a superficial understanding of our life, but thinking we know everything. Allow the Holy Spirit speak to you and set you free from any misconception about life. What do we need to know about life? What is life from God’s point of view? 

1. Life is time.
2. Life is a goal.
3. Life is a test.
4. Life is a trust.
5. Life is short.

 I want you to be clear on make these points so that you will live your life the right way and with right motivations, avoiding all being driven by every kind of misconception about life. It is true that unless we deep understanding and not just superficial or abstract knowledge of these points; unless we grow in our understanding of these points and allow them to guide our lives, we will misuse the precious life given to us by God. Let’s talk deeper about the essence of life. 

1. Life is time.

Once we are clear on this, we realise that our staying on this planet is measured by this time. If our attitude towards time is right it helps us to relate to our life itself in the right way. Relating to time the wrong way leads to the wrong attitude towards life, because life is the time. Misusing your time or wasting it is equal to wasting your life. Time is given to you by God for working (accomplishing a definite purpose), but if you do not value the time God has given you, then life itself of no value to you. As we know time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, weeks and years. Time is the main resource God has given to you, because time is the life itself. Time is something you cannot preserve. There are resources in our life that we can preserve or spare. If you have some savings, you can spare it for tomorrow, but you can’t spare your time nor regain it back once spent. Having spent your time the wrong way it’s gone for good, you will never get it back again. Such awareness helps you to live and manage your time the way that you achieve the most important goals in your life. Many people dedicate their time to unimportant stuff; therefore, they lack time for something that is really important. If you keep saying you have no time for important things you are only testifying to the fact that you a failure at managing your time well. If you have no time for prayer, what do you have time for then? While saying fellowship with God is priority goal for you, if you have no time for that, aren’t you too busy then? When you understand that life is time, you schedule and plan your time in such a way that you can accomplish the main and important things of life. God is righteous towards all of us. Each of us has received equal amount of time a day – whether you are poor or rich, educated or analphabetic. Your status in the society doesn’t count in this matter, since God treats all of us the same way by assigning 24 hours a day to everyone. Every day 24 hours are transferred into your account. A wise man realises life is time, and then he doesn’t waste it. Many times God is warning us to redeem time, because the days are evil (See Eph.5: 15-18). Managing time the right way is the only method you can achieve something great, something of eternal value. Take your relationship to time seriously if you desire to achieve something important in life. Give a task or an assignment to every minute and every hour of your life! This require of you to plan and assign a task to every hour of your life. If this is what you have already been doing until now, thanks God for you. Please just keep on doing that! However, if you feel you have a problem, in this area; if you notice that you can’t manage the important things in your life, then I am throwing a clear challenge to you today. I am challenging you to pay keen attention to the way you manage your time and work on improving in this area. Tomorrow we are going to discuss in more details how we can manage our time more efficiently. I wrote a book called “Too busy to live the right!” If you want to know how to dedicate your life to achieving eternal goals, I recommend that you get hold of this book and read it.  Remember, life is time! God bless you abundantly!See you tomorrow!Rufus Ajiboye, pastor