Beware, how we used the power and authority that is given to us.

Beware, how we used the power and authority that is given to us.

Opportunity lost shall never be regained.

“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do so’’. Proverbs: 3 v 27.

Power and Authority has being awarded to many great men both by God and also by man, due to the gifts, talents and abilities that God has blessed man with.

Man is on a hunt, looking for Power.

Man is on a search, seeking for Power.

Power can be properly and preciously used and can also be sadly abused.

Power is sweet but when it is used positively it brings and breeds; peace, progress, pleasure, pride, profit and prosperity.

Power is sweet but when it is used negatively it brings and breeds; pain, pressure, protest, poverty, punishment and peril.

Have you ever being deprived, withheld and robbed of an opportunity in life? And how has it affected your present and future life decisions?

Who are the ones with authority and power, withholding and depriving others of “Good’’ opportunities?

·       Leaders of Governments...when one is not a party supporter, doom is their result.

·       Teachers...a child is brilliant but poor, therefore opportunity is withheld from him/her.

·       A Coach of sports;...can withhold and deprived a popular-star from a golden opportunity, because of personal-opinions, hatred and grudges.

·       A Doctor...refused to help a sick because of their genealogy.

·       A television owner...refused to hire a lady, because of gender.

·       A Pastor...destroyed the gift of a member, because they were not one of his heart’s favourite.

·       An Employer...refused to promote Ann because of her religion.

God who is loved, wants us to stop talking about love, put our mouth’s on pause and put our words in actions, by genuine loving one another and helping each other at all times, when opportunity arises. God wants us to use the authority that is on loan to us to be; loving, kind and helpful. Displaying God’s true wisdom, lifting the spirits of each other, turning on the lights and dispelling the darkness...for a hopeful and brighter future.

We often hear this phrase, “opportunity lost shall never be regained, the bell cannot be unrung, thinking of the Ark the door was shut/close…These illustrations tells or summaries the important of “Time”. We think of the “Clock”, it tells or keeps records of the “Time”, in which we lives.  In the Book of Ecclesiastes: 1 vs. 1- 8, speaks of “Time”, breaking it down, it said, “A Season for Everything”, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

            Even before the Book of  Ecclesiastes, recording of ‘Time’, and even before in the Book of Genesis, which records the time of God’s creation, we can still go further back still and look at an earlier dispensation of Time, when the Apostle Paul speaks of it in his letter to Titus a young preacher, scholar, teacher, where he said, in Titus: 1 v 2, “In Hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began;” This speaks of “Time”,  far beyond creation.

          So because of this, I am here reminding you and myself that time is very imperative and precious, which is on loan to us, given by God the Almighty, the King of Kings, Lord of Lords the ONLY CREATOR of all creations of both heaven and, earth. So let us stop making a fool of ourselves, redeeming the time in which we lives  and stop wasting precious “Time”, this season of our lives in which we now presently living. Remember, “Time”, is not waiting on us, it is irreversible, cannot be put on pause, when it is past and gone it is gone forever and can only be remembered as it is recorded as a memorial of history.

          Therefore, this is a precious-moment for all of us to reflect, stop, look, listen and see for ourselves the ticking of the clock of our past, present and future time. Speaking and reflecting on our past-time or season of our lives. Our memories are filled with multiple-experiences of time; bitter and sweet, happy and sad, life-time-missed-opportunities, which cannot be regained, bringing the combinations of tears, all of which only God understands.

          Therefore to all of us as human being; it matters not of our genealogies, let us get a grip of ourselves and blow a horn of warning to one and all especially our children’s and grandchildren’s, who is the future generations, reminding them of the imperatives of making good use of the opportunity of the present and future time and season of their lives. Living, helping and doing all that is positive, gladly helping our fellowmen in every areas of life-journey.