2021

We have been focusing on essential factors for making a mark and living a life of significance. We have already identified passion and platform. What comes on the heels of those two is partnership. Partnership is indeed necessary for making significant marks in life.

After becoming certain of your passion or purpose, seek out a platform for expression. Sometimes, you may have to use an existing platform; and at some other times, you may have to create a new one altogether. If you are fortunate enough to find an existing platform for expression, take good heed of it because it is not easy to create one.

Making a mark begins with having a consuming passion. Another word for this is a consuming purpose. Until one has identified what to do, there is no chance of living a life of significance. Identifying a passionate cause will save you from distractions. It will help you conserve energy and channel resources to what matters.

Our text gives a classic definition of preaching. It is the manifestation of God’s word. Preaching is not the manifestation of a man’s oratory or humour. It is not the clever ability of man to hold people spellbound. It is giving out the very word of God by the power of the Holy Spirit.

It wasn’t the power of Jesus that made the devils tremble; it was His holiness that they found unsettling. A choice to walk in personal holiness will command such victory over the forces of Satan and his devils.

The world cannot be won by our rhetoric. Our miracles may be nothing more than side attractions. What will captivate the world is love and oneness, the type that is alien to their community. Let us therefore strive for the bond of unity among believers, for this is the seal of perfection.

Finally, we see perspective coming to light again when she wrote: “I could not have written thousands of hymns if I had been hindered by the distractions of seeing all the interesting and beautiful objects that would have been presented to my notice.’’

“God’s work is not gender sensitive.”
-Simeon Afolabi, B&W, HIGHER HEIGHTS, FEB 7, 2023

Life in Christ is expected to be devoted to good deeds. Indeed, our deeds become all the more altruistic when it is to people we don’t know or those who are not in position to pay us back.

That experience and others brought him to salvation in Christ through faith. He went on to become one of the major reformers in the Christendom. Stories like this are inspirational, a reminder of what God can do through us if we let go of our fears.