04/01/2023
Apt . Thanks Padre.
Discipline
The moon does not know that we are counting its appearances and grouping it into what we call months. The sun does not know that we are keeping records of its rising and setting and putting it into days and weeks and years.
The days of the week, months, and years were all man-made. The 12 months that makeup one year as we have it, would have been 14 or even 10. The 7 days that make up a week, would have been 12 or even 5. While some of us are still celebrating our crossing over into a new year, the Chinese are yet to have their new year. Everything is largely our mindsets.
Sit down and think deeply,
On the first of this new year, the sun did not change its colour and brightness, it still maintained how we knew it last year; it was not even aware that we were throwing 'knockouts' or 'fireworks' to celebrate the time and date we agreed as our new year.
During the time of rain, it is not merely our prayers and fasting that made it to rain, for if our prayers and fasting can make rain fall whenever we wish, we would have been doing it at the peak of the dry season when we desperately needed rain.
So In truth, the basics that came our way last year: the sun, the rain, the night and day, the air, etc, are still with us this year. Nothing really has changed. The only thing that can change is our mindsets and how we can make good use of those basics. That is what makes a new year different from an old one.
2023 won't be great because someone in your church during the vigil made you a "prophecy" and said all sorts of nice things that made you shout "Amen" in a way that made you lose your voice.
If you want to achieve all you desire this year, give yours a gift. The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of discipline. This is because as long as you will be alive this year, there will always be one or two issues or problems that you will be confronting.
Discipline is what you will need if you want to solve those issues. Without discipline, this year won't be different from the previous, in fact, it can become worst. With only some discipline you can solve only some problems. With total discipline, you can solve all problems.
It is discipline that will give you focus and give your life a clear direction.
It is financial discipline that will make you spend on what you truly need and also do some savings.
It is moral discipline that will make you stand by one man or one woman despite the many tempting features you keep seeing in others.
It is spiritual discipline that will make you maintain your prayer life despite all the noise and distractions around.
It is discipline that will make you set targets for yourself and meet them. And indeed, when you come in contact with a man and a woman of discipline, right from the entrance of their house, you will feel it.
Remain ✝️blessed!
