The Key to Understanding Life and Yourself
The world has a way of shaping us to suit it, and we, on the other hand, have a way of making peace with our situations thinking that there is nothing we can do to change them. We, however, need to know that we have the power to change everything around us if we don’t like the way things are. There is a way that life programs us especially as we grow up and it plays an important role in our lives in that many of us end up following its ways of doing things and living. What we don’t realize is that its way of doing things and definition of life is limited and corrupted. And so, when we position and align ourselves to the world’s way of doing things, we end up limiting ourselves and never live to realize the greatness within us.
Many of us have been made to believe that the route towards success is well defined, and for us to reach our goals, we must strictly follow it. This route is full of boundaries, limitations, deadlines and set marks and we can only consider ourselves successful if we beat them. In our effort to meet and beat them, we are met with frustrations and disappointments and many are frustrated today because these deadlines have not been met and ‘age is no longer on our side.’ Reason being we don’t want to be judged and labelled failures or we don’t want to be left out. This leaves us with no option but to do anything and everything just to fit in.
Society and worldly pressures are not new in our generation, and many of us are bowing down or have bowed to them, yet they only lead us to a life of limitations. They deprive us of the kind of life God created and intended for us to live. This kind of life that many of us have embraced has become our greatest snare and trap. It has done nothing else but to blind and drag us to the wrong direction of unhappy, unfulfilled and limited life. This is the main reason why for many people, including believers, life remains a mystery. Why? Because just like computers, we operate and function via “societal and worldly programs”. We constantly look up to the world and others for instructions in order to confirm whether we are still on track and the next step to take. This is the kind of life many of us know and have embraced, but it’s not the kind of life God intended for us. A mere fact that we look up to the world and others for ‘confirmation’ and or ‘approval’ indicate there is an underlying problem. And it’s this problem that I want to address.
God didn’t create man to be independent but to be dependent on Him. If at all we have come to a place where we need answers and we look for those answers in the wrong places, it means one thing: we don’t know who we are or where we come from; we don’t know to whom we belong and our source thereof. And this mystery is the greatest disaster in the life of any person. The key to understanding life is in the source of life, not in the life itself.
In Dr. Myles Monroe’s words; “Never use the creation to find out who you are, because the purpose of something is only in the mind of the one who made it. You will never know yourself by relating to the creation, only to the creator. You will never discover who you are meant to be if you use another person to find yourself. You will never know what you can do by using what someone else has done to measure your ability. You will never know why you exist if you use someone else’s existence to measure it. All you will see is what they’ve done or who they are. If you want to know who you are, look at God. The key to understanding life is the source of life, not in the life itself. You are who you are because God took you out of Himself. If you want to know who you are, you must look at the creator not the creation.”
Our failure to look up to God for the answers we seek has led to our failure in discovering who we are. God is our creator and only He can help us to understand who we really are. Only He can give us the right definition of ourselves because we have our beginning in Him and definitely, we will find our individual purposes in Him.
