P. Boye Motivations

I’ve come to find that a time comes in a man’s/woman’s life when everything goes bad.
In those times, it looks really terrible.
Maybe even lonely.
Everything just goes, sour. It’s very humiliating in those times.

Things just don’t work out. These seasons come and go. It may happen once in a person’s life. It may happen multiple times, however, there will be a season.

This season one way or the other uncovers the heart of man and the extent to which one can go to get over that uncomfortable season.

My focus today is based on a question,” who do I/you result to become when I/you pass through the fire?”

Do hard times bring out the worst in you or do they bring out the best in you.

1 Peter 1:7, says “These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world”

A wise man once said, “pressure creates Diamonds. Fire refines gold”

Do you know the difference between yourself and gold/diamonds though?

1. You have a choice: based on research, most at times when we as humans go through painful situations, it brings out the worst in us, instead of the best. Why? Choice. We have a choice.
   I do not disregard how painful some situations maybe, but for every bad outcome, there is a great outcome as well. It depends on the path you choose to take. Diamonds are non- living things, they go through the fire be it they want to or not, and they always come out well. It’s expected that they come out well.

Now, imagine, if I/you would just make that decision today, that no matter the pressure, no matter the fire, no matter the pain, ” I will stand firm, my faith won’t shake, I won’t fall”. Stop looking for easy ways to overcome unpleasant situations. I know it’s unpleasant, but try! During labor, you have to pass through the fire of pain to birth that beautiful baby, there are no short cuts. So why do you want to take a short cut on your own life?
It’s a conscious decision one ought to make.
Your circumstances shouldn’t define you, you define them. Define it, yes.

2. You are worth more Rubies and gold: apart from the verse we read earlier on about our faith being worth more than gold , Proverbs 31:10 also says you are worth more rubies and gold. I am talking to both males and females now, though the scripture was referring to females.

Now, why would you dare belittle your worth by allowing gold to come out finer than you when you are worth more than it’s? I ask again, why?

Hold on, I know your situation is different, I know you have gone through this and that. I know it’s not easy, but that’s the point, to get you to come out as gold.

The same way we humans place a demand on gold/diamond to come out well and pure. We even look away when we want to buy gold and it’s not real, this is the same way life places a demand on us!
As much as you have a choice to stay in the fire or find a short cut to come out of a fire. The end result of your pain should be good.

And, when you’re done, your life/outcome is meant to be a testimony, a beautiful one that others could benefit from.
Just as gold is, I mean real gold.

The problem with taking short cuts in your painful journey is you come out As steel, not gold!

You can easily rust! But gold, gold, Pure gold will neither rust nor tarnish. It is nearly inert.

Dear reader, don’t give any excuse, trust God to never allow you go through something too much for you to bear, but whiles you go through whatever it’s you do. Go through it! Don’t fight it, just allow God prune you so you can come out well, not just temporarily, but better than gold as you are, permanently.

Make that decision today!
Say to Yourself, ” I will come out refined, purified! “

Boye, Sharon Paulina
20th March, 2020.