7 REASONS WHY YOU MUST DIE FULFILLED

It is one thing to die and another to die fulfilled. One certain thing about death is that we shall all taste it – sooner or later, but not everyone who dies, dies fulfilled. A lot of people live everyday of their lives asking the question, “How can I bring out the best in myself?” For a long time I kept asking myself the same question and I never had any cogent answer to justify the cause of the bothersome state of my mind. That was a few years ago before I finally hit the jackpot. I found the reason why I thirsted for relevance and I realized the Creator has actually deposited tonnes of resources and materials in me so I was seeking a way to expel them out of me.
A great man once thought well when he said, “The larger percentages of the greatest of minds are in the cemetery”. This fact I will never oppose because I have come to realize the truth in his statement. A lot of men who die today are men who would have been movers and shakers of their generations if and only if they utilized their God-given potentials. A lot of them live life as average men – most of them even below average – who did everything the same way any common man would have. These men as I once heard Myles Munroe call them, died full.
For someone to die full means he/she died with a great amount of his/her potentials. It is of great importance in the society we have found ourselves today, to understand the tactics and tools we need to get equipped with in other to die empty – I believe we understand what that means. These tactics and knowledge is what I have summarized into seven and I call them The Seven Reasons Why You Must Die Fulfilled:

Reason 1: You MUST Not Disappoint God

When God created the earth, he created man and commanded him, “be fruitful and multiply”. He didn’t mean reproduction alone; as a matter of fact Adam was still naked when God said this. God’s order to be fruitful means making meaning out of life and re-creation. It could be ideas, wealth, intelligence or anything else you can multiply. God was talking about making impact in this world just like He made the first impact by creating the entire universe. He wants you and me to continue the business of creation. If you fail to obey Him, you have failed God and disappointed Him to say the least.

Reason 2: It Doesn’t Matter if you don’t but Does If You Do

Have you ever noticed how people who made little or no impact while alive are often neglected and un-remembered? As a matter of fact, those who made impacts are still struggling with people remembering them for their achievements let alone those who have made little or nothing; like fart in the air will they disappear without trace. So it doesn’t matter if you decide to sit back and relax but it does matter when you decide to stand up to challenges and make something positive out of your life.

Reason 3: You’ll give an Account of How You Spent Your Life

We shall all stand before the throne of God someday and give an account of how we spent our lives on earth. Shall you just stand there and bite your mouth racking your brain for the scanty effects you made or talk till you’re begged to take a seat? Well, it is left to you to decide which of the two states you want to fall into. It could be very embarrassing to find very few stories to tell on such a great occasion.

Reason 4: the Earth will testify against You

You see, everything you do on earth today is recorded and something here on earth is a witness. Every minute wasted having an extra sleep, the extra hour you spent playing your life away and every extra day you spent without achieving anything. This life you’ve got is just one and is non-renewable when lost; forget re-incarnation here, it’s all delusions of grandeur. The earth will testify against you and refer to those seconds and minutes.

Reason 5: You will stink if you don’t

I’ve come to realize that in life, those who fail to do something great with their lives never achieve anything and they stink in the society. Stinking in this context means poor and irrelevant. For every achievement, success follows and thus wealth. So if you decide to go about your ways with all your God-given potentials locked inside of you, you rotten on the inside and stink on the outside. For this alone, you want to die fulfilled.

Reason 6: You die just that once

We all die once, yes I know. But do you know that those who fail to release their potentials die twice? Yes! They do. They die while they are living and then eventually die. When someone exists as if he did not, then the person is as good as dead. This is the reason why I say those who fail to make impact die twice. You don’t want to die twice, trust me.

Reason 7: Why Shouldn’t You?

Every animal on earth has its own unique lifestyle and it lives it exactly the way God has designed it to. Birds keep flying until they can’t anymore and fishes keep swimming until they can’t move again. You and I are created for a reason. We are not just dumped here on earth but made to make our generation feel and know we were here. We must find that thing which God has deposited in us, understand it and maximize it. It is what we are meant to do like every other creature. Have you found yours? It’s time to maximize it and prepare to die empty and fulfilled.

Destiny or What?

DESTINY: Does it really exist? I'm not too sure about what to believe, not because I don't know my stand on the issue but because a lot of people believe in its existence a lot. Well, while thinking about how to resolve this, I realized the best way to treat this is to discuss the issue with practical situations.

Real life Scenario:

Imagine a man like Baba Adeboye, who grew up in a little village and had a poor family who couldn't afford to send him to school. He cried and struggled to get educated; dreams his way out of the village into a higher institution and became who he is today by God's Grace. Imagine a friend of his - who with him (Adeboye), played with sand - still struggling in that little village to get something out of life while raising a family? Did he offend God? Or would you say it was his destiny?

There are many examples out there but I won't want to talk extensively about people here. Anyway, let us assume that friend who is still in the village fought his way out (I'm not saying He can't be fulfilled in the village, I'm only talking about creating opportunities) and gets all the tools he'll need to become great, won't his story change? He will be the great leader people will one day immortalize or a great industrialist whose generation will forever be recognized.

Assume this man in question got to understand what to do at the last minute, people will say it's his destiny to be great but what if he didn't realize it, would that be his destiny? Which will we call destiny then? The end result of a man at any point in time, just like the dictionary explains it? This means destiny changes or shall I say fluctuates. Well, I won't call such destiny - I'll prefer CHOICE.

I'm not leaving God out of this because He determines everything which includes where we end up, but I want you to know that the way God operates; our choices determine a lot of things. God does not force anybody to become what He wants, except in very few cases He wants to use people. He only guides us to follow His will which gets us to our destination. As for those who don't follow His will, they miss it in life and die frustrated although some use the Natural laws of existence to force their way into greatness (Another story).

If destiny really exist, why do courageous people take charge and change theirs? So, how would we define destiny if it changes? How do you explain someone poor and suffering and then told it's his destiny? Does God intend we suffer for no cause? Men who fight their cause and achieve great things in life thereby championing the cause of the poor and helping humanity must've changed their status and would it be destiny? Or someone rich before and got attacked by the evil ones (awon aye) therefore becoming poor, would we say it's his destiny to be poor? Think again!

Here is the summary of it all: God has put it all in us but it takes an extra strength, extra courage, extra sacrifice and extra determination to utilize all the things God has given to us. The safest way to ensure we achieve this is by understanding the will of God for us and following it. Once you've given your life to Christ and totally submitted to God, then you'll begin to see that you can achieve anything in life as long as God is in support.

See you up there, where we'll take charge and build a better environment to live in. I'll guess it'll be our destiny after-all.