Midway into this week I was
conversing with one of my friends who has a photo studio around my locale. Our
friendly discourse hinged around how the abnormally harmful wrong has now
become the normal right in our generation; how that if you try to stand out you
automatically become an object of ridicule. This is however our sad reality
that if not handled headlong will leave little or no sanity for the next
generation.
Like I stressed out in my last piece
that we are all uniquely designed to live one effective and fruitful life, not
to be torn in-between divisible, unfruitful, and ineffective lives; that from
the beginning of time, God knows you by name; He has singled you to stand out,
to live as one individual that ever lived.
You are a masterpiece, a rare work of art, God’s magnum opus. This
simply implies that you have a customized identity worth protecting regardless
of whom or what comes your way.
Let’s start from the family; you
might be many in your family, but God sees you as an individual, you might have
quite a number of friends, but God view you as a person; surely, you live with
and come in contact with people daily, but God knows you by name. We are first
persons in God’s eye before we are seen as people. Knowing this will help us to
maintain our true identity before God and people alike.
It is sad that bandwagon attitude is
fast eroding our God given identities. We are caught up in a generation that
celebrates the majority at the expense of truth and what is right; but I often
asked, since when has the majority become the yardstick of measuring right from
wrong and lies from the truth? Since when has life becomes a democracy to allow
what goes for the majority rule us and becloud our God given sense of judgment?
The majority is not always right; inferring from the unfolding of events in our
time, the majority is often wrong.
I feel this piece won’t be complete
if I don’t tell you how our conversation with my friend ended. At the
concluding part of our conversation, my friend told me that he has resolved not
to engage in some things that may appear right now but not necessary throughout
this year. His statement teleported me back in time, where I made a simple
prayer/resolution nine years back (even though I wasn’t fully aware of its
implication as of then); I can tell you now with utmost sense of responsibility
that whenever I feel like I am drowning in the crowd, that simple
prayer/resolution from 2010 will echo in my heart with such gravity that often
put me back on track.
Well! Less I bore you with my
personal stories; the core of it all is this, in God, with God, and through
God, define you identity, trust Him to maintain it, serve the world the menu that only your identity can prepare. Mark out
a straight path for your feet, resolve not to lose your identity, let it be
known and said after you are no more that there was a man/woman who ever lived
and this was his/her identity. Let it be written about you that regardless of
many people who compromised their identities in the name of fitting in, that
you decided to fit out.
Dare to stand out on your conviction
and what you know is true, even if it means to stand out alone. By the way,
standing for the truth and what is right is a revolutionary act in a world
polluted by falsehood and moral decay. Men and women of old whose name will not
be forgotten in a rush throughout history were men and women who stood on their convictions of what is right
and true; in fact most of them stood alone, because they were different and
remained different.
You have an identity, and you have
the crowd, but most importantly, you have to stand out and you have an identity
to protect. Don’t forget that identity often comes with purpose, so if you lose
it you are losing two things at the same time. It is your identity that will
help you to know the kind of people that are meant to stay in your life. ”Your identity
should be so secure, that when someone walks away from you, they don’t take you
with them”. (Qoutesaday.com)
Don't be afraid to run against the
wind or sail against the tide in order to leave a mark on the sand of time. Annals
of history makers will justify your heroic decision to keep and maintain your
God given identity by standing on what is true and right. Just know that many
will one day come to read your story of how you either distinguished yourself
or how you allowed the crowd to wash you down the drain.
Be free to leave your comments
Thank You
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