Recently, I was on board a VIP bus journeying from Kumasi to Accra. After quite a hectic journey to Kumasi and a packed schedule, I was looking forward to a relaxing ride back home. When the bus started off, there was an annoying beeping sound (like that of a an articulated truck reversing) in the bus. I ignored it as probably being the traffic indicator since we were now leaving the bus terminal.
However, the deafening noise became incessant. In my mind, I thought, "Won't that sound stop?" And then I thought again, "Won't anyone alert the driver to stop that sound?"
So we started off from Kumasi around 1:00 pm and arrived in Accra around 6:00 pm. That means approximately five hours! Would you believe that that beeping sound rang in that bus throughout the journey!? It seemed to have no snooze button. To date, I don't know what the sound was for, but one thing that resonated in my mind which I want to share with you is this: I could have protested or sought for the driver's assistance is 'snoozing' that 'beeper'...but I didn't! Why? Because I was expecting someone else to. Because I felt it was another person's duty to do so. I was a coward- unwilling and unable to check something which was definitely debilitating to my comfort during my journey!
One amusing thing is that I am certain that there were also other passengers thinking the same way I was thinking.
Don't we all do that from time to time? We see a problem in our community or in an organization and we expect someone else to take up responsibility for it. Even in our walk of faith, sometimes certain situations persist for such a long time and we are expecting God or someone to do something about it. But the Lord wants us to rather rise up boldly and confront the situation.
Wasn't that what happened with Moses at the Red Sea? He cried out to God for deliverance, but the answer was in his hands and in his mouth. That rod is his hands was what he needed to stretch over the water to divide it.
Today, you have that supernatural ability in you to turn things around in your favour. That ability is in your tongue. Your tongue is capable of setting your life on course for the glory of God, IF you will use it right. Talk what you want to see based on the Word. Speak the Word of God. Declare who you are in Christ! Declare what you have in Him! Confess what you can do in Him. God is not going to send another Holy Spirit from heaven to save you or to deliver you! The Holy Spirit in you is all that you need to live in triumph. So today, decide to load your spirit with the Word and proclaim it. Stop waiting on someone from somewhere to do something on your behalf. Refuse to have a beggarly mindset. Take responsibility for what takes place in your life!
Of course, I can't leave you without admonishing you to guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life and to think on things that are true, noble, honest, pure and of good report (Proverbs 4:23; Philippians 4:8).
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