Setting your eyes on the mark of destiny
There are countless things that can be worked on and practiced in order to run the race of discovering your purpose, responding to your calling, or going in the direction of your destiny. When we are unsure of our purpose in life as humans, our existence is worthless.
As people we are conditioned in a way as to move in a rhythm. This rhythm is life. However, this rhythm does not wait for anyone. Life is a never-ending cycle with no beginning or end.
Then you will inquire as to what gives life more significance. Several things add meaning to your life, but for the most part, your life is made valuable by the things that you acknowledge as necessities to you.
When I speak of enhancing the rhythm of your life - I mean not allowing yourself to be moved by the rhythm but learning how to use the rhythm to strengthen your inner qualities rather than allowing yourself to be moved by it.
Out of the many actions you need to take to not only run toward your destiny but also to help you finish the race, I have come up with five.
Step One
Your life should be an ongoing filter
What I mean by this is we are defined by the things we let control our lives. We lose control of our lives if we let everything and anything to constantly take over. And once we lose control of our life we automatically devalue our gifts, talents and skills.
But if we are able to grab hold of our destiny, we need to be able to be selective of what we allow to take root in our lives. We need to be able to filter out what diminishes the value of our own existence and what helps us move closer to our goals.
Step Two
Take inventory
Once you master the art of filtering what stakes a claim to your life, you can now take inventory. You might wonder how doing an inventory is helpful. When you make a list of all the qualities needed for you to achieve your goals, you are taking an inventory. Once you've got the list somewhere, use it. You can evaluate whether the things you eliminated from your life are in line with what you need to do to fulfil your destiny and whether there is anything you can include.
This step is crucial because it serves as a checklist of the things you would have permitted to bring home and establish roots in your life.
Step Three
Pray about it
Unlike all the other steps this step is very important!!
It is crucial to consistently put this step into practice when it comes to your destiny or calling. This action has a certain quality that makes it both radical and intriguing. This step can be done at any point during the cycle or journey. It is more intriguing because it can serve as the starting point for all subsequent processes.
We add value to our lives when we are running the race toward our calling or destiny. When you look closely at your life, you can realise that being born and then dying have many similarities. When you accept the calling that God has placed on your life, your life takes on a radiance that sets it apart from the crowd. Afterward, you evolve into a radical being. However, this stage must be completed before you take the mantle and begin your race. You must pray to God and ask him to reveal to you what it is that is so radical and unique about you. God gives you the responsibility to run your race with perseverance and diligence once He reveals to you what you're called to do. This step is so essential because it changes your life from one that has no significance to one that is complete and remarkable.
Step Four
Write it down
This advice has probably been given to you a number of times, but write down your goals (seriously write them down!!!!) and, if you haven't done so already, pay particular attention to this point.
Why do so many profound and successful people stress the need of writing down your goals? When you write something down, you don't just scribble anything down; instead, you become deliberate about what you want, need and desire. You can't merely write, "I want to be confident," for instance. You will consider strategies that will help boost your self-assurance which ultimately leads to you becoming confident. Once you put that in writing it serves as evidence of the actual goal and how you will achieve it.
The second reason you should put it in writing is that you will be forced to read it, and once you do, it will get ingrained in your mind. From-there, your mind will be compelled to act upon it until it is fully realised.
Even the Bible says in the NIV translation in Habakkuk 2:2. ( Write down your revelation and make it plain on a tablet so that whosoever reads it may run with it).
Step Five
Being Still
When it comes to being still, that's one skill I have to work on regularly.
However, there is something about quieting the mind that completely alters the situation. We calm down and allow our minds to remain still while we meditate on the word of God or to listen to His still small voice. I was really interested in the reason for the need to quiet our minds. Then God showed me this. I stated at the outset of this blog that life has a rhythm, and if it does, then we are a part of that rhythm or, more precisely, we contribute to it. However, just because we are a part of that rhythm does not imply we have to follow it. We may calm the rhythm of life and make place for a new rhythm by simply practicing stillness and quietness. This new rhythm is one that allows us to be at peace with the work that God has called us to undertake rather than succumbing to the chaos and other challenges that life throws our way. Also Exodus 14:14 NIV translation lets us know that "The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still".
There are no mistakes in this journey only lessons and room for improvement.
Go out and run your race!!
Thanks for reading.
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