BRACE UP, WE ARE JUST STARTING

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During my days as a footballer, I just got registered in a new club. During my first day on the drilling days, we began jogging and after jogging for like 1km, I got tired and sat down, then I suddenly received a knock on my head and this question ‘why are you sitted? I replied, because am tired, then he replied, brace up, we are just starting’, we must go 9km more. I was like, “Oh No, I Don Suffer”.
When you get heartbreak, and you want to kill yourself, well, that’s just episode one amidst hundreds of episodes you are about to encounter. You need to brace up. Trees get perched by birds for no offense, animals get beaten by rain, bushes gets burned up, insects get killed and life goes on.
If you are innocent your heart would be broken, if you are guilty, your life would be crushed, there are no safe paths on earth.
Paul said ‘We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; {in despair: or, altogether without help, or, means} Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed’ 2 Cor. 4:8-9
If you are not ready to get up after the fall, then you are not fit to live in this life. There would be trouble on every side, there would be perplexion, there would be persecution and we shall be cast down.
Are you in any of these? If you are, then you are in this world, for this is life. Christ didn’t come to take these away, but He came to make us rise again, fix us up when broken, comfort us when perplexed and heal us when wounded.
You must face it, for it there be no cross there won’t be glory. Get up and brace up, this what you need to bear.
God bless you
Pastor Promise Ikpe
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