Several years ago, on a bright Saturday afternoon, a group of excited, energetic and intelligent undergraduates were returning from a birthday party. They chatted, laughed and danced to the music coming from the car stereo system. All of a sudden, the car in which they were riding stopped. They thought it was a small problem. The car was examined and re-examined to detect the fault but to no avail.
Finally, they decided to jump start the car. They pushed and pushed. At a point, they removed their jackets, ties and rolled up their sleeves. While they were doing all of these, rain started. After two hours of rigorous pushing in the heavy rainfall, they resolved to get a technician. The technician fiddled with one or two things and told them to push again, yet no result. All of a sudden, the technician started laughing. He laughed uncontrollably. When they asked him why he was laughing, he replied “the man trying to jump start the car kept the gear in neutral all the while. What a waste of time and energy. Two hours of rigorous pushing inside the rain and the gear was in neutral. That is the same problem a lot of people have with their lives.
Some have been pushing for over twenty years but the gear of their life is in neutral. No wonder a Jewish proverb says that the labour of the foolish will weary them because he does not even know how to get into the city. It does not matter how hard you accelerate in life, as long as the gear of your life is in neutral, you will make no progress.
So many have also put their lives in the wrong gear. Just as it is when you drive a car, if you try to move the car with gear five, you will make no progress. Life is all about moving from one phase to the other. If you engage your car in the reverse gear, you can’t move forward. It has been said that people can be divided into 3 groups:
1. those who make things happen
2. those who watch things happen
3. those who wonder what is happening
You have sat for too long watching and wondering what is happening. It is time for you to make something worthwhile happen.
There are also those who make the wrong things happen. In life, you will be remembered either for the problems you created or the ones you solved.
Millions of people on earth merely exist because they have put their lives in neutral. Has it ever occurred to you that when your life is in neutral, all you get is what others allow to come to you? I want to appeal to you today to attempt something so fantastic that unless God is in it, it is destined to be a failure.
Your life is too precious to be left to chance. It is time for you to start living by design and not by chance. Stop saying I know things will get better one day.
Listen, in order for things to get better, you need to engage your life in the right gear. So many have put their lives in the neutral by running away from taking risks. Anyone who risks nothing achieves nothing. Risk is the fuel that makes it possible for anyone to conquer new territories.
We will continue on this tomorrow.
Have a blessed day!
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