When you don't aspire to know more than what you have been given in life

Going further in life, is vital in helping our careers, our decisions and most importantly our purposes.
When you don't aspire to know more than what you have been given in life, then you cannot leave that particular place where you are, your pace will remain the same and static.

If you are given the gift of writing, drawing, singing or any gift at all that can benefit you and the society, go further. Than where you've started.

This evening, I was inspired by something. This does not only concerns anyone out there, but also its writer.

There are various things that cause this.
__ignorance
––laziness
––the way you approach challenges.

#ignorance

A person may think that he's good enough and ignorantly decide not to desire the better.

According to the parable of Jesus Christ, what can you say about the servant who went ahead to bury his talent?
Ignorance? Or laziness?

I choose ignorance as the better option here.
You can see that he's even bold enough to tell his master that he kept his.
The word ignorance is as bad as sin itself. It is an "eye-blocker".

I am not creating the impression that we can be better then everyone in life (that's impossible). But we should bring the best out of what we have been given.

To discover your purpose is a different thing, to use it is another thing and to work on it is another thing entirely.

A barrel filled with water under the sun, must be filled with water regularly lest it dries up.
That's our gifts for us .

Our efforts towards what we have been given by God is likened to a parable :

There two men with a garden each and of the same size.

The first man watered and weeded his garden thoroughly and said :"oh my heart, rest now, I have done the work. Let me sit and watch my vegetables and fruits grow "

But the second man came every morning and evening to water and weed his garden.
The first man would laugh at the second man saying: look at this one, I wonder what he will do during rainy season hahaha "

Then as time went by, the second man's garden began to grow bigger and larger. It grew so well that it benefits the man and the society. He made a lot of sales and did not stop managing the garden anyway.

But when it got to the assumed harvest time. The first man went to his garden. To his surprise, he met bush. The vegetables and fruits have dried up and he went away with a bowed head and in despair.

What have we learnt?

It is our responsibilities to help ourselves develop in life. Afterall, God has deposited qualities into us, we have to go further to help them grow.
Thinking that we have done enough is not the trivial thing, as learning is a continuous process, so is the development of ourselves, our gifts, our purposes.

1. God does not like laziness. A lazy man cannot receive fruitfulness when he hasn't sown a seed. Indolence shouldn't be consoled within us.

2. the way we approach challenges

If someone is better than you in a field or specialisation , it is a challenge to bring out the better you, not a space for envy and jealousy.
These too things(envy and jealousy) , will harden your heart from absorbing whatever good you may have learnt from a person. Telling you lies that you know better than the person in question. It gives you Ill feelings ,therefore obstructing you from development.

Moreover, Without challenges we can never be better. And set backs in life is not the end of it all. The heat of trials turns you into a precious stone.

So, what have you learnt?
Whatever gift you are given, go further, aspire to know more. It is your responsibility to develop it.

Above all, make God your backbone.

I to make you know, the way you accept this determines the result.