Sunday Conversations With The Manufacturer Pt 2
Dear Product,
You can't believe people's opinion of you, their opinion doesn't have to become your reality. Listen to me, I want you to understand that your perception of yourself dictates how far you can go and how much you can accomplish in life. And to have the right perception of yourself, you can't look to your circumstances to reveal that to you nor can you look to your academic qualifications to explain that to you. You can't trust your pastors evaluation of who you are nor your parent or friends or even your teachers and lecturers. None of these media has a clue to, who you really are and what you are capable of.
How then, you ask me, do I get the correct and accurate perception of who I am, if these media fall short in revealing it to me. Well, your question is not hard to decipher. Here it is, the truth about a product is hidden inside the manufacturer. No one knows the potential of a particular product more than the manufacturer, because he is the one who designed the product and he knows the stuffs he has loaded that particular product with.
Until the manufacturer reveals his intentions concerning a particular product, every other person is only guessing or experimenting. They have no clue as to the efficiency of that product. Whatever anyone has said or will say counts for nothing. Circumstances or experiences of other people regarding the product has nothing to do with the potential of that product. The intentions of the manufacturer concerning his product is the final and is the only accepted truth about the product, because he designed it. Are you getting me?
Therefore, it follows that if you are my product and I am your manufacturer, how then do you get my intentions communicated to you effectively?. You will get that answer in a minute, stay with me.
Every product in its product pack comes with its instruction manual. The instruction manual is what reveals or unveils the intentions of the manufacturer for his product to the user. The instruction manual reveals the potential and limitations of the product to the user, so that he or she can get the best use of it. So let's say, for instance, someone bought a new car and stated in the instruction manual that came with the car, was the potential of the car to travel 160miles per hour, but because you are scared of traveling in that speed and also counting the opinions of other people, you then travel at 50miles per hour. What happens is that you are falling short of the full potential of that car. Why, because you are counting the opinion of the manufacturer as nothing and following the opinions of other people who has no clue about what that particular car is loaded with.
Then, on a particular occasion while traveling on the road with the same car, someone else traveling with the same car, you are traveling with passes you at the speed of 100miles per hour. Then you are impressed and thought, "how did he/she get to do that". What you didn't know is that, that person has read the instruction manual and followed precisely the intentions of the manufacturer as stated in it, holding in high esteem what the manufacturer thought about his product and not what he thinks or any other person thinks.
I want you to get this, whatever you think about a particular product's efficiency counts for nothing, your experiences or other people's experiences and opinions cannot deride the potential of a particular product. As long as that opinion doesn't match with the intentions of the manufacturer as stated in the instruction manual of that product, it is as good as been thrown away. What exactly am I getting across to you?
Dear Product, I want you to realize that I am your manufacturer and I know what I have built inside of you. That's why I gave you the Bible as your instruction manual. I know you have the capacity to prevail over that particular circumstance, else I wouldn't have permitted it to happen to you. It is right there written in my instruction manual _"Their is no trial that is greater than your power to overcome it, because inside it, is also the way of escape for that trial._" Here is another one _"Greater is He that is in you than he that that is in the world"_. *Those trials you think you are facing and complaining bitterly about, is only revealing to you, the stuff that you are made of*. Why? Because the greater the challenges, the greater the power. And that power to overcome it, is sitting inside you right their, right now.
I have handcrafted you myself and built you for great exploits. You are powerful beyond what you think you are. You have greatness inside you. I fashioned you specifically to rule your world not to become a pauper begging for crumbs to eat.
That's not you! A thousand times no!
You can't fail!, because you are a success waiting to happen. Debunk all those theories of you not good enough, of you being an unfortunate kid, born to be a slave all your life.
That's not you! You are a born leader, destined for great exploits.
It is time, you let the world know who you are.
To be continued...
Culled from Dr Myles Munroe's sermon titled
"The Best Kept Secret"
Written by Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.
Glad you had a fruitful encounter in God's presence.
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