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Find Your Place and Stay There



Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place. Prov.27:8 (NIV)


One of the greatest advantages you can have in life is to find your place early and stay there. The challenges of life come to us all, but you may just find it so overwhelming when you are not in your place, as compared to the person who has found their place.


I am sure that you have come across one or two persons in life who excel and have an utter sense of fulfilment in what they do in life. It doesn’t have to be really big sometimes, but you can tell that they are in their place, where they should actually be. You may also have come across some persons whom you will consider clear misfits where they are, and in what they do. The latter set of people are most likely not to be prospering as they should, or I should say, they have potential to prosper more, if they find their place and stay there.


The same is true about your life. Sometimes you need to take a step back and ask yourself if you are truly in your place, and if you are not, then you need to seek God’s help to find it. More than finding your place, you also need the grace to persevere there. Finding your place alone in itself does not guarantee that you will succeed, you must stay there and do the work cut out for you.


You will hardly find any successful person who has no staying power, whether it is in ministry, in business, or any secular endeavour. If you lack the power to stay and work things out even when everything seems not to be working, you are most likely not to succeed. 


You will read from scriptures the stories of men and women who found their place and stayed there, even against common logic, and they prospered. A clear case is Ruth, in Ruth 1:16-17. She had found her place, and she was going to die working it out there, than taking any other option. She didn’t consider the easy way out, she didn’t follow what her sister-in-law did, and she didn’t follow the trend. It sure wasn’t all rosy, but in the end, she turned out so well, that we continue to share her story from generation to generation.


My encouragement to you today is to find your place. When you have found it, stay there and work it out. 


Don’t always seek the easy way out.


Don’t look to what others are doing, that will be a distraction from your own course. 


Dig your heels in the ground and do your thing, it won’t be long before we hear your testimony of faith and perseverance, and it will definitely bless the world.


Shalom!


Comments

  1. Anonymous27 April 2024 at 15:52

    Great tots

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  2. Anonymous27 April 2024 at 22:08

    May we all find our places early and stay focused on Jesus! Amen

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  3. Oladipupo28 April 2024 at 04:13

    Great!!

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  4. Anonymous1 May 2024 at 13:27

    Great read

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  5. Anonymous1 May 2024 at 17:22

    Dig your heels in the ground and do your thing 📌📌

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  6. Anonymous25 May 2024 at 18:25

    It's blessing and I advise you to publish this and other articles to form a yearly book for daily meditation as I'm considering doing for mine. I recommend it highly to guys our there in churches and career work places. Grace to you Olaide.

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  7. Anonymous1 November 2024 at 13:31

    More Grace Sir!
    You're doing a great work🙏

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