RANKED BY YOUR QUESTIONS (Part 2)

From my previous post, I shared my view about how we ask God questions. In this article, my focus is on how we ask ourselves and others questions. On daily basis, you cannot deny that you dont ask either yourself or others questions. About yourself, you may not have to open your mouth to ask questions before you ask yourself questions. Most questions you have been asking yourself are silent questions. Silent question refers to your inner communication through your thought faculty or imagination. Right now, think of questions you might have asked yourself today in your thoughts or in front of mirror. Then if you have not asked yourself question, then ask yourself questions now because you are alive and you need to ascend higher. Before you can ascend higher, you need to reason well and right and before you can reason well, you need to ask yourself right questions.
Asking yourself right question requires discipline and open-mindedness. Several times, we do behave like a jobless man who thought by drinking more alcohol drinks will solve his family and other problems by forgetting everything under the influence of beer or hot drinks. We tend to pretend that everything is and thus, we keep asking ourselves wrong questions. We tend to make ourselves bigger than we are thereby asking ourselves questions that will put us in stagnant mode. Stagnant mode is a position where someone is not progressing in reality but his or her thought is happy that there is great progress. For example, if a 5 year old boy receives 20 naira as lunch in school and when he is 10 years, he is collecting 21 naira. He will think there is increase because of 1 naira addition whereby what he used to buy 5 years ago is now 40 naira.
Interdependence among human beings is crucial for us to grow and maintaining it is major setbacks we encounter every moment of each day. When we do not know how to ask right questions, there is no doubt that we may not receive right answers from others. When a child asks her mum cooking in the kitchen pertaining what she heard somewhere about using kerosine to cook. She asked, " Mum when will you add kerosine, maggi, curry to the stew on the gas cooker because my friend told me that they use kerosine to cook? Her mum laughed at her.
As matter of fact, knowing how to ask yourself question inlvoves creativity and vision likewise how you ask others questions. You will definitely soar higher in life when you ask yourself uplifting questions and believe it or not, every great man in great position today has asked uncountable great question in his past. You will put yourself in either lower rank or higher rank by the questions you ask God, yourself and others.
You can comment or make suggestions here and you can add me on my twitter handle by clicking here or my facebook here. I'm your online friend and believe you can soar higher when you keep asking right question. Remain cool.

RANKED BY YOUR QUESTIONS

Either you are child or not, we all have been asking foolish qestions. At times you considered them as the the wisest questions you ever asked then. At one stage in life, you began to ask both necessary and unnecessary questions and your parents would feel like, "Are you not tired of asking the same questions? This child won't kill me with questions." As child then, life was interesting because of your curiosity about life and its environment. You might have seen stone, sand, birds and others and asked your parents but there were things like food and drinks you won't ask them because you opened your eyes in them as an infant then.
The questions you used to ask then as a kid will begin to run away from you if actually you are growing mentally, psychologically and other aspects of your life. Although, a child may grow physically at fast pace like Obasanjo agric chicks but it does not mean he or she is growing mentally and spiritually. Having known this, you have to examine yourself to diagnose any impairment or irregularity in the quality of your questions. Remember that right questions produce right answers. How sound and outstanding you are depends on 3 questions you ask and those questions are directed to God, others and yourself.
How do you ask God? Famous verse in the Bible whispers that ask and you shall receive. Then if you don't know how to ask God questions, you may not get the answers that will nourish your life spiritually and physically. Asking God questions goes beyond what you God to do for you. It also involves how God wants you to live your life right and according to His purpose. One of the teaching of Jeus Christ was ask first and receive and it led thousands of people to keep asking Jesus, "Can you give us more bread and fishes.", "Can you be our king so that we won't suffer in the hands of Roman Empire?" They were not asking the right questions. The person that asked the right question was Nicodemus. You remembered what he asked Jesus? What must I do to enter the kingdom of God? You need to know the way you are asking God questions and what you ask Him. Your questions to God most times show the level of your spiritual maturity and no one is judging about this but God is watching.
This is where I'm going to put a stop in this post. Be expecting part 2 soon. It will cover aspects of how you ask others questions and yourself questions. I'm just your online or real friend or both. Thanks for reading and I hope you have extracted out some points which will transform your life for better. You can freely share my post and comment or contact me via my facebook account or my twitter handle. Remain cool.

MEDIA PLAYER: YOUR MIND

Today's post is more psychological and it provides some facts and points you can grab. How you allow the operation of your mind matters but another issue that most of us are so busy that we are not aware of operations in our minds. Mind can be regarded as a place where different ideas and thoughts queue up like songs in the media playlist in your phone or laptop. There are some songs that make you smile, sad, cry and feel different emotion. While few songs showed error, and stopped playing, you already know what it implies.
The implication of a song that gets stuck in media player is that it frowns and annoys with other cool and inspiring songs on the line waiting for their time to play. You have choice to remove the songs from the playlist so that other songs can bring out their beats and lyrics. You also have choice to leave it stuck and other songs will be on the queue for as long as you leave the stuck song in the media player.
Your mind works like media player. If you keep playing songs that make you sad, your moods and countenance will emulate what the songs you play. During birthday or wedding party, the songs that are usually addded in the mixer of DJ are high tempo and danceable songs because the purpose of wedding is never to mourn or to be sad. As you already know that your mind functions like media, how should you monitor what you keep playing in your mind? Ideas that you put in playlist of your mind can either make your life miserable or meaningful. When you keep thinking and living about the past, you already get stuck and new ideas and inspired thoughts will be on the queue and they wont reach your mind till it may be too late.
Nevertheless, you can remove the faded and cracking ideas and experiences that stand like fences which stop the journey of new and inspiring ideas and thoughts into your mind. How to remove the faded and cracking ideas depends on your discipline and readiness to leg go of what hold you back. The typical example that got someone stuck in faded and cracking ideas will be analyzed.
In the Bible, it is that lady that turned to a pillar of salt. She was instructed to let go of those golden jewellry, bangles and the billion dollars in the bank. As she stepped out of the house with her family, there some corrupted songs that stopped the flow of new and redemptive songs to move her away from the Sodom amd Gomorrah. Her story serves as an example for us and Jesus also used her as illustration, "Remember Lot's wife". Her story ended there as she decided to look back and looking back at times may result to accident even as a driver on the high-way.
I'm still your friend and you may comment here, share my post, contact me on details about this post facebook and twitter. Thanks for reading and keep forging ahead in all your aspirations in life.

LIZARD BIGGER THAN CROCODILE?

Today's focus is based on the lessons you can learn from these two animals: lizard and crocodile. By mere looking at them even though some of us have not seen real life crocodile at the bank of river or at the zoo, you will notice that they have similarities and differences. Some of us have not had any opportunity to be in zoo or in an an environment where crocodiles are common. It does not mean that we have not seen it in the large picture when we were in primary school neither can you deny not knowing how it looks like in television. But lizard is everywhere and you can easily spot them around fences because they used to use fences to build their estates where they relax in their parlours and sleep in their beds but I dont know if they use pillows too so that they would not have neck-ache whenever they wake up.
When you observe lizards, they have courage when you attempt to throw stones at them. They used to feel, "I won't run away from your stone." At times, Mathematicians assume that lizards are learning how to count numbers when they throw stones at them and they would still be gazing at them instead of running for survival. That is just lizard for you. Lets observe crocodile before we venture into what we are after in this article. Crocodile used to be residing both off and on water. It does not learn Mathematics from Mathematicians but it can turn human beings to pepper soup which will be delicious without adding maggi or any spices in its mouth. Crocodile has been known to be dangerous and wild, and perhaps if you have not seen it before now, that may be one of the reasons they dont allow it to play around in the neighbourhood.
Now, the enviness of lizard to be as big as crocodile is futile and unrealistic. No amount of fat drugs and fatty feed you think a lizard will swallow that will make it big as half of crocodile's size talk less of a whole crocodile. It is not about how old a lizard is that will make it big as crocodile. If crocodile fast for 40 days and 40 night, it can never reduce or slim its size and weight to lizard's size and weight. It is in the gene and design. God created them differently and no matter how envious lizard is, it can never be big like crocordile. It is not a curse but the reality.

Therefore, you are created by God and your envy of others is not going to make you to become them but you will lose your identity in trying to envy someone else. You do not need to be as fat as elephant before you reach your greatness because it doesn't matter how your stature is. If a lizard becomes envy of crocordile, tell it to spend a day in the water if it won't drown in the water. Get down to the mine of your God-given potentials and make use of those embedded talents and don't be surprised that instead of you envying others, others will begin to envy you. It is better for others to envy you than for you to envy others. You cannot stop people from envying you because you may not know but you can stop envying others because you know yourself from your better self with the help of Holy Spirit.
Be real to yourself and remember that over-feeding a lizard for a thousand years  cannot make it be like crocodile. I'm just a friend and if you feel you need more info about this post, you can contact me on my facebook or my twitter. You can also share it and I know you are the best you can be when you explore the embedded resources in you without envying anyone. Thanks and watch out for my next post soon.

MORE MUSCLE TO KEEP SILENCE

There is an adage or common saying that it takes more muscle to get angry. Most of the time, when you get angry, you talk more than necessary or required of you to make peace to reign even though it could be painful. In this article, you will realize that you need more muscle to keep silence. I will also share with you the physical practical example for you to realize that ability to keep silence at the proper time and unpalatable painful time requires muscles.
Your imagination of muscles may seem to be  based on physiology but in my context, it travels beyond what you might have thought if you think I referred to physical muscles. This kind of muscles, you cannot develop at the gym where you will be instructed to lift weight.  It is not kind of muscle that you develop when your dieticians prescribed supplement capsules or drugs for you to consume on regular basis.
When a dog notices a stranger in his territory, it is natural for it to bark on top of his voice to scare him or her off or to alert his owner to verify the identity of the stranger if it is its master's relative or friends. At that point, its master could make a statement to stop it but it takes disciplined dog to keep silence after its master shouted at it to stop barking. Disciplined dog is dog that has been tortured for eating live chick in the neighbourhood and was punished through beating and it never tried to eat dead chick talk less of live chick.
Self-discipline is one of virtues which you must and I mean pou must possess before you can become a person of valuable and successful. You need it in order for you to develop more muscles so that you can keep silence when you need to keep silence. It may be difficult at times but when you remain disciplined enough, it would be fun. When you hear that do not revenge or retaliate, do you believe in that principle? Turn the other cheek when someone slaps you says Jesus. It means you need to control your hand that wants to slap back in retaliation. But in the case where you know that you cannot slap back, you need discipline to keep silence without grumbling or backbiting or blackmailing the person with your mouth.
Now this is time for me to share with you about the example I raised earlier that will make you understand that it takes more muscles to keep silence. Children are not matured, right? They cannot keep quiet when they are sitting in the court with their parents to support their company or association, for instance. They would still make noise no matter what their parents instruct them because they are not matured and disciplined enough and thus, they cannot control their tongues. They talk more than parrots but it is unfortunate that some of young and adult people talk more than children without control.
This reminds me of incident that happened on my journey from Ondo to Ilorin. When I highlighted from the car at Osogbo, I joined a bus going to Ilorin. There was a man and woman talking loudly as they boarded the bus till they highlighted. I cannot say they were husband and wife or brother and sister and they were both matured adult. They were not speaking my language and other passengers too were quiet even though they could not understand what they were talking about. I won't mention the likely language so that I won't  be percieved as bias person as it has never been in my agenda to tarnish image of any tribe. They talked for about 3 hours and when they highlighted, some other passengers started unleashing their annoyance about their talk disturbance from the inception of our journey.
In  a nutshell, it takes discipline and maturity to keep silence when strange spirit try to give you million reasons or excuses to talk harshly and foolishly back or to people. If you are baby, you can talk anyhow without hearing comments from people because they feel that is how naturally baby talks. If your muscles is as weak as baby's, then nothing distinguishes you from children except age and stature. Keep your muscles exercise and keep silence when you need to keep silence even though the heat from the pot burns your hands or something else annoys you.
I'm always your friend and you can always share or post a comment here or my twitter or my facebook. Thanks for reading and watch out my next post soon. Remain cool.

BLEACHING DOES NOT UNLEASH BEAUTY

First of all, beauty is meant to be natural. Nature is beautiful and no matter how you want to design something, it can never be as beautiful as it is in natural state. There is artificial flower that is being designed with rubber and paints. It looks attractive without blooming. If you see far away from it, you might mistake it as real flower. This artificial painted rubber flower does not need water or proning because it is not real. In educational arena, they will call it substitute for real object as an instructional materials. Now, lets look at natural beauty and artificial beauty even though you might have another perspective on what beauty means to you. It is quite sensible and undisputable when you hear, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder."
It is often confusing at times when you hear "I wish I were white person like so so and so". Without knowing deep inside most white people that they wish they were black and chocolate in complexion. Being white person does not mean being angel or God. The real reasons God created clay soil to have reddish colour and loamy soil to have grey colour are unknown to men. We might assume the real reasons but none of the soils is useless to human beings. We have been attaching values to them based on how they are being useful to us. None of the soils is useless despite their colour differences.
How possible can you change or bleach the colour of clay soil to the colour of loamy soul? It does not make any meaning and sense to ascribe value to someone based on his skin colour. If a white person sees a black mad person and concludes black people are inferior to white, then it means that a white mad person is more valuable and better than a black white person as a result of the skin colour according to him.
Advertisement of bleaching cream, soap and other products entices alot of us to think that we are going to be more beautiful or handsome when we bleach our skins and it will portray bleaching as the means to look beautiful. As a matter of facts, they are succeeding in getting their products sold to people and several people are showing different side effects on daily basis although you may not be aware of them. The time when negative side effect will show on you if you are using bleaching product is going to be different from your friend or someone you know that use the same product. The next observation you need to know is that your cloth is not your skin.
You can bleach your cloths by taking it to tie-and-dye artist to transfrom it to any colour you want. Your skin is natural and you cannot treat your skin the way you treat your cloths. Do you love your cloths more than your body (skin)? Throughout your life-time, you change cloths and their colours to point of changing their colour to their original state but you cannot change your colour twice. For example, you cannot feel like bleaching your dark skin to white this year and after next two years, bleach it back to dark complexion.
The issue of make-ups and no makes is broad and I would not like to venture into it now till later on in another post. Bleaching is a guarantee that you will look more beautiful and attractive. I would not like to dig deeper into the repercussion of bleaching as there are several lessons bleaching victims have learnt which they would love to correct but it is too late to correct. Appreciate your God-given skin colour and avoid using bleaching products because you are wonderfully and beautifully made just the way you are. It is found in Psalm that you are beautifully and wonderfully made and if you feel you are not, keep bleaching and you may need to pay the price of bleaching even though it might take a month, a year or few years to pay. Remember that bleaching does not unleash your beauty.
I'm just your friend and if you want more details and suggestions, you are always free to post your comment and you may share this post. Thanks and fly away from the planet of bleaching.