The Strength of Good Mother.

One young man went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the initial interview, and now would meet the director for the final interview. The director discovered from his CV that the youth’s academic achievements were excellent. He asked, “Did you obtain any scholarships in school?” the youth answered “no”. ” Was it your father who paid for your school fees?” “My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees.” he replied. ” Where did your mother work?” “My mother worked as clothes cleaner.” The director requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect. ” Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?” “Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Besides, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.

The director said, “I have a request. When you go home today, go and clean your mother’s hands, and then see me tomorrow morning. The youth felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back home, he asked his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings, she showed her hands to her son. The youth cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. His tear fell as he did that. It was the first time he noticed that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled, and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother winced when he touched it. This was the first time the youth realised that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fees. The bruises in the mother’s hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his education, his school activities and his future. After cleaning his mother hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes for his mother. That night, mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director’s office. The Director noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes, when he asked: “Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?” The youth answered,” I cleaned my mother’s hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes’ “I know now what appreciation is. Without my mother, I would not be who I am today. By helping my mother, only now do I realize how difficult and tough it is to get something done on your own. And I have come to appreciate the importance and value of helping one’s family. The director said, “This is what I am looking for in a manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life.” “You are hired.”

This young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates. Every employee worked diligently and worked as a team. The company’s performance improved tremendously. A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop an “entitlement mentality” and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent’s efforts. When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him, and when he becomes a manager, he would never know the sufferings of his employees and would always blame others. For this kind of people, who may be good academically, they may be successful for a while, but eventually they would not feel a sense of achievement.

They will grumble and be full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parents, are we really showing love or are we destroying our children instead? You can let your child live in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch on a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experience it. After a meal, let them wash their plates and bowls together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your child learns how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability to work with others to get things done.

GET RID OF DEAD WEIGHT

If you are among people who never attain their purpose in life, the reason may be a few simple attitudes you have cultivated that is called ''dead weight." From experience I have found the four major dead weight that we must get rid of in our life in order to attain our goals. They are as follows:

1. Pain of change:

Sometimes we refuse to accept change because of our previous success that lead our confidence grew into the arrogance of success, therefore we become afraid of getting lost and making a fool of ourselves on our way to new direction that is unknown to us, we ask question like; is there any place better than where we are? Or even if there is, what if we don't find it, over analyzing the situation and becoming afraid of going into new direction and when fear grip us the next thing is we keep doing the same things over and over again and wonder why things don't get better instead of letting go what is behind and trusting what lay ahead for us. Remember, There is an element of pain in all change, but those you put into action yourself are far less painful that ones thrown at you by others. If this wasn't so ridiculous, it would be even funnier.

2. Self-Doubt:

When we're engrossed by negative conviction, we believe everything we do will be wrong. When we're thinking like this it is likely that everything we do fail, and ultimately, we fail. Instead of looking for what we did wrong, look at what you did right. Keep an ''up" attitude over come rejection, and keep trying. Soon, you'll start to win. The wins will start to pile up until they smother all self-doubt under a mountain of positive conviction.

3. Fear of failure:

How many times have you refuse to try something because you were afraid you'd fail? Isn't it sad how many of us doom ourselves to mediocre lives rather than accept the momentary rejections that success demands? We must challenge our fear and conquer each fear forever. Soon, you will find that every time you conquer a fear, the easier it will be to beat the next one. Remember: do what you fear most and you will control that fear.

4. Fear of losing our security:

We are so afraid of losing the security we have that we won't give it up to get the greater security we seek. I truly believe that there is no such thing as security other than the security we build within ourselves. We are only secure to the extent of our ability to cope with the struggle called living, and we cannot be more secure than our capabilities of handling insecurity allow us to be. This means we have to give up what we have, to get what we want. If we refuse to give up anything, where will the space, time, money, and energy for new achievement come from?

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FACING THE FUTURE

FACING THE FUTURE
What do you desire God to do in your life? What goals do you want to achieve? Have you sought the Lord’s direction for His purpose and calling for your life?

The mistake that we often make is to procrastinate, putting off until tomorrow what we are more than capable through Christ
of doing today.

But my dear friend, do not idle away the precious time that God has given you by merely desiring and aspiring – without perspiring; without making an effort, without putting your hand to the plough; you can not expect any results.

Start where you are now and face the future.

THE PRIVILEGES OF THE FUTURE
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 7:8: Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (KJV)
It would be foolish to think that better days are over for you; if you think that ‘the good old days’ are the best that God has for you. No matter what a year holds and what you have experienced in the past, it is not over yet.
In the programme and provisions of God, He always saves the best ‘til last. No matter what a man goes through, the latter end is always the best end. The Bible says even though your beginning be small, your latter end shall be great, and that even though a man go through the valley of the shadow of death, his end will be in the house of the Lord.

When God begins a thing in your life, He doesn’t close the book until He finishes a good work with you and in you (Philippians 1:6).
Sometimes you may not feel like you are a special person set apart for greatness; you may even hate change and like things the way they are. But you see, God knows what He is doing and He sees a better day ahead. No matter how good it looks today, it is not comparable to the best God still has for you. Don’t despise today. God wants to do a new thing. The New Year will introduce you to new opportunities.

THE PURPOSE OF THE FUTURE
Purpose is the engine room of your life and you must find it, fuel it, and fulfil it. Purpose has the capacity to wake up dormant abilities in you. Your purpose was put in place before you even arrived on this earth. God has said to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)). So that includes you.

Your purpose will protect you from living your life according to other people’s expectation. Your purpose will help you to navigate your way in life and appreciate the fact that God has fixed the end of your matter for good, despite how bad it looks now. Nothing at any stage of your life is comparable to your coming attraction. That’s why, with his eye on the future, Job said: “I will wait until my change comes” (Job 14:14). Nothing in your present compares with your future. In fact, the present satisfaction is the enemy of the future best. You can’t afford to be attached to anything in your present. It would be foolish to get into a false sense of security in the present when tomorrow holds a greater testimony. Read 1 Corinthians 2:9 and realise that what God is about to do in your life is nothing short of awesome.

PLAN THE FUTURE
Nothing works without a plan. Proverbs 24:3-4 says: A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense.
Through knowledge its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables. (Living Bible)
You must be true to yourself and plan for the future. If you are not true to yourself you will eat the bread of deceit. Don’t flatter yourself and pretend that things are right when they are wrong.
Blaming people will not help you and looking back with a negative view causes you to walk in low self-esteem, self-blame and self pity.
If you do not break out of denial and blaming the people from your past, you will repeat your failures over and over and over.
Don’t live on what you have lost: forget it and face the future. You are a child of God, born of God and ‘whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.’ (1 John 5:4 KJV). Don’t celebrate failure and don’t explain defeat. Refuse to build around failure.

Move away from the people of yesterday, the problems of yesterday and the stories of yesterday. Experience the triumph of faith spoken of in 1 John 5:4 and become unstoppable. Take the limits off God and go and do the undoable. In John 2:1-11, the people faced a problem. They ran out of wine. But rather than play the blame game the mother of Jesus told the servants, ‘Whatever He says to you, do it’. Likewise, let the Word, produce your dream, produce your vision and produce your expectation.

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