SOME LESSONS PEOPLE LEARN TOO LATE IN LIFE – The Church Of Christ, 15 Grey Street, Warri

Presented by Bro. GODWIN NENE (DEACON)

Text: Matthew 27:3-5

DEFINITION:

Lesson is anything discovered after an events or revelations by someone that is more knowledgeable than you, it might be true life experience or knowledge acquired throughout learning. We all are bind to learn from ours or others mistake.

INTRODUCTION

So many young people don’t know how wonderful it is to be young, only to regret it at their old age, when they are 70 – 75 years old.

A woman tell her doctor, ‘i have a bad back, ‘the doctor says, it’s old age. The woman says, I want a second opinion, the doctor says, okay you’re ugly as well. – Tommy copper

For the purpose of this discussion we are going to look at five (5) important lessons people learn too late in life.

LESSON #1. NOT TAKING RISK, IS RISKY

You see an average human beings growing up to take life easy, he will wants to start business or carrier, but be afraid that he/she might lose money, you might want to pursue a passion, but be afraid, why is it not working, you asked.

Most people are cowards who live their life worries about what may happen if they failed at what they wish to do, however in the future we end up regret most of the work we did not attempt to do, and probably not what we did no result.

That was why the general saying that grave is the richest place on earth. Because many people die with ideas and knowledge because they refused to take risk. Please don’t die with your ideas, take risk.

LESSON #2. COMPLIANT SOLVE NO PROBLEMS

Take a moment to look around you, virtually everybody is complaining about one thing or the other, either the economy is bad or the government of the country is not doing enough, we believe the cause of our present conditions was because of the government.

some even blame their parents, and series of complaints and excuses about who we are today, however, in the nearest future when we get to the age of 65/70 years old, we will discovered that complaints and excuses don’t solve problems. Today maybe you are complaining about the economy, the government or anything else, but you don’t have power to change many of those thing you are complaining about. Successful people concentrate their energy on what they can change, not what they can’t change.

Stop complaining today and take action toward your goals.

LESSON #3. THE FIRST ASSESSMENT OF ANY HUMAN BEINGS IS TO KNOW WHY HE WAS BORN

This is the third lesson that can change our lives. You see so many people goes through lives just trying to catch up what the society wants them to do, or what their parents or peers influenced them to do.

So many people became adults to think of the best profession that can fetch them more money, or the profession their parents think is the best for them. But not too many people think of their strengths, potential, capacity and passion before choosing their profession.

Study shown that about 80% of people in the world hates their jobs. You celebrate your birthday every year, let’s remember that our birthday is not as important as the day you know why you were born.

Don’t waste your time in pursuing what people think is the right thing for you, try to understand your strength, potential and passion before pursuing your goals in life.

LESSON #4. BEING HONEST WITH YOURSELF IS VERY IMPORTANT

Being honest with yourself, it means that you should understand your strength, must people criticised themselves all their life for not being able to do things what most people does without dig deep into how those people gets to where they are presently, only to discovered at old age that they have wasted their life struggling to be other people.

Be honest with yourself, you don’t try to be good or know everything, know your witness and embarrass your strength.

LESSON #5. SUCCESS ISN’T IN THE FUTURE AND THIS IS A BIG ONE

Almost all of us lives in the future, when we young, we thought that we going to be happy when we by the time we grow up to become adults, by the time we are adult, we thought we are going to be happy by the time we are marry, when we are married.

We believe happiness will come when we have kids, only for us to discovered that kids are expensive to raise, but somehow we think we are going to be happy when those kids grow up, we think we going to be happy if we have enough money to send the kids to good schools, when that’s achieved, we think we are going to be happy after all if we can become millionaire, if some of us can make it to the level of millionaire, we believe we going to be happy if we can become the richest person in the world, that’s how we continue to postponed our happiness till forever.

When we are old, we finally discovered that happiness is not in the future. We now discovered that nothing in life makes us happy tomorrow. The lesson here is “BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW“