THE VOICE OF GOD (V.O.G.)
TOPIC: AS YOU TAKE CARE OF OTHERS, DON'T FORGET YOURSELF.
TEXT : SONGS OF SOLOMON 1 VS 6.
Don't look down on me because I am black, because the sun was much on me.
MY MOTHER'S CHILDREN MADE ME TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR VINEYARDS BUT MINE, I DID NOT TAKE CARE OF.
In life, if you are not careful, you will labor for others and forget to labor for yourself.
If you are not wise enough, someone else takes over what belongs to you in destiny just as Jacob took over the birthright of Esau.
If you are not diligent enough, those you showed the way, takes you out of the way.
In this manner many are down today because they took care of everyone else and none took care of them.
Such and more are the battles in most families and organizations.
In life, there are battles both seen and unseen.
Sometimes, you meet and see brothers and sisters of destruction, palm wine tappers of destiny who are ready to suck you dry.
They only care about themselves, children and family.
It's all about them, their needs and what they want and how you have not tried enough for them.
Hear me, stop killing yourself for someone who can't kill himself to do the same thing for himself.
Listen to this and never get it wrong,
In life, no one truly cares for you. In other words, if you die for others, with time they will forget you.
Solomon in our text lamented when his children began to ask him questions thus he answered them saying,
My mother's children made me work for them and I never had time to work for myself.
Is this your experience now?
Caring for everyone and forgetting yourself?
Know this, in life if you don't work for your vineyard, others will make you work for them and later claim your own vineyard.
In our text, a king and a wise preacher of his day expressed his pain because of what others around him made him go through. He called them his mother's children.
He exclaimed,
They made me keeper of their farm but mine I didn't take care of.
Who made him? His family, friends, his father's house and loved ones.
Many are just in the same shoe. They have given all to their family, in turn they are the most hated, misunderstood and betrayed in the same family yet through them, the family stood.
No one remembers.
Listen, learn to first take care of yourself.
As you are training others, train your children first.
As you feed others, eat first.
In Genesis 50 vs 20, Joseph complaining about his experience when he reunited with his family ,he said,
You sold me for evil but God turned it for good.
Jephtha though later great, was first sent out from his father's house by his own brothers. Judges 11 vs 1.
Joseph was sold by his brothers. The same people he loved and gave food to eat. Genesis 37 vs 12 to 36.
Solomon said they subjected him to serve. Song of Solomon 1 vs 6.
As you take care of others, please take care of your yourself too.
Help people but help yourself first.
Don't ever carry a load for anyone that will bend you over.
CONFESSIONS:
As I take care of others, I take care of myself too.
I will not forget to solve my own problem because of someone else's problem.
My days of ignorance and foolisness is over and my days of wisdom and glory is here.
Halleluyah.
Author...Pst Chris & Chibuzo Isaac Onyekwere.
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