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There are some words that take away all the joy from a man’s heart when they hear it. One of such is the word “DEATH”. It connotes lifelessness, helplessness, hopelessness, forlornness. It brings sorrow and it takes beauty out of life.
How many people will agree with me that death actually is the beauty of life? A life without death is a life not worth living. It is a life that is sour, tasteless and bitter. Such a life is valueless, drab and uninteresting. The design of God for us is to find life in death. We may never enjoy the beauty that the Word of God has for us except we die.
“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit (John 12:24)”; our fruitfulness in any area of our lives is a function of death to unfruitfulness. At every point in time in our lives for us to move from one stage to another stage it requires some form of death. Poverty has to die to attain prosperity; illiteracy has to die to attain literacy. Sickness has to die for health to surface. To function in faith, fear has to die. In order to live life to the full, there has to be several deaths in different aspects of our lives, which we may not be conscious of when they are taking place.
Our perception in life truly determines our outcome in life. If death is perceived wrongly, we would get wrong results which would end up in death the way we all know it. Our definition of death must be redefined in the light of the finished work of Jesus on the cross of Calvary.
When we walk in this light that‘’ Death is Living’’, then we stop being afraid and it no longer has any clutch over us. The fear of it loses its grip on us. The only known enemies that have held us in bondage all through our lives is Death and Fear. This duo has so much grip on mankind that it prevents from accessing the “beauty of life in death”. Inside each word spoken by God, lies life and the benefits of life. It takes the discerning and the spiritually intelligent to come to term with this truth. Jesus Christ said: ‘’The word that I speak unto you are Spirit and life’’ (Jn.6:63). However, the fear of death prevents us from harnessing the life in the spoken WORD.
If you are not ready to lay your life down in death you can never succeed in business as designed by God. Every patriarch that ever did exploits and was celebrated, was a person that was familiar with the “beauty of life in death”. In order for the seed promised to Abraham by God to come into existence, he celebrated and relished death( … he considered his own body not being dead ,neither the deadness of Sarah’s womb, against hope he believed in hope (Rom.4:19)- in death he believed in life and fully persuaded that life could come out of death…)
Same for his son Isaac, who was ready to die believing God’s words that his seeds would multiply in famine. And because of this believe system brought about by the spoken WORD of God, he recorded unprecedented, gargantuan result in business that stupefied the entire country at his time. All of this is as a function of readiness to die for what God said. Planting in famine was like a suicide mission, while others were fleeing.
If you are not ready to lay your life down to take God at His word by dying to your senses, you can never work in divine health. It is only when the WORD of God has become your life and you are ready to die for the truth in the word of God that says “…by His stripes you were healed”, that is when you are truly beginning to live.
You must take your stand on the WORD even with disease and sickness ravaging your body, and symptoms screaming loudly in your ear that you are going to die. You’ve got to be ready to die before you can LIVE under such a circumstance. It is only people that are dead that can truly live because they have lost their fear of death and have lost their fear of fear itself. (Hebrew 2:14-15).
There was neither help nor hope for Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Daniel. The only option they had was death and they went for it and they lived. Many times in our lives and businesses we would be confronted with situations that look like death and circumstances of destruction. However, it is our interpretation of the circumstance and understanding of the “beauty of life in death” that makes for living. We know for sure it may look like death but resident inside that situation is life, and life in abundance. If death was not present Jesus would not have spoken about the LIFE He brought (Jn. 10:10).
If you are not dead you cannot live when the economy is crashing, the pillars that are supposed to hold the world together seem to be collapsing and fear seems to be the order of the day. You cannot claim to be living when the fear of death has paralyzed you. Life is not worth living under such a condition because, you are already dead, and it’s just that you do not know. I believe recognizing the beauty that is in death as expatiated and appropriating it makes for true living. Not embracing this truth and living in fear has killed you already.
Every truth written in the word of God remains on the pages of the Bible alone and are ineffective, until we are ready to die (to dare to believe them and act on them even when the circumstances are contrary) otherwise we may never birth the life that they possess. Beloved, scriptures says “oh death where is your sting… (1 Cor. 15:55)”As you stare death in the face whether in your business or career (through sack letter), remember resident in that situation is life that Jesus brought, so harness it.
Remain Blessed
