When I was a kid, I was afraid of the concept of running a business but at the same time I never liked to be employed and work for someone else. This was a dilema. If I were to escape the idea of being employed, I would have to be an employer who owns a business.
The fear of being an employer was encouraged by my fear of failure. The question I could not answer was, “What if the business fails and I can’t pay my employees.” To a certain extent I wanted to be an honourable man who is there for the lives of those who would expect a salary from me. Their families would look to me for survival. I guess the weight of such a responsibility scared my tender heart.
An Easy Way of Compromise
Somehow I was led to a direction that appeared to have had not much responsibility when seen from a distance. Through my young eye it seemed to have neither an employee nor employer. Yet it was well organized and thriving. Church is that place.
When I was asked, “What you wanna be when you grow up?” I said, “I wanna be a Pastor.” I have no idea why I said that as a six year old? Maybe it is due to the supposed ease of living which I associated in my mind with the church.
I must have thought that pastors have no problems and they do not need to worry about being employed or about paying employees.
If anyone told me that I would be a director of my own business in 2019, I would have dismissed them as insane. I mean, in my 1990 mindset being six years old, there was no such thing as 2019. I always got stuck at 1999 when counting the years. I would count and end up saying something absurd like 19-90-10, that is, “ninteen ninty ten.” I knew right then that what I was saying was nonsense. Since I had no idea that 2000 came after 1999, I subscribed to the idea that the world will end after 1999.
With that being said, if anyone was to tell me that I would be a director of my own company in 2019. I would have found them to be way besides themselves.
Life Has No Guaranties
My idea of becoming a pastor in the future was side trcked when on eof relatives told me that there was no money in becoming a pastor and ordered me to choose another profession. In the case I chose to be a medical doctor. For 12 years of my school days I laboured so that I would become a doctor.
When I entered the university, it dawned on me that I didn’t want to be a doctor. I was called to be a pastor. For whatever reasons I had back then I wanted to be a pastor.
Years later, I became a pastor. Not only that, I also became employed for a total of 3 years and then I became a business owner. Who would have thought that all this could happen?
What God has planned will come to pass
I once heard the late Dr Myles Munroe saying there are lots of people who have died without writing the books they were meant to write or doing great stuff they were born to do. I disagree with that statement. No one can avert the purposes of God. If God had laid it down that I shall write a book then I shall do it even on my death bed.
Some people would always purport a a notion that God is a failure. In fact, Kenneth Copeland once uttered those words plainly in this wise: “The biggest failure in the world is God.” This is plain blasphemy. It doesn’t matter how he tried to justify his statement, it remains the fact that he blasphemed against God.
He just undermined the omnipotency and omnisciency of God. He totally displayed deliberate amnesia or plain ignorance of the sovereignty of God. A number of preachers possess in their mental universe a puny idea of God. They have fashioned to themselves a god to their liking, who is under the constrains of the human will.
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