Can A Good Diet Keep Diabetes At Bay

Can A Good Diet Keep Diabetes At Bay

PAIN AND GAIN

Any relationship?

I do not know, only God knows, but everything good comes with a price tag on it. 

To the pessimistic, the journey seems over, life becomes hopeless and miserable.  Defeat and loss dominate his confession and no vestige of success appears anywhere.  The mountain seems to big, circumstances insurmountable.

To the optimistic, the possibility of loss is not ruled out in totality.  There could be even frustrations along the way, some of which could drive him to self pity, which could result to unwise decisions.  But the journey is not over, and as hope abides, joy builds and beckons.  Pain is taken as a necessary recipe of the successes that are to follow.

Success is not an event, nor is it a function.  The journey to your success could involve pain, but you should look beyond that pain to the outcome, to the greater purpose.  The pain is not the ultimate, nor is it the destiny but a means.  When your eyes are focused on the pain, you loose sense of its wider meaning and see yourself as an object of oppression.  Every pain has a purpose in your life.  Life does not afford us the opportunity to pay what we like and get what we want.  Hannah’s pain drove her to making a vow before God that she would give Samuel back to God.  In this turn of events, considering how needful this was to Israel, we came to grips with the purpose for the pain she went through.  Every trial will bring about triumph, and the gains that follow will make the suffering seem a trivial price to pay.  No suffering is meaningless for you, but is purposed to drive you to the arms of God.  In your pain, look forward unwaveringly to:-

•         The gain of having gone through gall.
•         The pleasure of having persevered the pain to perfection.
•          The crown of having conquered challenges and calamities.
•          The memory of mourning and mountains long moved.
•           The honor of having had a healthy hope.
•            The glory of having gone through gloom and gall.
•             The song of having survived storms and surprises, and more so the joy of being justified by Jesus Chris who, for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of God the father.

LEADERS & READERS

All Meeting In One Individual

Knowledge is good especially when it is organized into definite plans of action and applied towards some worthy and profitable end. If we all develop in-depth knowledge through reading, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world. In depth learning will be a benefit both to us and the world around us. If we make every effort to increase our knowledge in order to use it for human good, the world will be a different place altogether. Only God limits how far we can go. When books are opened we discover we have wings.

A leader who is not a reader and a learner hinders his own growth as well as of his subjects. His responsibilities are many and his leadership requires both knowledge and information. He is required to point out the goals to be achieved and identify the strategies and steps by which they will be achieved. A good leader leads by example. He reads and people read from his leadership. He gathers all the necessary information to prepare him for his work so that he can offer focused and quality leadership through in depth learning and thorough research.

He is able to develop himself both intellectually, socially, spiritually and psychologically. His orderliness and effectiveness, his integrity and character, even as he operates on a high moral plane, meet the expectation of his subject. He seeks to touch the heart of his subjects meeting the needs of each one of them. He stays informed and updated and always know the situation developing around his jurisdiction.

He is always a step ahead, formulating a way to react to the circumstances that his leadership faces, without loosing any of his subjects. All this necessitate his need for knowledge which comes through reading. Reading does not necessarily means books; it includes learning from others, from past failures, a willingness to listen to counsel and having a teachable spirit.

A leader receives information from any available sources, distills any useful bits and applies it to the prejudice of his adversity. Every man who knows how read has it in his own power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways, in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man, nothing else that he build ever lasts, but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead” (CLARENE DAY)

Leaders, arise up and read to your wings.

THE POWER OF INFORMATION

In a crowded place a young man asks, "whose wallet is this?" Everybody responds by touching, thereby revealling where they had kept theirs.  A hardsman lucky to have a goat on a market day and in dire need of cash set out to sell it as at other days.  A middle aged man asked him on the way, "What has your dog been feeding on?, it must fetch a good price today!"  The herdsman took him for a fool and continued.  A few steps ahead,  a young man jumped from a bush, exclaiming; "Hey, how dare you scare me with your dog?  Would you be so unfair?"  The hardsman looked at his goat closely and thought.  What kind of people are these who thinks my goat is a dog!, he went on with on towards the market.  At the cross roads towards the entry of the market grounds, an innocent looking man alighted from the lorry and came straight to him.  He spoke politely to the hardsman and said to him, " I know you came to sell your dog.  Please let me buy it right here.  They are going for a hundred shillings inside there"  He looked at his creature - this must be a dog, now convinced

Two Irreconciliable Side

In this world, every legitimate nation has a set of laws by which the citizens thereof are governed, so that there is no room left for lawlessness.  law breakers face the same law they had disregarded.  Law keepers often go unrecognized because the enforcer is out to stop and arrest the law breaker, both to fulfill his duty and to prove his competence and perfomance in his profession.  It is naturally easy to know who is breaking the law than it is to know who are keeping it, even when the offender is one among a thousand.  You look for the offender to punish rather than restore, but the Lord looks for the lawkeeper to reward.  The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears attentive to their cry. Their prayer find audience before Him, and they are the foremost agenda in His working.

God had told Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge.  Before then, the family was innocent, only trusting and obeying.  They were naked and not ashamed.  When they crossed the boundaries and took what was forbiden, they came to know what was good and what was bad, of course from a negative source.  This is the origin of our faulty assessments and evaluations of other peoples conducts.  We are often judgemental, always accusing,always castigating, always blaming and pointing fingers at others.  We see the speck in other people's eyes, when in our own eyes there is a plank.  You remember the guys who brought a woman caught in adultery to Jesus?  They thought He would join the club and blow the whistle for then.  But lo!, they found a different man, and went home looking at themselves rather than the woman.  They all left, and left Jesus with the lady.  They planned to kill her, but it turned out that they were connecting her with eternity.  See how the two sides are far apart; condemnation and compassion!  Because of our attitudes, we are of the side that has foes and friends, but Jesus died for all men.  Our physical attitudes  mostly lead us to our pals and acquitances, but Jesus is interested in the sinner to make him a saint.  He looks for the hopeless, the lost and the weary.
You can see, why in John2 He could not want any man's testimony about the other man, and why He did not entrust himself to any man, because He knew all men and knew what was in a man.  Today they want to make Him king by force, because they have eaten bread and fish by His miracle, tomorrow they want to stone Him because He says He is God, the other day they put palm branches for Him, calling Him blessed, then sometimes later they shout, Crucify Him.

Help us Lord.

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