THE STEW CALLED ME.

Hello guys; how's life with you? Quick one,recently I had occasion to try my hands on cooking again;its was a very interesting but confusing experience, I had to watch the stew all time,I could not watch tv and cook at the same time else it burns. The meat got burnt cos I was engrossed with Cnn's Quest means Business.

Anyway in the many events that occurred in the kitchen,I learnt a lesson and that forms the bases of this article.

While I was cooking my pot of stew,God dropped a word in my spirit. He said you are a pot of stew. Let me explain. Making stew requires attention to details. Ingredients and time.

Certain elements in the stew making process require been boiled separately e.g the meat, the tomatoes must be boiled differently too but however, the all come together at the end.

Your life is a pot of stew;there are certain events in your life that seem meaningless in the face of the overall objective of your life but given time,the all come together. Many times we are too quick to loose focus based on our inability of understand the many happenings in our lives,just like me, we get distracted by a program on the tv screen of other people's lives even when the program is not related to your prime objective.... Soon we are burnt meat.

Walking with God requires focus,it requires time. You cannot commit to Gods leadership yet be tossed back and forth by all kind of distractions. A good stew must have salt and other ingredients,it cannot be flat,it must have taste and anyone under Gods divine plan would have taste.

Secondly I learnt another lesson, a good man/lady must have taste, over the last few weeks,I have prayed like many of us seeking to settle down, we pray for relationships that would compliment us in outstanding ways. Sometimes we meet people and we need to be sure beyond the eyes that he or she is as the seem. Well for that God told me that a good man or lady is like a good stew,there must be something about him or her that reflects a conscious effort to align with the purpose of God. Character is like the ingredient called salt, without character a man or lady is just another meat ball. I had to do a quick check on my intended relationship to be sure she has taste.(Thank God does) hahahaha...so my friends; give yourself a quick check, give your relationship a quick check,is it flat tasteless or is it steaming hot with the aroma from spices? We are certainly at different level of growth hence what you encounter might differ from person to person but the underlining truth is that the life of a child of God is often dotted by integrity,character and excellence. Anything outside this is burnt mean. I pray that God would walk us through our days with the needed ingredients to fulfil his will.

God bless you.

Igonoh. Godwin
14/12/11