JUST ONE LIFE!

JUST ONE LIFE!

Whenever I think about the life given to us, I feel guilty and sad, this is not because I am not appreciating the fact that God has been so good to us, by giving us the privilege to come and live on this Terrace, but on different occasions, I have think over and over again, that I will be guilty if I live all this life time and fail to do what I have been tasked to do. One of the reasons why I usually get angry with myself is the fact that I have discovered that I was not created on earth here just to be a living component on earth, but to do something tangible, I am not just on earth, but am here for a purpose, not just an ordinary one but an extra-ordinary, to make some wrongs right, to get some things which are out of its course fixed, to add beauty to this ugly looking world, to give a smile to my frowning generation. Indeed, I have discovered some things, which the present world desperately need, oh! The world is in need of so many things that I know I can offer, YES! They are things that I can offer, because I know that I know evidently that I have them all, this gave me the impression that I am not just on earth, I am here for some special purposes, I am designed to proffer some solutions to the problems facing the world, No wonder! I am not unfortunate to be living in this part of the world, no wonder, it is normal that all this so called mishaps are happening on daily basis in the society where I belong to, Oh! I think I now get a glimpse on the reason why I was raised in a kind of environment as this. I was designed to make something occur, I was created beyond ordinary, I was created to start something and to put an end to some particular things. Indeed I have a reason for living. But sincerely, though there are very lots of things before me, yet there is a limited time for all this that I have got to do. All the purposes behind my existence are to be carried out all in only one life time and not two. Though there are many assignments to do, though there are many things to fix, there are many things to admire, there are many lambs to feed, there are many things to build, there are many errors to correct, and there are various places to tour, yet, not in ten thousand years, but all within a space of a life time, just one life time, and it will be over. No wonder the great hymnist Horatius Bonar wrote thus in one of his hymns, titled Fading Away,

“Shall we be missed though by others succeeded?

Reaping the fields we in springtime have sown,

No for the sowers may pass from their labours

Only remembered by what they have done”

Indeed, is this not a question for all to answer? If after living ten thousand days on earth, shall we ever be missed at all by those who live after us? If yes, what have you started doing now so as to ascertain that you will surely be missed, the truth of the matter is that we can’t be missed if our life have not started counting now, if I may ask, do you hope your life had started counting? If yes, then how is it counting? What have you started doing?, dear reader, let me re-echo it one more time, you have got a life time to live and there are very man things to do in the only one life time, therefore, if sincerely you wish to be remembered after your stay on this terrace, then, I think you have better start living your life accurately, remember it is only in just one life time, and the fact is that, our life is timed, that is why it is called life time, and unfortunately,  time is not so friendly, no wonder Andrew Marvel lamented thus

“But at my back I always hear

Time’s winged chariot hurrying near

And yonder all before us lie

Deserts of vast eternity”

Oh! Very sad, yet, there are still so many that can be achieved, if you know your purpose, Once more, It is all in a lifetime.

© Sim Sam 2016