MENTAL LAMENESS

INSPIRATION
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Ola Aina
Thursday 26th August, 2021

MENTAL LAMENESS

Text: “And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty eight years..Sir, I have no man.” John 5:5

This man had been in this lame state for so long. He had waited all his life for someone to help him out. His lameness was not just a physical one but also a mental one. For thirty eight long years he did not think of any other alternative other than someone coming along to assist him. He was both in a physical and a mental wheelchair. He was right before Jesus and still making that excuse.

Excuses keeps people mentally lame. There is always a way out in life if we are not confined to a particular mindset about an issue of our lives.
We must realise that while we are making the excuses life is passing us by. Just imagine sitting down in the same spot for thirty eight years with the same excuses. Excuses may be genuine but we must not allow whatever it is to keep us in one spot for years. The world is moving as you are making the excuses.

Someone is saying “there are no responsible men again to marry” and ladies are getting married every weekend. Someone is saying there is no job in the country while others are changing jobs daily.
Excuses are actually a product of a limited capacity to think; this is what makes it a mental lameness. Each one of us as believers has the unsearchable wisdom of God at work in our lives. In the midst of the limitations of life we can locate our way in God and see clearly into possibilities that exist around our lives.

We must deliberately challenge common excuses around us; don’t just accept what is popular without questioning it with the knowledge of God. Excuses will excuse you from the possibilities of life. A wise man said “Excuses are the tools that men with no purpose in view use in building for themselves a great monument of nothing.” Excuses will keep you in one spot for too long. Get rid of that excuse in your mouth. Even when there is no one to help, God is there to help.

CONFESSION:
The wisdom of God is at work in my heart to see a way out in every situation of life. I’m not confined.

LEARN MORE: 1 Cor 2:16; 10:13