Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Some people make the news while some others report the
news. Yet there are many people who neither make the news nor report the news.
They are usually content to stay in the sidelines, just watching the world go
by, never commenting, never making suggestions or even criticizing. Such people
are actually spectators in the race of life including the races they are
supposed to run in life but which they either consciously or unconsciously
refuse to run; choosing to be impassive spectators. Beloved, you cannot afford
to be a spectator in your race. If you watch others and do not run your race,
how on earth do you get to destination, especially if your destination is the
top?
David for instance was ordained by God to become King
in Israel even when King Saul was still on the throne and was grooming his son
Jonathan to inherit the throne. Yet, David ran his race. He did not watch as an
impassive spectator. He brought Goliath down and ended the intimation and oppression
of Israel by the Philistines through Goliath’s taunts and boasts. That earned
him respect and great admiration by the people of Israel. Twice, David was
opportune to hack down King Saul to smithereens yet David chose to do that which
was honorable. He did not lay his hands on the Lord’s anointed. But when the Amalekites
attempted to bring sorrow to David and his men after they burned down Ziklag
and took the women and children captive, David ran an extremely competitive
race. Tired, weary and to some extent uncertain of what lay ahead, David
enquired of the Lord what next steps to take. Guided by the Lord, David outran
the Amalekites and recovered all that they had attempted to steal from him.
Severally, the enemy attempts to steal and could
actually succeed if you act as an impassive spectator in the race of life. But
if you get on your knees and respond to the blast of the gun to begin the race,
you definitely can by the Spirit of God outrun the enemy no matter how far he
has gone. So shall they fear the name of
the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the
enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a
standard against him. Isaiah Chapter 59 verse 19.
Therefore, Stop looking at people running their own
race (1st Corinthians Chapter 9 verses 24 to 27, 2nd
Timothy Chapter 4 verses 6 to 8, Philemon Chapter 1 verse 6) because you will
succeed just as David succeeded.
And David enquired
at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them?
And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without
fail recover [all]. So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were] with
him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. But
David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which
were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. And they found an
Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did
eat; and they made him drink water; And they gave him a piece of a cake of
figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again
to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk [any] water, three days and three
nights. And David said unto him, To whom [belongest] thou? and whence [art]
thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my
master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. We made an invasion
[upon] the south of the Cherethites, and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to
Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. And David
said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto
me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my
master, and I will bring thee down to this company. And when he had brought him
down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and
drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out
of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. And David smote
them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped
not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and
fled. And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David
rescued his two wives. And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor
great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had
taken to them: David recovered all. And David took all the flocks and the
herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is]
David's spoil. 1st Samuel Chapter 30 verses 8 to 20.
The Ronaldos, Messis, Lukakus, Bales, Hamiltons,
Bolts, etc earn money while so many other people watch them and cheer them on.
Media organizations vie for viewing rights so that they can also get a piece of
the action, which is financial gains. Bookmakers also get a piece of the
action? But what do you gain monetarily as a spectator? Should you really be a
spectator and not the actor on stage? Did God not give you all it takes to be
on the stage? Give up watching others, act and make the news and make
sustainable wealth. See you at wealth city, shalom.
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