“Tell those who shut the door in our faces we are coming to buy the building.” 

I saw this quote some time ago, and the rush of energy I felt! People have looked down on us and treated us like garbage so many times. They have rejected and bullied us. And every time I went through something like that, I felt this strong desire deep down to be great. To amount to something so that all these people will see me and regret what they did. They would see me and be guilt-ridden, while I smile at them and say, “You meant it for evil but God meant it for good.” Deep down in my heart however, I would relish the mental turmoil the person was going through. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Every time you see a picture of that girl who bounced you and is taking CIAO snaps in a nice car, you know how you are eager to just make it so you can splash water on her on a rainy day in your G-wagon. 

A lot of our movies and songs, eve gospel ones, reinforce this system of motivation. You remember all those Nigerian movies where the maltreated step child grew to become a doctor and had to treat the parents who maltreated her? The climax was when the parents apologized on their death beds. You can easily call to mind a lot of songs that talk about how God will bless us so that our enemies will see and be ashamed. That is the goal, the grand ending after which we can say, “To God be the Glory”; that “enemies” will see our end and be ashamed.  

What a wasteful life to live! 

If our whole life is to just prove a point, what’s the point?  

God has been showing me in recent times, how fleshly and carnal (repetition for emphasis) this system of motivation is. If anyone had to prove a point, it should have been Jesus. When they captured Him, they closed His eyes and hit Him repeatedly, asking him to prophesy who hit Him. As they taunted him while he hung on the cross, He could have jumped off the cross and finished them in 3 kung fu moves, then gone back to die. But see, this kind of motivation will only derail you from the pure plans God has for you. It will make you ungrateful for all that God has done just because it hasn’t reached the point where it’s making the enemies chew their nails. And it will make you seek for vain glory that comes from man, rather than live a life that gives all glory to God. Jesus wasn’t going to come all this way, only to miss the mark by proving a point. 

Friends, let us not be mistaken. The climax was, is, and always shall be this; to hear Him say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”. That one day, we will hear these blessed words. Let this be our driving force, people.  

Why buy that building, when in your father’s house, there are many mansions? Selah