Keep growing

One of the things I hated as a child was wearing oversized shoes and clothes. I just didn’t like the way the stuffed tissue papers hurt my feet. I told myself that I will not make my children wear oversized stuff just because they were kids.

I started off that way, but after buying two to three new shoes for my son in just one term, I advised myself – oversized shoes it is! I try to make it bearable for him with comfy shoe pads.

It’s easier to appreciate growth in children because it’s typically physical. I was still hopeful that I would grow taller when I was 18 but after I turned 21, I knew such wishful thinking was not good for my mental health, but thank God we don’t stop growing even after reaching the peak of our physical maturity.

We all grow and it’s only fair to give ourselves the allowance we need while the growth happens. Mount Everest in all its magnificence can’t boast of the innate capacity in a newborn baby to grow.

I recently drank in the rich splendor of the wave of the ocean, but in all its glory, a day-old baby has an innate capacity to grow that the ocean may not be able to boast of – all things being equal.

In 2021, I dropped a couple of balls that I began to juggle at the start of the year. I know that I need a steady hand to keep the balls up – increased capacity!

If I increase my spiritual capacity through the intake of God’s word, deeper intimacy with the Father, my faith will grow stronger. I can be weaned of milk and begin to take solid food and even graduate to taking strong meats – and who knows, maybe I can begin to crack some bones! My feet would be toughened like a hind and I will be able to leap over walls and God’s promises will be be within grasp.

If I increase my mental capacity by skilling up and enriching my experiences, when opportunities open, the offers will be easy to take.

If I increase my financial capacity, I will be able to sustain other streams of income and put an idea to work.

If I grow in intimacy with my dude, our wine will get fresher and sweeter…

I read this verse of the bible a few days ago and it spoke to me afresh.

Isaiah 54:2 (The Passion Translation)

2 “Increase is coming, so enlarge your tent

    and add extensions to your dwelling.[a]

    Hold nothing back! Make the tent ropes longer and the pegs stronger.[b]

Such powerful scripture!

I love what my dad, Rev. Olusola Areogun always say, “first, get it right, and then get better at it”

So, it makes sense to get our seed right, identify the right soil, take root downwards, keep our plant watered, sprinkle the soil of our life with manure here and there and bask in the growth as it happens.

We are work in progress! You hold the bar of your growth. You can increase it as you like, keep it leveled if needed or even lower the bar to allow you master some levels you might have missed in haste!  

We are not in a race competing against each other, so set the bar at your pace but keep growing because you can no matter how old you are!

Happy new year!