BLOODY LIFE

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CULMINATION:
              BLOODY LIFE

Matthew 16:21

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
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       There is a way we seem to forget some rule. We tend to forget the trend of life . We tend to forget the way it feels to ride on a road to success. We tend to forget the pain that lies on a road to higher heights. 
Jesus being the son of God would make us think that he wouldn't have to be persecuted and wouldn't have had to suffer in that way.

Even when he could call angels to strike the opponents, he didn't do so. He knew the rule clearly. He knew the kind of life he was supposed to live.
He told these ways of the road to the disciples that he would suffer to death and on the third day, he would rise again. But the disciples were like what we are today. They forgot quickly the ways of the road to success and couldn't think of Jesus dieing. 
The only way Jesus would gain the glories and seat at the right hand of God was to suffer. It was to endure a bloody life.

There is no way you will ever dream of success and still maintain a smooth road. There is no success that comes without a cost. There is no good life that comes without the toil and Labour. And because you move from peak to peak on your journey to better levels, you will get enemies. There is no successful journey that doesn't have enemies. 
A life of an ambitious soul is a life that is full of sacrifice and persecution. Even the richest man who helped revolutionise electric vehicles is still persecuted. He still gets backlashes regarding his products and his operation. 

Some people dream of being great leaders. But at such heights, you will have to get all sorts of resistance and will have to meet all sorts of people. This has made me think that the real thing we need to work on is ourselves and how we respond to all that is set to come on our road to Calvary. The real business you have is shaping yourself into a an element that is resilient and able to handle forces of pressure at a higher level.
    
                        GOD BLESS YOU

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