WHY WE ARE NOT EXPERIENCING ANY PROGRESS IN LIFE?

Why You are not Experiencing Any Progress in Life

When there is no success, there can’t be any progress

If you are evaluating your achievement and you feel you are not making any progress in life this is for you.

Stagnation is a word we all loathe but I have seen it play itself out in many ways, in our lives. But, why do we honestly stay on the same spot year in year out? There is a soul searching post; it will jolt you out of slumber but if you are happy with your current situation on life, please stop reading this article NOW!

REASONS WHY WE ARE NOT EXPERIENCING ANY PROGRESS IN LIFE ARE: 

Reason Number 1: You probably don’t know you’re unlimited

I often get amazed when Christians believe they are limited from achieving certain things. I want to say it loud and clear, there’s NO LIMITATION ANYWHERE! The only limitations that exist were created by you. I once wrote in this post that life is supposed to be lived to the fullest, so, think out the box, just think outside the box but a colleague took it a step further. He said there is no box, just think and I felt what a way to convey the message of out unlimited nature! In all truth, we were unlimited before sin came but Christ paid the supreme sacrifice to restore us to our original position. But the Big question is; are we taking up the offer of Christ to regain our unlimited nature? If you have taken up the offer, I say congratulations; if you are yet to do so, I urge you to take that step of faith now! Only that can you truly be unlimited, you will know by the way. 

Reason Number 2: You are not questioning the status quo

You can never experience progress in life if you often settle for the status quo. To move forward in life, you have to question the status quo. You have to go against the norms and what everybody accepts as normal. You are definitely going to face persecution for doing this but take solace in the fact that as you read this, possibility thinkers around the world are exploring new ways of  managing (and even curing) HIV, developing new energy sources and generally improving the quantity of life. They are challenging the status quo against all odds and you should too.

Reason Number 3: You are not increasing capacity

How many books have you read in the past seven months? What trainings have you attended to increase your knowledge and capacity? One thing is, your life would never go beyond your capacity; you therefore have to increase your capacity to Love all and sundry (regardless of their feeling toward you); you have to increase your capacity on your job (learn new, faster and efficient ways of doing things); you also have to increase your capacity in marriage. You cannot face the challenges of a 10 – year-old marriage with the capacity of a newly-wed. As you grow, your capacity has to grow.

Reason Number 4: You don’t have the instinct to increase

I must confess that I got this point from Bishop T. D. Jakes’ message titled Instinct to Increase and in it; he talk about the fact that some people live on based on instructions while others live based on their instincts. In his words, “smart people live based on instructions but great people live based on their instincts.”

What then is Instinct?

Instinct makes you know what to do at the right time, with the right people and at the right place.

Instinct is what makes a one year old child stretch his legs to learn how to walk; nobody needs to tell him that.

In the parable of 10 talents, the Master of the House gave each of the three servants talents (He gave the first talents; he gave the second two talents and gave the third one talent). He proceeded on a journey afterwards. He did not instruct them to increase or double their talents but two of the servants followed their instincts to double their gifting. The last servant buried his own talent but the Master was furious with him (in other words, he didn’t have the instinct to increase is talent).

You find a similar situation where Jesus healed the 10 lepers and asked them to go and show themselves to the High Priest. Only one of the lepers followed his instinct to show his appreciation to Jesus (the other nine simply followed the instructions of Jesus). But Jesus lamented about this when he asked the only leper who came; “where are the other nine?” You are probably going to ask why Jesus wants to see them when he didn’t expressly say so (welcome to the world of instincts, a land where nobody tells you what to do, you just feel like it and do it). These two stories show that people become great only by listening, trusting and acting on their instincts.

Reason Number 5: You are babysitting your gifts

Anything you babysit in your life will not grow. In the parable of 10 talents, we saw the servant who hid the talent babysat it and gained nothing back. He was not willing to take any risk with the talent; he was just okay with it. As you read this, begin to ponder, begin to ask yourself: what talents am I babysitting in my life? Am I babysitting my business? Am I babysitting my marriage? If you babysit a creche, there is no way it would grow to become a Nursery and primary school. So, stop babysitting your ideas and talents; give them wings to fly.

Reason Number 6: You are not taking advantage of opportunities in your life

If you read the parable of talents to the end, you will recall how the master reacted when the third servant brought his talent without an increase. He was practically livid.

That is how God react when we encounter opportunities but refuse to take advantage of them either because of fear or lack of courage. But the truth is, people who take advantage of opportunities also feel the fear but do it anyway. Not taking advantage of opportunities also feel fear but do it anyway. Not taking advantage of opportunities could also stem from the fact that they are disguised as challenges.

They demand a lot from us and because we cannot even perceive them as opportunities, they tend to slip through our fingers.

It’s amazing how our blessings and promotion are wrapped around adversity. When you look at David’s life, you realize that all his life, he had face adversity to progress to a new level. He had to endure the challenges of working for King Saul in order to become the next king of Israel. For every new level, don’t forget there is a new Devil to content with. So don’t stop running away from challenges, it could be the vehicle God wants to use to life you up.      

Summary and Action Take-Away

If you want progress in Life, you know just what to do now. Don’t just read this post, come up with action points and by all means, take action. If you do this, progress awaits you on the other side.