Kim Olalekan's Blog

I write and talk about Gospel and Technology

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How I turned frustration into fascination

If you are expecting some magical truth or get rich quick, grass to grace story, please don't bother to read this. I am writing this to those who spent their lives trying to do the right thing, those who stood fast in their struggle for righteousness. 

I have seen people repeatedly doing the same thing in different ways, claiming they have better solutions. It all ends up in the old story. Then you hear something like it’s just trials and errors, we don't really know what may work. I am like, you claimed you have a solution, but now what???

I was recently frustrated with some apps; the main reason (disruptive ads display). Facebook offers free services and serves different ads, I don't even identify some ads until I clicked them cos they are so friendly I think they are real contents. I have the same experience with inspiration quotes app, guess what my action is, uninstall. I don't have issue with ads, but please don't disrupt the value I hope to get by downloading the app. I respect, creativity and believe inventor should be rewarded handsomely. You don't deserve any reward if the value you created the app around is not being served properly to those who download it.

This separates what the greats from the wannabes. The greats go to extreme length to create something cool that touch millions of people. The wannabes just want to do something mediocre and expect to get paid handsomely.

You don't have to do big things. Just solve one problem that matters to you, then you can share it with people that want the solution. Since I am frustrated with disruptive ads, I just created an app that aggregate quotes. I called it GlowQuote.  If you don't like something, change it ~ Jim Rohn.

Click here to download it.

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Faith is senseless

Faith is senseless. Faith is not normal. Faith is believing thing or things that did not make sense, but with your belief you make sense out of it. One thing is to believe, the other is to exercise belief. This is where most people have challenges. Long ago, I had trouble expressing my ideas and belief. I thought people will laugh at me. Also, I had trouble expressing the truth about me. I thought people will belittle me. All these are faithless and coward. I got scared of so many things. I thought this would happen, that will happen. 99% of these worries and fear never happened. Guess what I find out; I am making too much sense. I work with my sense not my heart.

When I gave my life to Christ, I find out; it is more senseless. Giving up everything and letting Jesus be my Saviour and Holy spirit be my guide. This is absolutely senseless, but it is spiritual. This does not mean Christians are fools. It means Jesus has been made to Christians a wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30).

Why would Christians do that? Because the spirit of wisdom and understanding abide in Him (Jesus) (Isaiah 11:2).

Conclusion

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is a life of God in men. Jesus is the word of God made flesh and He is wisdom to all believers.

Note

Faith is not the absence of challenges (temptation, fear, doubt). It is using the word of God to be your wisdom. This does not mean you won't read anything except the word of God. It means allowing the word of God to have dominion over everything you know. And this is what Christianity is all about. This is wisdom to those who are spiritual.

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Certainty vs Possibility : A straight path and new path

God says if you believe you will receive. The human says seeing is believing. Certainty is what human mostly plays. You have heard people say something like, Are you sure about this? You need to be sure of this. I understand this is contextual. Words doesn't just flow. It comes with attitude and emotions. Attitude is all that matters. What's the certainty that we will live to the next day. We don't know. Yet we have activities piled up for tomorrow like "have a breakfast ", "Meet up with John". We know it is possible to live to the next day.

Certainty I need to be sure I can't take more risks I am good with this, no need to change Possibility I am hoping it will work. I will take the risk, what's the reward? We will make little changes over the time. If you will believe that there is something greater and better than what you have, if you can be hopeful and keep looking for something possible, something better than what you have or what you have already done, you will do great and unimaginable things. There's no limit to what you can do. Remember, you are a child of God. Conclusion

Certainty is good, possibility is better. As Les Brown said "Do not go where the path lead. Go where there is no path and leave a trail".