Day 320 of wisdom
“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.”
Saint Augustine
Without God we are nothing, and we can do nothing. He created us in His own image to show forth His glory on the surface of the earth. He bestowed upon us great power, wisdom, knowledge, and ability, not so we can do without Him, but so we can through His wonderful gifts to us do great things. He created us not to control us, but that we might through our living and gifts create for others and ourselves what we can to make the world a more beautiful place to live, not for lack of beauty but that we ourselves might be creators just as He is (His image).
Though endowed with great powers to do whatsoever we wish to do, we are limited only to things He gave us powers over. There are times we must Trust Him to give us what we need to carry on in our journey. We must exhibit our faith in Him to supply us with some things or enable us to do the things we hope to do, but we must do, we must engage ourselves in doing our own part towards achieving what we hope to achieve. On the high sea of life, when He provides the wind, we must raise the sail in the direction we hope to head towards.
In everything we do, there is a place of divine intervention and there is a place for personal work. We must as a matter of fact put in as much work into our endeavours in life as we put in so much faith. Faith is the enabler of things that are not yet seen, but work is the realiser of things we hope for, so our faith must be as strong as the work we put into everything we do. As the Apostle James said in James 2:18, "Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works" (KJV). Faith and work go and in hand.
Whatever we have been empowered to do; whatever is within our reach to change, to alter, to modify, to make better, we must do without delay or expectation of assistance from anywhere else. God gives us rain, we determine what we do with the rain; He gives us sunlight, we determine how we want it to affect us; Our brains, heart and mind are ours to use in ways that will bring us closer to our desired life. "God provides, the wind, Man must raise the sail."
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John Kamikun
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