Note on Sunday; (Blessing in disguise)

(A lengthy one from me to you this Sunday)

Blessing in disguise?  Used to describe seeming ills or unfortunate scenarios, that later results in something good happening, or a blessing later.

I’d  been on this planet some decades enough to learn from first hand instances of blessing in disguise. Like when people get fired, later became successful entrepreneurs of Companies that beats  that of their erstwhile employers. If they weren’t laid off might have retired a mere employee, maybe not too broke, but not wealthy either.

 If  no other instance but Oprah Winfrey. She was fired from her first job as an Anchor, snapped at by the Producer that she was;

 “Unfit for Television News”.

Here’s  a woman whose present Net Worth is over Two Billion Dollars, also the owner of probably the biggest talk show in the World.

I’d also heard of tenants supposedly ejected, life being a funny twist and they became owners to apartments rented by their once upon a time landlord.

The Founder of Ijamido Childrens’ Home in Ota, Ogun State-Nigeria never had biological kids. Not bothered about her state of being childless, she cared for over Six Hundred Motherless Kids in her lifetime. And despite the fact that a lot of women who had biological children of their own had been clearly forgotten with time, even by their own lineage, Mama Willoughby’s  name and efforts remained on the lips of everyone as the founder of the only Orphanage in this part of the world, that never gave out Children for adoption. (They are trained into adulthood to become functioning members of the society instead)

          

  

Antagonists  and adversaries alike are another example of god-sent blessings in disguise.

            Considering biblical examples:

Joseph

His destiny was for him to be in prison where he would meet the King’s Baker, who in turn would introduce him to Pharaoh-his Destiny helper.

This was how he journeyed:

What Joseph was to become was revealed to him via a dream in Gen 37;5-7. He was meant to tell his brother in verse 8 who in turn had to despise him so that they could chase him off his comfort zone (his father’s house), by selling him closer to the town where his destiny would be fulfilled. (Verse 18-28) The act of lusting after Joseph by Potiphar’s wife was in continuation of God’s plan. If he had committed that sexual sin, he might have stayed longer in that household as he would be comfortable in the arms of his boss’s wife. Chances are that he might not get to the promised land, he could even be caught in the act and subsequently killed. Either way, sin takes us farther away from God’s plan.

The king’s butler and Baker had to err for his sake to meet him up in prison. The duo dreamt, so that his talent as a dream interpreter would come to fore too. Gen 40;1-23.

And finally, Pharaoh’s dream brought him to where he rightly belonged. 

Joseph’s brothers,

Potiphar’s wife,

 the king’s butler

and baker

Were all blessings in disguise, so are foes and adversaries in our lives today.

            Jesus

Greed was the reason why Judas betrayed Jesus and thereafter revealed him to his enemies. An action he regretted evidently from the suicide.

But hey!

The deed had been done. His action towards Jesus was needed to fulfill the mission of the fact that Christ has to be caught, crucified on the cross so that he could die for our sins.

And in present day experiences;

          

  I have folks missed death via a plane crash, just because they missed their flight.

And a friend was once turned down at a job interview that would have paid him less than five hundred dollars, monthly. Totally dejected, same day he got the boots at the interview sessions he simply loosened his tie to branch by a bar to watch his favorite Football Team. His dexterity at analyzing football matches caught the attention of a man seated nearby. They discussed mostly about football since they seemed to have a liking for the same club, and about a few other issues too, like the fact that he was unable to secure a supposedly good job earlier that day.

His new friend thereafter invited him to his office next day for ‘further friendly chat’, if only he would come along with his resume. It happened he had been chatting with the Head of Human Resources of a blue chip company that offered him a job of two thousand dollars monthly. Blessing in disguise,

Another life experience that people do not always see as a blessing in disguise is Relationship issues. Ladies especially take to heart way too much when they get dumped. Some too emotional females sometimes attempts suicide and I see that as laughable. Some men are meant to introduce you to what would attract you to your God sent partners. So no need brooding over a fore-runner.

Relationship failures should be an avenue for us to chose better partners than those that left us/or that we left behind. They should be a benchmark for us never to consider settling for lesser options.

So as you journey into a new week, if there’s any ill life has supposedly thrown, leverage on it as the tool to get to the promised land.

I pray the Lord turns every of our life disappointment to another great story of blessings in disguise in Jesus name.

Happy Sunday,

Happy Easter,

 Christ  died for our sins so that we may be saved.



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