New generation lessons

Sho influencer

Many forget the Maker, striving to be like you. 
You have probably taken note of this and your pride is boosted. 
You are a treasure, adored and envied, use this power positively. 
I don't want to burden you, but it's your responsibility to direct your followers back to the Creator. 
Some will succeed and be like you, prolly supersede you. 
Since this makes you a leader. Think on the following lessons.

Unlearn jealousy

You are withholding praise and encouragement for those that have learnt from you. You are accustomed to being the receiver of compliments, applaud and hand shakes, but when it became your turn to do the same to others, you withheld your well wishes. You are comfortable with being at the top that you have forgotten to continue looking down to give a hand to those at the bottom. Unless your ill habit of jealousy, that's preventing you to congratulate and encourage others with a pure heart and genuine smile is unlearned, your influential leadership is fruitless. Don't feel sidelined when the spotlight moves, you still have your shine, learn from how the sun, stars and moon collaborate, all adorn the sky with beauty of light at appropriate time, without fighting for attention.

Recognize others

When encouraging others, stop always making yourself an example. It's great to mention others before yourself. You well know: `don't regard yourself than you ought to, for those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Share your experiences

As influential as you are, those who are inspired by your success long to hear of your learning curves. You identify with others when you share the pains you went through during your grinding. Your shared experiences shout to us 'you will overcome and pull through'. Don't despise your mistakes, without them you would not have stood up with a never say die attitude.

Pray more for others than yourself

Praying for others to me, is the highest point of self actualization. Its a mind blowing display of influence, though the said people won't know but God will hear your prayer and show his favour to them. Praying for others needs before yours is having an understanding of a selfless person, regarding another person's needs before yours. Prayer for others is the deepest kind of love. The most amazing mountain moving love is the thought of someone talking to God about me. 

Forgive

Don't be like me. I am not a positive influence, but as I trust you are, new generation, forgive. Give before you are asked, that is the amazing act of selflessness. Give without expecting anything in return. Give it forward, fore-give, forgive and shame the evil one because he wants you burdened by an unnecessary grudge and stupid hate. Withholding forgiveness is imprisonment, so break your self free.

Love

Love without reciprocation. It's fine, day dream unreasonable love and come back to reality to give insurmountable love. Love so much that nothing rejects you, even a remote with one battery. Give so much love that black coffee without sugar taste sweet. May your love be soo powerful that it does not spill water from a bucket with a hole. May your love be soo deep that you are able to call with a prepaid balance of R0. 00 on your cell. Love so much that your love is like solar power to the sick, cold homeless and desolate hungry. May your radical love stretch R20 buy as much as R200. May it revive the faith of the unbeliever and instill new faith on the faithless. Don't hold back your love due to past hurts. May your love make hearts as cold as Pharaohs tender and make those who feel undeserving or unlovable, like I, have hope again. May your pure love rub off on those you meet, even those you just merely go past. May your love sow peace, sow hope, sow righteousness and points us to Chirst for Salvation.

I believe positive attitude resembles love, cause I've never come across a person with negative attitude, truly loving anything. God displayed this bone shifting, nerve twitching and mind blowing kind of love. Be that new generation. 

Influencer always be supportive, stand with others, be calm and don't forget to work with your hands and mind your own affairs. 1 Thess 4:11.

No chance for one more time

Anyone who has experienced grieve or sorrow to a point of great mourning, will identify with this. Though I haven't experienced sorrow to that extreme, I identify with those who do and who have. I pray for great comfort for those who are currently going through grieve and those who have and are still paining over the past hurts of a loss of a loved one. I reflected after yesterday's sermon on Matthew 4:5, and I am grateful for those that I still have in my life and I also cry with those that are bereaved. Be blessed and comforted. 

Lament or reminisce, here goes:

We never got the last chance
To sing our song,
To take our last selfie,

To share our last meal,
To argue about directions while fighting about which radio station to listen to.

No last chance to look at each other and just smile,
To just sit without the need to start a conversation because we are not fazed by the awkwardness,
No last chance to be goofy, speak silly, act weird and explore our foolery.

We will never get our last chance to dress alike, 
Exchange books and chat crazy non stop,
No more chance to do our hand shake, to do our dance or to go on our strolls, 
No more to coffee dates, watching our movie and laughing at lame jokes,

No more holding hands, watching sunsets or making pictures of what the stars displayed,

No more rain days or picnic outings,

No one more chance for video calling, Snapchat, Skype and retweets.
We never got our last chance to rap to our song, while laughing like we are drunk and argue about the lyrics like we wrote the song.
Never will we have our chance to ride to where-ever, sing aloud and stop to dance to whatever.

All that to an end in a sudden blink.

If I somehow knew this day would come so soon, I would have paused to appreciate you better 😢

No memory to mind of the last time I saw you dance, while singing your songs and doing chores in your back-in-the-days hairstyles.
I don't recall the last time we got woken up on Sunday morning by your cooking before church.
No more chance to hear you praise our achievements and be proud of our success, 
We will definitely miss your untimely shouting over dirty dishes and being on phones with earphones and all.

We are never gonna have our one more time; 
To celebrate and dance, cry and laugh like there is no last time, but it arrived!

Just like that, the enemy has stolen again, I hope Heaven has gained an Angel.
It's hard to punctuate the end of US together with a stop, so I will use ellipsis...