Follow the Process

 I have always maintained that we live in a "fast n furious" generation where patience is becoming less and less of a virtue.

Today you see a 20-year-old guy who thinks not having a Rolls Royce at that age is a failure. 

Young adults now long for quick fixes to bypass what they see as challenges. They are willing to fight tooth and nail to get money, cars, fame, etc.

Just yesterday, we were greeted by the news of a 21-year-old 300 level UNILAG student who killed a CEO just because of what? Over money? A yearning to belong? She even went ahead after killing him to withdraw cash using the victim's ATM card. 

For goodness sake, what does a 21-year-old lady want with a sugar daddy? Who was she trying to impress? Was she in competition with anybody? More so that she has been abusing drugs at this tender age. A beautiful lady as such.

One of the virtues God has blessed me with is contentment. Bible says it is a great gain when mixed with godliness. You know, when people pray that God should bless them, all they mean is money, cars, and other material things. No!  Blessing is far more than that. You don't know what you have if God has blessed you with good and godly characters. Or have you forgotten Proverbs 22:1, "A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold"

Luke 12:15 buttresses it, saying, "Keep yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses" You are more than material possessions. Don't lose your head over them. That is why I do not feel any pressure to see others succeed. 

I remember I didn't use an Android phone throughout my undergraduate days. The best I could afford was the berry-button Asha 2010 Nokia phone. Even though I was abashed by my friends for not having an Android phone, it never crossed my mind to steal or engage in illicit acts to get one. And you know what, that didn't stop me from graduating top of my class. The deceit is, most times, we think we are limited by what we don't have, so we must do every possible thing to get it. That is not true. We are not limited by what we don't have but limited by what we have that we don't know how to use. 

So I think we are losing it as a society. It's high time society discouraged this far-reaching scourge of having money or nothing else. Why must we shower encomium on someone who bought a house out of the blue without a demonstrable source of income?

People should know that not having a million naira in your account in your 20s is not a curse.

You are not under an enchantment because you are not listed in Forbes 30under30. 

It is not a crime if you have not discovered yourself in your mid-twenties. 

That you don't even own a company at 25 or have the title CEO shouldn't make you go overboard because of that. 

The heights that great men are today were not achieved by sudden flight. They followed the process. As Bishop D. Oyedepo said, life is in stages, men are in sizes,

That is why the Scriptures exhort us to be long-suffering. To follow and endure the process. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Proverbs 14:29 caps it by saying, "The long-suffering man abounds in understanding".

If you give up the process, you also give up the result. In the process is our making. 

Don't let people push you to take shortcuts. That could be a way that may seem right to you now, but the end is destruction. 

Success without the process and integrity is like an unseasoned dish. It will satisfy your hunger but won't taste good.

Learn to follow the process

God makes everything beautiful in its time.