The belly of hell
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Even when you remove the much hyped fire and brimstone, simply put, the word hell connotes a place or situation that you would
not wish on your worst enemy. Yet, that is where we take ourselves most of the time when we fail to heed our call early in life. A
place of frustration; a place of robotic activity; a place where you do things for the sake of being active and not because you are
getting any joy out of it; a place that allows you to grudge on with life; a place that causes you to wonder when close of business
will come or why the night is so short. Hell is a place of dissatisfaction, devoid of purpose – a place that sucks the life out of you.
Success as a sweeper when you were meant to be a president is as much a failure as success in being a Fortune 500 CEO when you
should have been a stay at home mum for two children. There are always regrets and moments of wishing you could turn back the
clock and do it differently. Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and asked yourself, “What is this life I am living?”
Somewhere deep down there is something that says you are not in your line of purpose and calling.
It is important to get away from the belly of hell as fast as possible. The only way to do that is to first of all reconcile yourself to the
fact that you are a creation of God Almighty. You also have to accept it in your heart, mind and soul that you are not in this world
by fluke or by some cosmic accident. You were designed to come into this world when you did and that design included plans of
what you were to accomplish. No one else in this world has the capacity and abilities you have to accomplish that which you were
designed to accomplish. This reconciliation must cause a turnaround in your life that brings you to appoint where you talk to God
as your Father asking Him to make you His child again. The reconciliation means accepting that Christ is the Son of God, He died
for you to be reconciled to the Father and accepting for Him to be Lord of your life. This foundational process is the one that will
propel your journey out of hell. The Chinese saying – a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – is true. The belly of
hell doesn’t need you as a resident with ownership or leasing rights. You are a candidate for better locations in life.
Thou heardest my voice
From the start, let me just assure you, it does not matter where you are – physically or spiritually. If you cry out to God, He will
hear you. Whether in the darkest pit like Joseph or on the mountain like Elijah, or Jonah in the belly of a fish, swallowed alive. His
ear is always open to you. If the words of a fellow human being are not too believable, look what David, the man after God’s own
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