HIMPower Magazine HimPower September 2017 | Page 28

PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
What Are Your
Options? PART 1
by Eturuvie Erebor
C
onsider the situation you are
currently in for a moment; what
are your options to get out of it?
Understand that no matter what
life throws your way, you will never be left
without options to get out. Most times, the
reason people remain in unpleasant situ-
ations is not because there are no options
to get out or they don’t know what the
options are but, because they are afraid to
take the options available to them. They ask
themselves the question, “what if it doesn’t
work?” But what if it does work? Life is a
risk, living is a risk, and every person alive
at this moment is at the risk of dying some-
day.
Motivational speaker, Les Brown said,
“You are not going to get out of life, alive.”
That is so true; the only way out of life is
death. Therefore, no matter what you do or
do not do, your fear of death will one day
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come on you. This is not meant to scare you
but to make you see the futility in remaining
in that situation when you know what
options are available for your escape. Yes,
you are afraid, but do it in spite of the fear.
I have said before that if you dare to jump
you will discover you have been equipped
with wings to fly. I have discovered this to
be true in my life.
A Bible story clearly illustrates the
point I am trying to make here, so I will
share it. The story is about four lepers who
sat at the gate of Samaria waiting to die
from hunger. These men were starving as
there was a famine in the land of Samaria.
I am not sure for how long they had been
in that condition and did nothing about it,
but suddenly they came to themselves and
said one to another, “Why sit we here until we
die? If we say, we will enter into the city, then
the famine is in the city, and we shall die there;