PICKING YOUR PAIR

I was on Snapchat yesterday and I saw this video of a Siamese twins. If you don’t know what Siamese twin is, they are identical twins who were joined in the uterus, in this case, they are born still connected. Once they are joined, they have to do everything together. They walk in the same direction, sit at the same time, lay down at the same time, they do everything together. Well, I was thinking, imagine the other half had to do something and the other didn’t want to do that thing, how stressful will that be? We all know that we get irritated when we do things we don’t want to do but we have to do it due to the circumstances or something. So imagine these twins. They always have to agree with everything they do. I came across Amos 3:3 today and I just remembered the Siamese twins straight away. The verse says “Can two people walk together without agreeing on the direction?” Take that verse in. It is asking you, can you walk with your friend, partner, God, without agreeing on the direction.

AGREEING WITH GOD

Let’s say you are going to a party with your friend and you both meet at the train station and decide to go together. If one of you said: “alright, you take the train from here and I will take the bus from here and we’ll meet at the party”, will that make sense? Will it not be best if you went together in the or both of you went to the party without meeting each other in the first place? Do you get what I mean? This is how we should look at our life with God and our relationships with others. We start things by saying “God I trust you and I’m with you on this one” but in the middle we say, “Well God, it was a good run, I’ll take it from here”. We are all human (my favourite phrase) and we tend to do these things but we need to put a stop to that. We need to come into an agreement in our ways with God. You cannot say God help me when you know you won’t take the help. God cannot tell you to be a doctor today and you’ll say “Yes God you have a good point but I just think I should be a lawyer so I am going to do law. But God, you know what you can do for me, help me study law and help me love this degree”. Agree with the direction God has set for you because he knows best and he knows it all. He won’t do anything that will hurt you.

CHOOSING YOUR FRIENDS

Today’s blog is also about picking the right friends. When you choose a friend, your aim is to grow with them and help each other. How can you have a friend when both of you have different directions you want to take? You want to be successful and but you have chosen a friend that just thinks success means nothing. You will be dragged down somehow or you will miss a turning at one point. Both of you need to choose and agree with which directions you both need to take together. You need to find someone that will motivate you to do good. Actually, both of you need to motivate each other. If two horses are connected to a carriage and they both choose to go different ways, that’ll be a disaster. Pick wisely.

CHOOSING YOUR LIFE PARTNERS

My twin and my cousin will say I am very inexperienced in this aspect but this isn’t rocket science. You need to pick a husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend that agrees with your morals and you agree with theirs. Can you seriously walk together without agreeing on the direction? If your man or your woman tells you let’s go here and you say but I want to go there, you shouldn’t just agree with it because you just want one person to be happy. These things causes aggravations. Why? Because once again, imagine being somewhere your heart isn’t. You need to learn to agree on something or else you won’t completely be happy. Do not settle for something just to make the person happy, instead agree on something that makes both of you happy.

GENERAL STATEMENT

You and your pair, being a friendship or a relationship should help and build each other up. Use your skills together. Encourage and help each other. Remember in PE when there were two groups and the team leaders had to pick their team members, that is when you know people cannot be trusted. Your own friend will look at you and point to someone else because they know that if they add the other person to their team, there is a higher chance of them winning. Personally, I will choose according to who is going to be silly with me. But the others that are competitive, I’m sorry this isn’t the time to play for them. They have only one agenda and that is to win. Your agenda should be to win in life, to win in your relationship, to win in Christ. Walk in the same direction. Two heads are better than one so make sure you choose a better head. Pick the right pair. God bless you.

Prayer: God, give us strength and power when we are choosing the people we spend our time with. Help us in agreeing on things that will be beneficial to us and the people around us. We thank you Lord. In Jesus name I pray, amen.