Matthew 16: 25.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it.
The price for soul revolution has not changed; it is still what it has always been; you either choose it or the path of less resistance. Those who choose the path of less resistance, live only to put food on their tables, own a house, cars, money in the bank and maybe a successful career or business, and that ends their quest and pursuit in life. When talking about impacting and changing a generation positively, count them out. On the contrary, those who choose soul revolution, live to light their generation by their life and impact, and they graciously accept the challenges that go with it.
Great souls in history and contemporary times which changed the world and impacted their generation, demonstrated by their life that achieving comfort and convenience is not all about life! We can embrace the call to live or die for noble causes than merely settling for our interest. The gospel and the Bible we take for granted today were given to us by a generation that didn't know comfort and convenience because they chose to fulfil their purpose over self-aggrandizement. To them, the kingdom of God was not about "meat and drink." If you gave that generation the internet, satellite television, and the many other things we have today, they would have changed the world of their time. Our greatest handicap today is our lack of passion for our purpose and obsession for the goddess of comfort and convenience. We need soul revolution!
What Is Soul Revolution?
It is the transformation that takes place within an individual's soul, which inspires the individual to choose a path of life that may lead to sufferings, refusing alternatives for comfort and convenience for a cause greater than the individual personal gains. Christ walked that path, and the Apostles and Prophets in the Bible did the same, as well as countless other people in history and contemporary times.
If you are for soul revolution, you can't live like everyone around you. You can't go where everyone goes to, or sleep and wake like everyone does, or eat and drink like everyone. If you want to be used of God to inform, transform, and inspire your generation in a significant way, it will cost you everything and still demands more. However, it is the most glorious way to live on earth.
The teachers of the law in the days of Christ and the Apostles had distinguished ecclesiastical careers, but who is talking about them today? Who is reading their books or taking their cues from them? The answer is simple, none! Did they take the money they made to the world beyond? Did they take all the ecclesiastical titles they heap on themselves along when they exited the earth? Naked we came and naked shall we leave. Ecclesiastes 5, verse 15. Job 1, verse 21.
It is nice to have a good career and the good things of life, but life is more than that, and the earlier we learn that, the better. It is noble to live a life that lives a legacy worth remembering in time and eternity.
Some of the great lives we celebrate today died to live the life they lived and the impact they made in their time. I "died" years ago, and the life I am living now is centred on one thing, birthing the revolution I was sent on earth to inspire. Looking at the priorities of today's generation, one can't help but weep. Sadly, the younger generation today are looking for shortcuts, and they treat the truth with contempt. But there is an emerging generation the Lord is rasing that will leave their footprints on the sand of times.
If you desire to be a part of the generation we are talking about, you will need thorough mentorship to learn the dynamics of living a life that counts both in time and eternity. You need to learn in the School of the Word and the Spirit and under those carrying the "revolutionary" fire for this era.
Let me repeat! "The price for soul revolution has not changed; it is still as it has always been." If you are merely looking for a comfortable life and nothing more, you may go down in history as any ordinary human being. If you want to fulfil the purpose for which you came into this world, you have to live for more than what ordinary individuals have settled for. May God open our eyes!
Life is lived once, and if you waste yours, you can't have it back. It is time to wake up and live for higher goals. Live to fulfil your divine purpose, and all other things will shape up progressively.
Comments
Dear Dr Etta,
Thank you for that inspiring article. I need to mentored for Soul revolution. God bless you.
Onesmas Riungu
If Christ chose comfort and convenience over his mission, we would have remained in our sins. If Nelson Mandela chose comfort and convenience over the freedom of South Africans from Apartheid, South Africa would have remained under the curse of Apartheid. If Martin Lurther King Jr and his generation chose comfort and convenience over the struggle for equal rights for African Americans, the gross open inhumane segregation and oppression against African Americans in the USA would have continued. Those who change the world are not the people you see in King's palaces with royal robes, but ordinary individuals who refuse to be indifferent to the plight of humanity. When comfort and convenience become the gospel of a generation, evil will triumph unopposed. We need Soul Revolution!