Dear,
I bring you greetings from Calvary
and the empty sepulchre. Calvary reminds us of the greatest love and compassion
ever shown while the empty sepulchre reminds us that Christ is risen and I pray
that you will experience both in your life.
I write to congratulates you on the
successful completion of your secondary school education and pray that the good
Lord blesses your labour and rewards you with good success and that He gives
you strength to finish other stages of your life.
Am writing to forewarn you of the
challenges you will likely encounter in this new sphere of life and to provide
you with time proven technique of combating them and maximising your life.
EXPECTED
CHALLENGES
1. Loneliness: At this moment of your life
there is a tendency for you to be lonely. The daily meeting with your
classmates in school is over and though you might have some friends around your
neighbourhood you might sometime still feel lonely.
2. Cash out:
Now that your daily, weekly, monthly or termly income is out you might experience
cash out. Also your need will expand because you will probably be changing your
hair look, your wardrobe, your library, electronic gadget and the likes. You
need income for all these new expenses and you could become cash strapped.
3. Peer pressure: With the abundance
amount of time in your hand will come peer pressure. Pressure to attend all the
parties, streets jamz, jamboree, spend endless time on social media and just to
be like you peers in all ramification.
4. Idleness: Remember the saying, ‘An idle
man is Satan’s workshop.’ There is the possibility of being idle, which comes
with the temptation of engaging in vice or vices.
MAXIMISING
THE CHALLENGES:
1. Make friend: This is time to make new
friends. I don’t necessarily mean physical friend. You should make the Bible
your friend and learn to develop great closeness with it because it will lead
you in the right path in life. You should develop an insatiable appetite for
reading books with different interests. You should make friend with yourself
and learn to love yourself. The outside world might have dictates your tastes
while in school and might have feed you with their expectations, your peers
might have also distort your view but it is time to seek and know the real YOU. It is time you know your strength,
uniqueness, beauty and modus operandi (mode of operation). Now is the time to
know what works best for and you get to the point by befriending you self. You
are fearfully and wonderfully created; get to know that fearfulness and wonder!
2. Get an income plan: You should have a
plan on how to make income and this is where the study on scale of preference
in economics comes in handy. You have to know your need and want and also plan
how to spend your money. You need to cultivate the bait of tithing. Pay God his
tithes and also pay yourself your tithe. Get a bank account, a small save, a
wallet or anything you can save your money in and know it will be safe. Find
ways of making money also. You could get a small job or teach some students for
financial returns, use what you have to get what you need (this is a biblical
principle; it is the using of what you have in a sinful way that is a sin).
3. Face the pressure: You cannot shy away
from the pressure but rather face pressure. There will be both positive input
and negative input from your peers and you must only accept the good ones and
reject the evil ones. The pressure of having either a boyfriend or girlfriend
should be shunned, the emotional trauma outweigh it benefits. You should rather
be a friend to all without a particular associating with one. The lies that no
boyfriend or girlfriend now means no future marriage partner is a blatant lie
from the devil. Your Boaz and your Ruth is being prepared by the Lord, don’t
allow a Delilah or an Amnon to destroy your future.
4. Never get idle: There
is a distinction between meditation and idleness. You need to spend time to meditate
on God’s word, the type of future you desire, the type of news you hear and
happening in your society but never get idle. Meditation in itself is an
activity while idleness is to have the time and strength to get an activity
done but don’t have anything to do.
5. Get a skill:
It is time to add hard skill to your soft skill. You could learn a musical
instrument, go for computer appreciation course, learn a craft, learn how to
plait hair and also don’t forget to learn good home making skills: setting of
tables, cooking, decorating of house etc.
6. Invest in your future: It is time to
start preparing for your future. Your future is divided into two: a future here
on earth and a future in heaven. It is high time you get a picture of the
future you want. The picture might not be perfect now but an idea and a
perspective of it is needed to guide your choice. It is time to start praying
and also working for the future you want. In life labour, might and power has
its place so also the Spirit of God has its place; don’t lose any of them. For
your spiritual future, you need to get save if you have not, get committed to
Christ, do the work of evangelism to get stars on your future crown and live a
continuous holy life in order to get to Heaven.
For now my dear friend, this is my
piece of advice and I pray that God bless and multiply you.
