Living Without Crutches by Samuel Ufot Ekekere - HTML preview

CHAPTER TWELVE

THE FAITH CRUTCH

Faith is the opposite of fear. It is having so much confidence about something becoming real that is actually not real. Real achievers can find faith to be a reliable crutch. While I say “reliable” is because faith knows how to look into the future and kick you into it. It knows how to maneuver its way through the obstacles that are certainly part of the journey to that great future.

Faith is dependable even in herculean situations when helplessness and hopelessness arrives to deter one from gunning for that intended great feat. If you truly want a journey farther than your eyes can see into the future, then the extra legs of the faith crutches could come helpful

The faith crutch has the capacity to jumpstart and helps you jump through series of mountains that is capable of standing against your achieving great things. If you truly need a crutch, then it is this one.

The faith crutches has the following effects

• It FIRES us to an unprecedented quest to achieving seemingly difficult task, with a propelling effect
• It ACTIVATES those seemingly dead dreams and aspirations, reenergizing them and giving them life
• It INSTILS in us self-discipline required to break through seemingly difficult scenarios of life
• Faith TALKS you into seeing the positive sides of any challenge even when all is seemingly negative and hopeless
• It HARRASES every negativity and weakness, bringing the reality of tomorrow’s achievement into today.

Faith is the language of great achievers. No great achievement arrives just like that. No great achievement was initially great. It was filled with blindness, puddles, broken bottles and a huge impossibility around it. It actually takes faith to see light, beauty and possibility when it is dark. It is faith that begins the walk towards perfection and it finally reveals the huge beauty and possibility.

Faith has the tendency to be weak or strong, big or small, minute or mega. However the name it is called, it is still faith.

You want to learn the language of faith? Just do this.

• Fill your mind increasingly with positive thoughts of reaching the endpoint even if you haven’t begun yet.
• Aspire to be in the future that today seems impossible and work towards it.
• Inspire others to see reasons why your dreams and aspirations must work. When others catch your fire, there is huge possibility of you not failing.
• Talk about what you intend to achieve every time. The mouth has the capacity to propel you towards achieving great things. If you can say it, you can do it.
• Hit the start button then go ahead without looking back. When fear tries to steal in, look head on and tell it, I have started, I must reach the finish line.

If you truly need a crutch to walk along with you, then let it be faith.