Indelible Marks

Unbelief or Credibility issues

March 19, 2008 on 1:30 pm | In General, God-factor, Motivation in little things |

I woke up this morning with a question on my mind, if i say to someone, “i don’t believe you”, who needs help? Is it me or the person who i should believe in. Ok, i’m rambling again but i know you love my ramblings…why else are you here lol. But seriously, i want to expand this thing that cropped up in my mind..

I have just been wondering whether it’s me that needs help with my (un)belief or the person that i should believe in that needs to work up more credibility. In the case of me and God, i know that God is ok o, so its obvious that i’m the one that needs help with believing in him, seeing and knowing that he is true to himself . Let me rephrase that, if you are in a situation that seems to suggest that God needs to get it together (lol), i am here to tell you that you are the one that needs to check yourself cos the creator of the www (whole wide world) can’t but have it together.

What happens in our daily human interactions shows that there is such a high level of credibility issues. Actually, it’s the way we deal with each other that spills over into our relationship with God. We doubt God the way we doubt ourselves, if you get what i mean. We don’t honour our commitments to one another so we feel God acts in that same way.

Appointments we voluntarily make are not kept, we fail in delivery of promises, even promises of service delivery to our customers who are the key components of our businesses, and am not yet talking about exceptional service delivery (that will be taking it too far i guess), just the regular. Why should we not keep our business and personal appointments? If for some reason we find we will be unable to make it, placing a phone call in advance will do..not shutting down your phone! I think people appreciate forthrightness over “dodginess” or outright dishonesty.

Our financial obligations one to another are hardly kept. A (wo)man says, “loan me an amount, i’ll square you by my next payday” and even goes ahead to issue a postdated cheque…payday comes and goes and the cheque bounces, which in itself is illegal. I would rather you tell me the real deal, the truth rather than posting me like letter. I have conducted businesses with people online 95% of whom i never met, they pay money into my account expecting me to honor my end of the deal and i do. It therefore hurts when people don’t do same when i’m the one parting with money. The world isn’t so large… so run all you can, one day the truth will catch up, its not an uncertain IF, its an unknown WHEN.

Go easy on the promises if you feel that out of your hardheartedness, you seem to overpromise and underdeliver. There is actually a school of thought that says, “Better to underpromise and overdeliver than to overpromise and underdeliver”, meaning that people are less hard on you if you dont break a promise you didnt make than in breaking the ones you actually made. If your word is your bond, then give your word and let it be your motivation for keeping to it. Ok, its hard abi? I can relate but i know its do-able.

Help us to believe in you by being a credible person, you are contributing in no little way to how we are perceived world over, i mean we naija peeps o. If you and i do our little bit, Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard.

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