DO WE EVER "ARRIVE"?

There is a popular saying when something wonderful and large happens to someone. 

For example if you just got a new Bentley or you just got yourself a property on the new "Eko Atlantic" estate or something, people around you, if not yourself would say something like, "I have arrived" or "I don hammer".

Now I'm wondering.... Do we ever arrive?  Is that the best our lives are worth? Or is there more to look forward to?

I was in midweek service and my Pastor's wife was the minister who taught that evening.

She taught about "ENCOUNTER" and it was a loaded message.

From realising that the healing/ miracles we get from God, aren't miracles before HIM but, they are the norm; to understanding that in every encounter there is a potential.

Now, potential for what?

A potential to do something better, greater and mightier than what you just achieved.

When you get that property or you got the latest Bentley or Rolls Royce, you never truly "arrive" because so long as the giver of life still sees you worthy of the life He loaned you, there is still a lot to achieve.

The present encounters are "seeds that will produce fruit if properly taken care of; and inside the fruits are seeds to be utilised."

You never reach the end of your achievement or the peak of your encounters with CHRIST so long as HIS breath is still in you. 

Instead, you keep pushing, keep pressing and keep achieving.

A soul winner should not say, "I've won a soul today therefore I should take a break, I mean how many people win souls on a regular like me?"

Until you are very convinced like brother Paul in the bible that you have finished the race and kept the Faith, then you have truly arrived.

But, if you are not convinced of completion of  anything in life, you need to keep pressing.

Most times, one never arrives until one is DEAD!

Moral Lesson: resting on one's oars has never helped anyone. 

Thinking you have given a fair gap between yourself and your competitors, you decide to rest; in your moment of laxity , they overtake you and achieve greater things hence causing the world to forget you or your works.