EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

Your life should be a PLUS not a MINUS. Living to add value not to take value away from people is the real essence of living.

Every deep positive insight that can add positive value to humanity comes from the spiritual faculty. The spiritual faculty is the creative faculty. It is where all great inventions that have added value to the world came from. The principle of extraordinary life is a spiritual concept from the spiritual faculty revealing the type of life God the father of the spirit world wants us to live by. Extraordinary life according to the revelation of the spirit is living for others to live to the glory of God. This is exactly the kind of live Jesus came to model for us. The original essence of Jesus sojourn on earth is to teach us how to live. Jesus is a model of extraordinary life. He sacrificed His life for posterity. Throughout His short stay in life, He went about doing good, sharing love and kindness by healing the sick, raising the dead and helping the downtrodden. He was not meant to live on earth; He was an example of extraordinary living sent by God to model the kind of life God expect from us. We are made to be the models of Jesus’ character as His disciples. That means we should be discipled (trained) to live like Him. That is the true essence of spiritual growth. This principle of extraordinary life is the insight behind MISSIONART ORGANIZATION OF CHILD EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MOCET). God has mandated us to sensitize people to live extraordinary life. That is the life of contribution, solution and being a blessing to our community and nations. The greatest commandment Jesus gave us is to love God with all our heart and to love our neighbours just He loved us. That means if you live only for your family and relatives, you are living an ordinary life. When you help someone for what you want to gain in return, you live an ordinary life. Extraordinary life is giving help to someone who is not related to you by flesh, when that help is centered on supernatural love which is to the glory of God. We are one by our spiritual birth. We are all from one spiritual father but from different fleshly fathers. God is our spiritual father that is why He wants us to love our neighbor for His sake. Jesus came to unite us in one spiritual body. That is why the moment you become born again you enter God spiritual family. Supernatural love is number one fruit of the spirit.

Two types of love

The core of Jesus life and message is love. Love can be categorized under two; the natural love and supernatural love. Natural love is the love we have for our wife, children, friends and relatives while supernatural love is the love we have for our neighbors for the sake of God. Your neighbor is anyone that is close to you wherever you are whether you have met the person before or not. That is to say that if you reside in Lagos and you travel to Kano for business trip, right from the time you move from your house to board the flight from the airport, anyone you come across is your neighbor. Loving and caring and thinking of how you can be a blessing to those in need in your own little way for God’s sake is supernatural love. Jesus painted a picture of supernatural love with the parable of Good Samaritan. The Good Samaritan took care of the wounded man he never knew. He saw the need of that wounded man and volunteered to lend a helping hand for God’s glory.

 

Comrade Arinze Okwara
a blogger, writer, speaker, contend developer,social entrepreneur, Social reformer  founder: MOCET and the initiator of Poverty Alleviation Academy