the main course...

Extra-curricular activities are activities we do aside and outside the main curriculum, and there are two examples I can remember now.
The first is the story of a young man who got admitted to a college and before he started attending classes had already become a member of the college football team, excellent soccer player , excelled on the pitch but couldn’t do much in classes , often times than not he was very tired after practice and personal drills each day , at the end of the term , he failed and couldn’t continue in the school team .
The second story is that of a very funny dramatic Nigerian ‘mother’, Mrs Omokorede , who was in her dauughter’s school on the open day with Funmi’s result , she saw the Arts teacher and the teacher was trying to explain to Mrs Omokorede the fact that one of Funmi’s paintings have already been admitted at the State gallery , Mrs Omokorede did not want to hear any of these , she saw Arts as a not so important subject and moved on to the Biology teacher to express her displeasure at a report that says funmi has little interest in Biology and more in French.
It is noteworthy that Mrs Omokorede desired Funmi to be a doctor and therefore thinks Funmi must have the knowledge of Biology, and she states her reasons for that desire, she wants to live in a big mansion, wants funmi to marry a doctor and also buy her a Nissan Micra , I hopefully will share this clip again to those who have not seen it.
Mrs Omokorede might have been wrong in determining what was major and minor for her daughter as no one can actually tell with regards to career as most of what I have reffered to earlier in the first two paragraph’s will be different if that boy who skipped classes ended up as KAKA or Messi, or if the girl became bigger than Micheal D’angelo.
I am actually not writing this piece for football or no football, latin or no French, arts or no biology , I am writing it to ask a few questions that I have sought to answer in the course of this week , WHAT REALLY COUNTS?, WHAT?.
This quickly takes me to one simple answer I found and I felt I should share with you,
I quote Luke 10:41-42(MSG)
“The Master said, Martha, dear Martha, you’re fussing far too much and getting yourself worked up over nothing . ONE THING ONLY IS ESSENTIAL, and Mary has chosen it- it’s the main course , and wont be taken from her”.
This piece is where my where heart, eyes and ear open , Its important to note that Martha was not lazy , she was active , she was actually worked up , but she was getting herself worked up over nothing, and after this insight I ask myself , what I am I doing , and what will it matter , how will it count , and he showed me a phrase in the quoted verse , MAIN COURSE.
A lot of us have chosen the sides and we are hungry and thirsty , a lot of us have been busy , worked up over nothing , worked up over here and now, over one day , one night , one meal , one year and a hundred years and yet ignore the main course of eternity .
A whole lot of us are lost in the hustle and bustle of the marketplace and have forgotten HOME, the real assignment , OH MY? As always , I am the NO 1 Guilty and I don’t always hide , I only share so we all can move upward and forward.
In the process of thinking , I reflected on how we so desire that the figures in our bank account increase and not our heavenly account, forgetting to laying up treasures where moth and rust cannot reach, how I would so love to do this , do that , get this and get that and totally ignore the purpose of the manufacturer of me , this product of the master , forgetting totally the message I was sent and deciding to just continue with whatsoever I desire .
I therefore urge and hope that my humble self and my all readers will actually choose the main course and deliver the message that we were actually sent , for I can liken this to being sent on an errand by an elder and after this long , we have not even done nothing about it , and Arugbo-ojo, (the ageless one ) has sent us on specific and peculiar errands , I hope you would start doing yours right away, as I hope to do same .
If this world passes away and the things I have lived for and hustled and jostled and struggled for all pass away , then of what value or importance is my life , I guess its time to lay up treasures in heaven , but don’t forget , before you go to heaven don’t say IFE says we should only take the main course and you then abandon the sides, Nope, All is to be enjoyed , For if God wanted to us to live so as to get to heaven , he would not have sent us to earth only to struggle to come back to heaven, He would have created us in heaven , I therefore think it is also important to , Have Dominion and Subdue the earth and Go ye into all the ‘WORLD’ both geographical and non-geographical , the business world , entertainment world , etc.
He said seek ye first , the kingdom of God and all other things shall be added unto you
Much Respect to men and women all over the world who have genuinely sought first, and taken the main course as main , 24/7 and much love to my brother Temiloluwa Ola who has heeded the Main Course beckon, GOD strengthen you and to Tolulope Moody, Israel is arising in many Jacobs! Gbam.
As joinder to the article, I add a song I learnt not really well years back
How is your inner man
How is your prayer life
How much of the word of God do you have in your life or you are just busy for him
Busy serving the lord
Busy preaching to all men
Do you really know the lord or you are just busy for him.


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