MUST READ: Six Important Life Lessons Taught By A Pencil (Part 2 of 2) A pencil is used mostly during the early years of a child’s learn...
MUST
READ: Six Important Life Lessons Taught By A Pencil (Part 2 of 2)
A pencil is used mostly during the early years
of a child’s learning phase. This is a fairly lengthy period which runs through
the kindergarten stage into the first two to three years of primary education. Later
on, the children will use the pencil for art and drawing diagram. Apart from schooling
needs, a pencil has many other industrial and commercial uses. For instance, in
the civil engineering field, it is used for drawing plans and other applicable
diagrams. In short, a pencil is a very vital component of people’s lives.
In its make and uses, the pencil provides
us with six very important life lessons. Let’s explore them deeper in this
two-part series.
Part
1 of the article is found here:
https://www.tapiwazuze.com/2019/07/must-read-six-important-life-lessons.html
4.
In life you will undergo some painful sharpening that will make you a better
pencil:
The pencil remains consistent in carrying
out its assignments of writing and drawing. However, sometimes the pointer
loses its sharpness and can no longer deliver with perfection. In those
situations, the pencil owner will take the sharpener and start sharpening the
pencil. That process is metaphorically painful because it involves shedding off
its outer covering layer to pave way for better writing and drawing abilities. The
pencil knows that though it is going through some painful pruning process; the
end result is better performance and abilities.
As human beings, we ought to learn from the
pencil. There are times in life when we go through some very painful moments!
Some of those moments are beyond any human comprehension. You search for explanations
but no one can explicitly give you any convincing answer! Always know that God
knows and understands your situation far more than anyone else, yourself included.
God periodically takes us through some pruning processes even as he prepares us
for higher assignments and callings. Whatever happens to us is meant to make us
better performers in whatever assignments we are given.
5.
To be the best you must allow yourself to be held and guided by the hand that
holds you:
While the pencil is a magnificent asset, it
does not and will not just wake up and do as it pleases. It yields and submits fully
to the dictates of the user! It is directed through one’s hands and performs as
per instruction. It will never stand on its own. It has to be directed in all
its processes.
As human beings, we ought to learn from the
pencil. Never has human beings been assigned to be the alpha and omega of their
lives. They are designed to accomplish God’s mandate on this planet earth as
assigned in Matthew 28:19-20. We have the Great Commission to accomplish. Romans
3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God”. We have to work so hard to depopulate hell and overpopulate
heaven. We work on assignment, and our supreme boss is the Lord Almighty.
6.
The pencil finishes it’s a lifespan empty:
As human beings, we ought to learn from the
pencil. It is a serious robbery act to come into this world and die before
emptying the package that God sent you to deliver to humanity. How can you play
with life and die before publishing those life-changing books? How can you do
silly things and die before recording those worship albums? How can you sleep
around and die before evangelising to the world? How can you drink-and-drive,
and crash yourself before establishing that orphanage? You have to live your
life to the fullest, under godly principles, and deliver the full package that
God gave you to deliver on planet earth. We are waiting to bury you after
writing your name in the hall-of-fame.
In
conclusion, let us look at the words of the Apostle Paul; one perfect example
of a man who lived the life of a pencil.
2
Timothy 4:7-8 – “I have fought the good
fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid
up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will
give to me on that day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved his
appearing”.
Be a PENCIL and allow GOD to be the HAND
that guides you throughout all your life!
Tapiwa Zuze
