USE THE RIGHT KEY!

I more often than not type my blog post in my phone first, before sending the word document to my laptop for completion, editing and publishing. On Saturday the 15^th of this month, I took my laptop to a family friend for servicing. Come Thursday last week I’d completely forgotten about it and only remembered when I needed to send my post to the laptop for editing. The only other laptop I could use is my Dad’s, but his has a broken screen. To use his laptop I needed to connect it to an external monitor- from an old desktop machine we had. So I set up everything (as I’ve seen my brother do a zillion times) but I couldn’t get the laptop to project on to the monitor.

Normally, my 13 year old brother comes to my rescue when am technologically challenged but last week he was on holiday at the coast (a 6hr drive away) with his school and  I couldn’t ask him, as they were not allowed to carry mobile phones. When my younger sister stopped by the house to pick me up for a meeting, she also tried to help but nothing worked. She even called her husband to ask, but the instruction he gave (to press Fn + F4 or F7 concurrently) did not work. I even pressed Fn + all the function keys, but none seemed to work. It was so frustrating that I gave up and left for our meeting.

Later on in the evening, I decided to give it one last try. This time round, I tried again what my brother in-law had suggested; only this time I held down concurrently, the Fn + F7 keys longer and voila the screen came alive. I stood up and did a little victory dance, super excited that I was finally going to publish my blog post.

My frustration on that day got me thinking of how often in life we get stuck because we don’t know the right key to use in a particular situation. Imagine you trying to start your car using your house key. No matter how much you cried, prayed or fasted, the key wouldn’t go in and even if it did, you wouldn’t be able to start your car. As long as you are using the wrong key for the right door, the door will not open for you/the situation will not turn around for you.

I was playing ‘Angry birds’ earlier, and to unlock the next level, I had to have successfully finished the one I was currently on. No amount of praying in tongues and fasting would do, I had to first finish one level to move to the next.  God created us each with a specific purpose, and endowed us with different keys to unlock the different levels of purpose. Unfortunately not so many believers go to be with the lord, having unlocked the last level of purpose (having successfully fulfilled this purpose). We either live in oblivion of this or probably start well, and take a detour when the key we’re using refuses to work. We then end up using the world system’s keys, as opposed to going back to God for the right key.

Like in the movie ‘3 idiots’, from birth, we are told that life is a race. We are predisposed to finishing first and best in everything or else we’ll be labelled low achievers. We strive to outdo each other in our dressing, accolades, school grades, at work, in possession etc everything is a competition. So by the time we’re hearing the ‘purpose’ message, we have some lots of unlearning to do, otherwise we go about it the world’s way-comparison and competition.

Every proper key we need lies within us,

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

2Peter 1:3 NIV

So, if we have everything (every key) we need, what’s the problem? The issues are:

1. We are living outside God’s system,
2. And if we are already in, we do not know how to use the keys we have, and where to use them.

So if we’re in, how do we figure this out? Well, through an intimate relationship with God. It is in our really knowing Him, that we know which keys we have, how to access them, plus how and where to use them. His word is the manual and His Spirit dwells in us to teach us all we need to know (John 14:26). It’s that simple!

It’s about time we found out the specific thing we were called to do and begin doing it.

Landa Cope in her book ‘An introduction to The Old Testament Template’ Says “God is not looking at the past; He is looking at the finish. He is challenging me to not only begin well, but to finish well. Then, and only then, will He be glorified in my life and through my work for Him.”

It doesn’t matter where you are right now, it is possible to go back to God and recover all you lost while using the world’s way of doing life. Just one key can set you past the time you’ve lost.

We should come to a place that God completely has us that we effortlessly apply the right keys to whatever door we face, because that’s how we were created to be-to function like God. Jesus allowed God to have him completely {John 4:34, 5:19, 6:38 & 7:16}. It is from His intimacy with his father that He always had the right key for every door He encountered.

He then promised us that we would do even greater than He did, from our place of deep belief/faith in Him. {John 14:12}.

And we cannot have this deep faith/belief unless we are in an intimate relationship with Him.

May we be those ones that will glorify God with our lives because through Him we sought and used the right keys for the right door, and successfully unlocked the last level of purpose.