MINORITY IS NOT INFERIORITY

Everyman was created in God’s image and likeness with a touch of uniqueness and blessed with diverse potentials. Nobody was created inferior by God. Every man is equal before God having equal opportunities although with varying abilities according to the divine assignment a man is born to accomplish on earth.

Man was made a king to reign on earth (Rev 5:10). A man’s kingdom however (your area of calling) may vary from the next man’s in terms of size and resoures. But no matter the size and location of a man’s kingdom, he is not in any way inferior to anybody.
What commands respect to a king primarily is not the size of his kingdom but the crown upon his head. God has crowned us kings hence nobody should be looked down upon because of prevailing circumstances.

No man is born empty. Everyman carries enviable potentials and abilities inherent in him. Everyman carries a seed of greatness in him. The worth o f a man is not measured by his present circumstances or fate but by the beauty of the hidden treasures in him. A man ought not to be judged by where and when he was born or who gave birth to him but by what he was born with. Some were born in obscurity yet carries the key to the security of their nation.

We are in a society where people are rated by their colour, family background and material worth but this is faulty. No man is useless since everyman carries useful potentials in him.
In life, it is not your genetics (height, color etc) that counts but your genesis- where you can came from. You came from God. Again, it is not who gave birth to a man that counts or where he was born,but what he was born with - his innate potentials.


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Do not look down on yourself!
In life, your opinion and confession about yourself goes a long way in influencing your destiny. A positive (and stable) opinion about yourself attracts positive results. Your life begins to sink when you think that you stink because of tattered life has made you look like. So long your dreams are not shattered yet,you still have a place in destiny.

At times situations of life may make you doubt your chances of manifesting destiny. But the fact still remains “YOU ARE THE BEST OF YOUR KIND! Do not allow the venom of people’s negative opinions about you poison your self esteem. And do not be embittered against them either. They are entitled to their opinions. Just discover and be who you are and owe no man apology.

Do not look down on people
There is no justifiable reason to look down on people. Whenever you look down on somebody, be reminded that you are looking down on God indirectly because that person is God’s image. Dare to love and respect people for who they are and not who you want them to be.If you could mock people because of a clause on them,be reminded that you also have at least one of those clauses on you. So,be humble and learn to respect people irrespective of prevailing circumstances.

Some minors that did major things
History  has countless number of people who though were despised by men in one area or the other because of prevailing circumstances, but their contribution to humanity is resounding and un-ignorable.

Jephthah was despised by his brethren but became their hero at the end (Judges 11) . It is not how, where, when you were born and who gave birth to you that matters but what you are born with. Gideon (Judges 6) who felt limited and incapable of delivering his nation from their enemies because of his family background hid himself behind the winepress. But he ended up defeating the 55 thousand soldiers of the Midianite with just 300 soldiers.

The “majority” are not always people born into the biggest families but those that have made the biggest contribution to humanity. Men like Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln etc. all had a humble beginning but the impact of these men is immeasurable.

Your predicament is not an excuse for failure. Demosthenes was a stammerer   yet became the greatest orator of ancient world. Julius Caesar was an epileptic. Helen Keller was blind; Homer Beethoven was deaf; Charles Dickens was lame; so was Handel. Plato was a hunchback yet all of them have their names bodly and indelibly written in the sand of history through the unmatched fits of victories they won for humanity. In fact,  THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR FAILURE!
Irrespective of your condition, there is still something you can do for humanity. Know that even the smallest potential when discovered and put to work subdues even the biggest obstacle.


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Some secrets of these “Great minors”

While some people lose their chances of success to prevailing circumstances, others use their conditions  as a motivation to attain excellence.

1. Vision: Men of vision has always made the world better.  Your usefulness in life is tied to your contribution to humanity.  When you discover what  you are  born to do irrespective of where and how you were born and fulfil it using all you ‘ve got, you inevitably become a majority that the whole world will identify with. Men may look down on you because of your foundation but will always look up to you for the fruit of your vision.

2. Information: “What ye know, the same do I know also. I am not inferior unto you” (Job 13:2).

Inferiority complex is always birthed in ignorance – ignorance of who you are. Job was a man that suffered unquantifiable afflictions but never felt worthless before his fellows who often came around to practically mock him because he knows what they know. It is what you know that others don’t know that places you ahead of them. Anybody that is better than you simply knows and does something you don’t know and do yet. You will always be as far ahead or behind others the extent you know.

One of the greatest limitations in life is ignorance of the things you already have. Having something without knowing it is suicidal and self shortchanging.

God has given you all you need to succeed (Eph 1:3, 2Pet 1:3) irrespective of your background but ignorance may keep them under the veil forever.

When you are informed, you will be transformed. When you are transformed, you will be in-form to reform the form of your world. But when you are not informed, you will be conformed to the form of your world and consequently be deformed. And when you are deformed, you cannot perform.

3. Courage: it takes courage to come out of your comfort zone ingnoring all shame and bitterness generated by prevailing circumstances to pursue excellence. Without courage, you cannot make any adventure. Fear sees obstacles and say “it’s a no go area”. But courage sees even bigger obstacles and say “it’s a now go area”.

Finally the life of Christ is the life of endless possibilities (Luke 1:37). And if living the great life you are destined to live is possible, then what is the essence of living less? SHALOM!

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