FOR THE DISCOURAGE

Imagine yourself a child, abandoned on the streets of New York. Your immigrant parents died on the ship on the way to America. You have no money and no relatives. You can not speak English. And you are left to fend for yourself.

As many as 33,000 orphans found themselves in exactly thats predicament in 1850. They slept in allows, huddling for warmth in boxes or metal drums. To survive, the boys mostly stole, caught rats to eat, or rummaged in garbage cans. Girls sometimes worked as “panel thieves” for prostitutes, shipping their hands through camouflaged openings in the walls to lift a watch or wallet from a preoccupied customer.

Immigrants were flooding New York city then, and no one had the time or money to look after the orphans- no one, that is, except Charles Loving Brace, a 26 year old minister.

Horrified by their plight, he organised a unique solution, the Orphan Train. The idea was simple: pack hundreds of orphans on a train heading west and announce to towns along the way that anyone could claim a new son or daughter when the Orphan Train chugged through.

By the time the last Orphan Train steamed west in 1929, 100,000 children had found new homes and new lives. Two orphans from such trains became governors, one served as a United States Congressman, and still another was a U.S Spreme Court Justice.

Leadership is all about service

Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” —Mark 10:42–45

When people aspire to leadership, it often stems from a hunger for significance. This is a dangerous reason to seek leadership because once you get it, you’re likely to abuse it.
Jesus adds to the idea that whoever wants to be great must be a servant, but he adds a new component. The higher you want to climb, the more of a servant you need to become. If you want to be at the front of the pack, you need to be the slave of all.

LANGUAGE

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” (Ephesians 4:29, 31)

Language is the use of words in an agreed way as a method of human communication. In other words, if not in an agreed way, it could be corrupt communication. And out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. It can also be established that, what proceed out of our mouth comes from within us (heart and mind).

Clean communication or language is evidence of a bright, wholesome goldly mind. Corrupt language comes about as a result of associating yourself with corrupt people, bad peers and listening to the wrong people.

How we speak talks alot about us. What you say must be evidence of the word of God in your heart. Spend time with the word of God. It will teach you to use language that uplifts, encourage and compliment others with the very word of God.

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:” (Ephesians 4:31)

We must be very careful in ultering words and must let the words of God speak to the hearers through us, even in our jokes.

Speak kindly and positively about others so you can fulfill the LORD’s commandment to love one another.

Profane, vulgar, or crude language or gestures, as well as jokes about immoral actions, are offensive to the LORD and to others.

Corrupt language harms your spirit and degrade you. It degrades you because, this degradable words are within you and does not let you profers anything good. Hence, it does not build your spirit, and if you don’t grow, you become retarted.

Many of us are sometimes influenced by others to use these languages. It is very important that, we help others to use clean languages by our example, rather than being influenced by them negatively.

We must consider who we are communicating with, and let our choice of words edify, and minister grace to them.

Politely walk away or change the subject when others around us uses bad language.