Uncoverable Glory I

Text: Gen.37: 1, 3-5
More Lessons: 1Sam.18:6-8

To come out with flying colours is to have success, to have something that is admired by everyone, to have something that stands out. Coming out with flying colours is not only a beauty, it is a beauty that is seen and known. Some people have glories that are not known or that are hardly identified but when your colours are flying, your glory is known, your glory is identified, it is visible. When glories are hidden though they exist, they are likely to attract less enemies but when glories are known, whatever happens to you, everybody knows. Everybody hears it, they know how beautiful you are in different areas, but you are likely to attract more enemies.

A Yoruba adage says, When your yam is blowing out, you use your hands to cover it up. This means that you can reduce the number of the enemies of your success by not saying much about your success to people. But there are certain glories that even if no one announces them, they announce themselves. How do you use your hand to cover those ones? The glory that will not be seen must be small. There is a dimension of glory that it doesn't matter how much you try to cover it, it's just known because of its size. A first class cannot be covered if it is first class that is earned; it's just there for everybody to see.

Even if you don't announce it, your teacher can come to class one day and say, I appreciate first class candidates in this class, people like…, how do you cover that? Or your teacher always asks students to answer question in class and you know it, you have to answer. So how do you make your classmates not to know that you are brilliant when you have to write exams and pass? Should a man fail so that his glory will not be seen? No. So I really do not know whether we should pray for glories that are not seen or pray for the ones that are seen, because I am looking for a glory that will announce itself.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that the glory that God has given you will not be covered.
* Ask that God’s hands will protect the glory of your life from glory attackers and hijackers.
List out what can make someone’s glory not to be seen. Pray about them today.

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