Fight familiarity
The concept of familiarity should be taken seriously by individuals to elude unnecessary regret at the end. Many relationship which took so much commitment and honesty to be built, had been destroyed by the factor of familiarity. One of the greatest atomic bombs that has the capacity to destroy one’s beautiful connection and lifting in life is familiarity. You can find your way into someone who you are meant to learn from, may you never allow familiarity to step in.
Familiarity to my best understanding can destroy everything one has worked for and keep such person in abject regret. Many people destiny have been put to a pause simply because of familiarity. Those who were made to be at the top of a particular affairs in life, finally lost it all because they were so familiar with the person at the head and they failed to take and embraced their full responsibility that has what it takes to get them to the top and keep them soaring like the eagles.
It is in your power to detest any thought of familiarity
You have to put measures in place to help you handle familiarity. There is always clues that familiarity will always emerge. Familiarity is a cancer that has the capacity to take away someone life. Familiarity does no good as it seems to be, but it can destroy every thing that brings proper connection. Familiarity can make one talk to someone who has the connection to his or her next level in a bad mannner that will never end well between both party.
Everyone has a clay feet in one way or other. Therefore do not expect perfection from anyone you are looking up to. Those who ever allowed familiarity to stepped in, ever lived to regart their actions. Familiarity grows as time goes on. You don’t crucified people so badly that your thought was that they should be perfect. Do not grow with the motion to go close to people just to discover their weaknesses. When you aimed at people weaknesses, you will end shooting yourself thinking you are shooting someone else.
Discovering people weaknesses should not be a priority
When I came to serve under Pastor Uche Daniel, though I never knew him before the time we met, but I made up my mind to be mindful of the distance I will keep to him. This was so serious that all the while he was with us before he left for mission at Europe, I can’t be sure I have entered his car for any reason. If there is any reason I ever entered his car, that reason may not be more than once. I was careful about my walk with him because I was avoiding familiarity at all cost. Pastor Cjay who happened to be Pastor Uche direct assistant knew about this.
When we understand that no man has arrived in that land called perfection, we will understand better that every Pastor is a man of God and never God of man. It is blood that runs through their veins. They are human and not spirit. Do not expect so much from them that will make you lose the fact that they are just human like everyone else. They face temptation like anyone else. If you see anyone that falls into temptation, it is never a time to start criticising, because what you are criticising someone for can happen to anyone. Because it can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.
Fight familiarity with everything within your power
You should understand that familiarity is a disease and it is a deadly one. It is like a cancer that once it is sighted, one has to fight it with any thing within his or her power. If one fails to fight familiarity, familiarity will fight him or her. There is no two ways about that. If one fails to elude familiarity, it is just a matter of time familiarity will elude such person. If one fails to stop familiarity, it is a matter of time familiarity will stop him or her from achieving greatness.
Do not be deceived, once familiarity steps in it has the capacity to drive one into rebellion. Once one is drive into rebellion, it is a matter of time that person will be doomed if care is not taken. Familiarity is never a friend anyone should ever think to welcomed any time it knocks on the door of one’s heart. It is an enemy of destiny fulfillment that one needs to kick off the way any time it shows up. Stop playing draft with familiarity, it can mess every thing about one up.
1 – “Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 – And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
3 – And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
4 – And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
5 – And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
6 – And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
7 – And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
8 – And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
9 – And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
10 – So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
11 – And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.
12 – And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
13 – And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
14 – And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15 – So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16 – And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
17 – And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18 – And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
19 – And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
20 – Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
21 – And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
22 – And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
23 – Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.” (2Samuel chapter 6 verses 1 to 23)
In conclusion:
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs chapter 14 verses 12)
You can see that the end point of familiarity is barrenness. If you can’t bear the heat, you better leave the kitchen. Familiarity is never a factor one should play and joke with. It can cause eternal damage and disaster. If Michal can be barren for familiarity towards has husband, what makes you think you can get barren if you find yourself in the same mess as her. The tragedy of familiarity is barrenness.
