BIBLE TEACHINGS WITH JOEL OSOBA
8 lessons from the life of Bartimaeus. ( A sequel to “Attitudes to God’s visitation”)
Bartimaeus was a blind beggar, whose eyesight was restored by Jesus.
In the today’s post on “attitude to God’s visitation.” Bartimaeus as a character was exposed.
Here we draw and distill into 8 points, lessons from the short story of Bartimaeus in Mark 10:
1. Enjoy the thought of a better version of yourself in spite of the current handicap you face. Be hopeful, allow your thoughts run wild towards brighter days.
2. Be loyal to your strength and successes and deny your weaknesses and the attention they seek to weaken you.
3. When your opportunity to shine comes and you know you can take the stage, don’t keep quiet, push anybody, any stopper out of the way and do your thing, you’ll reconcile later.
4. While you are confined by circumstances, have your game strong, ready at any time to hit the ground running.
5. Be coded, gather intel in silence, use your ears, eyes, nose everything you got to gather information, any information can prove useful.
6. Have your priorities right. There should be something at the top of your desires that is the key to unlocking every other thing in your plan and life. For Bartimaeus it was his eyesight.
7. Know how to use information to get the attention of potential benefactors. Of all names of the Messiah, Bartimaeus chose to call Jesus the “Son of David” which is direct supplication to the irresistible mercy of God.
8. Be ready to neglect with reckless abandon whatever has helped you in the past when you know it can’t play in the new space of the future God has shown you. When Jesus sent for Bartimaeus, he cast away his beggar uniform because Bartimaeus knew he would never be needing it again.
Learn from Bartimaeus.
Peace.
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