Everyone at one point in life will face a dark moment. A moment whereby your closest friends will say horrible things about you and desert you like Job's friend did to him (Job 15). A moment whereby your bosom friend will betray and sell you out like Judas Iscariot. A moment whereby even your trusted brothers and sisters will rise up against you like they did against Joseph.
A moment whereby you will call and no one will be there to answer. A moment whereby your flesh will be completely broken and you seek a comforter and none will be found. A moment whereby your eyes will cry out the pains of your heart and no one will available to wipe them off. "Oooh! What a wicked world", you would exclaim.
BUT, even at the darkest part of your life don't lose your mind. You may lose your friends, your money, your beauty, your house, your cars, even your family -wife, husband, child but do not lose your mind. If life challenges lay hold on everything but your mind, then you are the winner.
This is a truth you must never forget. The major distinguishing factor between failure and success, a fall and a rise, a weakling and a strong, is the mind. The state of your mind is as important as your life. Hence, the Bible says that you must guard it jealously. "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life." Proverbs 4:23.
Once your mind is distorted every part of you is distorted. But if your mind is intact then every part of you is intact.
Edmond Mbiaka quoted " The past could only control your present and future through your mind. So by all means, guard your mind with the gate of positivity." Ernest Agyemang Yeboah quoted, "Beware! Your mind is a target!"
Edmond Mbiaka again quoted, "In order to live in the reality of your God's given destiny, you must consistently guard your mind against all self-defeating thoughts." Ernest Agyemang Yeboah again said, "Even a computer guards itself against virus, why not you? Guard your mind!"
Again, even at the darkest part of life, don't lose your mind. Shield your mind against all odds, with positive affirmations, but above all with the word of God. God is not a wicked God to allow you die in that dark place, He is never too late nor too early to act. He acts just at the perfect time.
In 2 Peter 3:9, the Bible says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness..."Amp.
In Psalm 16:10, "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."
David testified this of the Lord, "I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord." Psalm 40:1-3
One thing that kept David, Joshua, Peter, Apostle Paul, Joyce Meyer, Bill Gate, Abraham Lincoln, name them, and the great scientists we celebrate today is the fact that they did not lose their mind despite the dark moment they went through. They kept the state of their mind intact.
No matter the depth of you challenges, how many times you have failed, how many times you have fallen, how many times you have been rejected, how many times that project did not work, no matter, no matter... DON'T LOSE YOUR MIND, and at the end, just like David in that Psalm 40:1-3, you will testify and celebrate. For surely God will not leave your soul in that "hell".
DON'T LOSE YOUR MIND.