The TotalMan Concept; Its Difficulties...

It is really difficult being The TotalMan. The man who has everything going for him at the same time, with no lack or shortfall in any - His Ministry, Marriage, Education, Business, Health and his Social Impact status. To tell you the truth, it is really hard to be such a man.

The concept of the TotalMan brings to mind the article - Death in the POT. In its synopsis, there is an ultimate and divine call on a man and in his bid to carry it all on, some parts of his life are affected negatively. Whereas some have their lack in education, others have had theirs in business, others in marriage and others in their health and social credibility and so on. It is not too faraway to see a preacher's kid misbehaving. 

In short, one cannot be that TotalMan, at least in concept. In other words, on paper, it is impossible to achieve total success in all areas of life, with facts from history.

At this point where I, myself, am going through almost same challenging times with having to blend just about five out of the six areas, it is very easy to accept and agree with this perception and never argue a defense case out. It is very easy …

Easy? Yes Easy…and that’s what it is. Easy to say no one can be a real TotalMan. 

But who says we want things easy? Human beings have never wanted things easy. The easy way is contentment. 

That’s not our natural make-up. No one really wants to be in the same place year after year without any form of promotion or development in his or her life. 

In my short time lived and read I have come to believe nothing good really comes easy. Like my beautiful and intelligent wife, it was not easy to find her in the first place; like that business producing the best of profits, it was never easy to even venture starting it; like that doctorate degree, it was not easy acquiring it, like that good health condition, it was not easy maintaining it; like that renowned International Christian ministry (WWC), it was not easy dreaming its establishment, like that social service delivery, it was not easy committing to.

So the last time ‘easy’ was used for a thing, it meant failure and unrealization or a cut short of dreams and expectancy. 

God never said it was going to be easy; but he meant all throughout His word that it was going to be worth it.

The Word of God has always been around to give strength to the weak and feeble; purpose to the wanderer and the unrest, and to the dreamer and the Desiring, hope and reward for labour. 

His word was explicitly in Phillipians 4:13, that all things are possible through the strengthening of Christ. Anything Christ-centered succeeds. 

Therefore, I can be that TotalMan, having all the areas and angles surrounding my life covered and flourish through Christ. 

And what this means is that my Ministry, Marriage (Relationship), Education, Business, Social Impact and Health should have their source of sustenance in Christ and He being the Pillar in the Centre of all Success and Failure, will reward WORK and Deligence.  And He will turn my life in that of Joy, Peace, Satisfaction and Success i have always wanted.

To you, same...

The Concept Catches on…