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I Nmost of the movies I have seen, consuming and unbearable fire is followed by rain.

The rain washes away the ashes, and the heat, allowing for calm. Even though it may seem like a scientific phenomenon, it follows a natural order of things like snow avalanches, whatever depiction it may presume, they always flow south. Whenever there has been a shaking, certain things will be destroyed but something always remains.

And what remains is what is authentic.

What remains is what was meant to be there, created to be there. It was established from the foundations of the earth to be a pillar.

GLOWING HOPE

It is required to sustain everything else, so much so that if at all fails, it will remain like a stump of glowing hope.

Avalanches for instance are moved away by a slight strong wind and when they shift, the mountains they were hugging will remain intact. Who can move a mountain, fires consume the grass that is blanketing it, and when the fires subside, rain fills the earth and what was burnt, even that blanket, grows again.

The process is the same in every kind of scenario, if there was something authentic and established by principles inside the covenant with the Lord, it remains intact amid all kinds of storms, fires, battles after battles, it is not shaken, possibly traumatised but it remains standing.

Then, because of this very principle I often ask myself when we are in pain, are we often hurting because of what is authentic. Or we hurt for what is authentic to be revealed. Because that which is authentic perishes not. It is in its nature to overcome.

This is one of the most challenging principles to bring forth to people that are in constant challenging scenarios.

PAINFUL

People will respond better to hearing that something painful will be okay, than for them to hear that they should let it go and let it die.

This is due to the fact that the principles founded in truth dictate that something that dies in truth is resurrected. Sometimes people want a pain tablet, rather than grabbing what was authentic in that situation.

Humanity was blessed with something incredibly powerful and that is the ability to restore. Sometimes this restoration may be in many folds, and sometimes unrecognisably visible.

But whatever must be restored means it must have been broken, shattered and possibly died. However, what remains even in the absolute demise of something is the ability to restore it.

Moses in the Bible sees a burning bush in Exodus 3. In that scripture it is written that an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: And he looked, and behold, the bush was not consumed.

At that great moment the Lord was about to commission Moses to release the children of Israel, but God wanted to show Moses who He was, that human phenomenon that resembles a character of God which is authentic and does not perish not matter how strong that fire has become.

In a few moments the Lord showed Moses as illustrated by an unconsumed bush. Essentially the Lord was telling him that as he leaves for Egypt he needed to recognise the essential element which formed him and subsequently deposited into him that it is authentic and will not perish.

AUTHENTICITY

The ability to build again is an inherent phenomenon of a God deposit into a human being. It is one of those generic make-up of a man. That even if everything may be consumed, that authenticity will not perish. It was never meant to perish, it stands amid all odds. It pillars human beings. The very foundation of a human being’s inner existence is anchored in his or her ability to use that human phenomena and rise in whatever circumstance that he/she finds himself/ herself in especially when it interferes with their sanctity.

I believe that if we knew this inert and God given ability, we would never succumb to failure.

Because in this realm of known knowledge and empowerment, when we lose material things and whatever it is to which we attach value, be it an identity or status, it means absolutely nothing when it is lost, because whatever is lost and perishes is ,therefore, unauthentic.

If we knew that we have a seed that can always be planted whenever the storms of life have destroyed our fields, we would stop crying over spilled milk.

The seed of a man who understands this spiritual phenomenon would appreciate that in the same way there is rain after the fire.

WRECKED OR RUINED

Time and seasons always allow for something that was eroded, wrecked or ruined to sprout again.

If at all you succeeded before in all your endeavors, but that was destroyed, stolen or broken, you have the ability to grow again.

Apart from your prayers, supplications and tears this is a standing principle, that what is genuine, real and authenticly created by God does not perish, even after everything is gone. It remains.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with rebuilding again, most times we are so terrified by the idea, such that we may even choose to hold on to things that are falling apart by themselves.

They do not even need assistance, they are just fading away with the wind and as they fall away, and my question would be, what falls away leaves what is authentic. Realism can never be faked.