There could be some among us who may be discouraged and wondering why they work so hard in their lives but they never get to enjoy what they worked for. In the present world we have two categories of people: The Fence standers and the Fighters. The Fence standers are those who criticize and say what you should or should not have done. They may cheer or jeer you. Some may even hate you but the real thing is, they want to be you but they cant.
This admiration mixed with envy transforms transversely into hatred that translates into verbal jabs directed at your person. In this group some pretend to be your friends but indeed they are not since if they get you at night when you are not seeing them, they can stab you in the back. Some take your accomplishments and make them their own when you are not there. If you share with them an original thought they use elsewhere and never give you credit. They will never acknowledge you even if you gave them help.
The second group of people are the Fighters. These are the people who President Theodore Roosevelt described in this famous quote as THE MAN IN THE ARENA "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
BUT the world is so influenced by corruption, hypocrisy and sin that evil has become our DNA. We walk in the corruption of our minds and our consciences are like those of the people who the Apostle Paul described in 1 Timothy 4: 1,2 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron. That is why other people work hard so hard but when they sit down to start enjoying the fruit of their labour, the category of Fence standers and the members of the systems of this world sweep in and take all that you have worked for like the Bushmen in this Video below.
The Fence standers in the Video above are unfair because they take everything without living even what they may not need. I wish they cut the meat and left some for the Cheetahs! The Maasai of Kenya are kind because they come in, take just what they need and leave the rest for the Lions that struggled to catch the prey. My encouragement to you is, never allow people to come and take what you have fought for. If you see they are many and you can't fight for what you have achieved, Look up Pray and fast. You will see what the Lord will do for you. God will see you through.
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