ARROW OF GOD
IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING.
I don't know how to define impossible because even the simple ability to process the question is not as Possible as it seems.
Wed.July.23.2024 - Ubochi Nkwo
The World Your Living in is Floating Ohhh, and you're hear afraid of small noise?
In general however, it has been my experience that, Ifeanyichiukwu!
Oddly enough my name Ifeanyichiukwu, literally means "there is nothing impossible for God Almighty", and I believe this.
There is nothing that is impossible. No thing. Not when God, which is "everything" is involved.
Men die and never come back not because it is impossible but because the impossible has already happened, death. Do you know how hard it is to kill a man whom God does not wish should die? It Is impossible.
Women are rapped and the image never leaves them, not because it is impossible but because the impossible has already happened, stain. Do you know how hard it is to soil a girl on whom God wants no Grain? It is impossible.
Children are abused and many ask why God didn't save them, not because it is impossible but because the impossible has already happened, hate. Do you know how hard it is to hate a child whom God Has anointed? It is impossible.
Bad examples? Yes and No.
Hard examples, extreme, edge of reality because that is where impossible lives.
At the boundary of life is the notion of the impossible and since most people never stretch far or hard enough to reach that boundary, they fail to see what is at the other end, not actually the end, but actually more after. An end at which exists further possibilities that one didn't consider and the mind couldn't fathom in the absence of undying faith.
Faith is the foundation of our relationship with God and every failing is a failure of faith and not a limit of God. In faith is sight of the unseen that enables you to reach beyond visible reality for an escape hatch that cannot be seen by those who are too busy being "realistic" to fix their eyes on God.
God is not a "thing" but "everything" and so since all of the situations you can ever find yourself in are "some thing", it is only natural that "every thing" would be enough to get you out of them.
Truely, Ifeanyichiukwu. Beyond being my name, it is the other side of the end, that ensures that as a long as there is God, there is no End.
POSSIBLE (REALITY)
Russian (Nesting) Dolls include ever reducing presents inside another, almost limitless in scope, God's design often plants the best solutions inside the least possible casings, and we must peel open the onions of life till the end - quitting make it seem as it there is no solution but there is always, a solution.
In further introduction, it is important to examine what people say is possible.
Is having a child possible? Millions can't.
Is it finding a husband? Millions even loose the ones that found them to flimsy excuses and duplicate ideals that more so resembles the imaginations of an Instagram teenager than the educated thoughts of a mother of the sane.
Is it money that is possible? Did you know that there was a Tesla before Elon Musk and he wasn't even rich enough to be called a made man in the midst of New York Pizza Chain operators?
the very notion of possibilities is a very self imposed limit on something gifted, whose full value you have no ability to decipher. Given life, we tend to underestimate its maker and quite undervalue the "present" (gift) such that we often judge the sum total of our lives based on the present (Current Situation), and "now" has nothing to do with the limits of what later can be if you allow yourself to unwrap the gift of life without expectations and to accept whatever it promises without limitations.
NATURE
At the heart of the understanding of how much impossible is a figment of your imagination is the understanding that everything that exists is impossible.
Breath, impossible, Inhalation, impossible, the simple notion of getting high on a joint, Impossible. We accept them not because we can create them but because we have experienced them and therefore take them for granted.
A mother gave birth to you, sure, possible, but 10 months before if some things which she has no control over had not agreed to happen in her body, she would have become one of the millions who are walking around the world barren, so just having you is in fact an act of the impossible.
During the Covid-19 pandemic many who had access to the Mayor Clinic (a top American Hospital) and flights to medical Tourism, Jets and private Doctors, in fact owners of hospitals who themselves were Doctors and have Doctors as children, packed up like ants near bare feet yet obiagu and Ajegunle (famous Nigerian Hoods) held on as if by some divine hand, that which could kill an Elephant was now afraid of a deer.
Impossible is what we say when we cannot quantify how God can do something we haven't seen God do before. The quest then is, what is it that you have seen God do?
Where you there to take a decision on being made, or on whose home you land in, or in the way that you reasoned, or in the ways that you grew? Why now are you so concerned about the possibilities around the corner, when you, yourself are a factor of what happens when God shows up on the other side of a dead end. The very fact that life is hard is not in anyway a statement of flaws in your nature, in creation itself or in your ability to skip past hurdles and in the end be crowned a champion. In fact the win is more so possible when you accept the perfections of nature, both of creation and of yourself, this even when your life shows imperfections and the circumstances around you induce fear.
in essence, Rocks and Seas, Dreams and Gifts, You and I, are all evidence of the impossible and if you can see the impossibility that is you, then you might be able to recognize how much the things you are limiting God on are abysmally weak versions of anything that can resemble a high note when it is God that is singing.
Nature according to many religions is a direct reflection of God. The Christians say that "in the Beginning... God Said, let there Be... And there was". In most African Religions and Customary traditions and with special reference to our igbo Culture, the ancients refere to God as "Awa Awa Wara Ihe, okike, Kere Ihe'" (The Divider that divined all the things, the creator that Set all things). In essense all things including the very things that you consider impossible are at the mercy of the "Say" or the "Divinition" or the "Curation" of God. As such, impossible is not a notion that exists in nature, just in your mind.
For all things were made of "No thing" and the hand that holds the world is "Everything" and so for you to doubt the possibilities of nation is to and for some reason, insist that God has to fail, simply because you are too afraid to finish it.
If the things you crave come naturally to your mind, Body and Spirit, then they already exist, it is seeded in you and if they never come to pass it is because you are the one who dreams of a dunk but is refusing to jump. The very idea that your nature can imagine the leaps and bounds that you aim for, is evidence that such heights can be yours, even when no one has ever jumped that high. Either this, or you my brother, is in fact, very, very high. but I doubt that, clear eyes are the ones who fear most, precisely because you are wide awake and keep staring at what is in front of you and therefore are the one refusing to push past it and open the door to all that is naturally possible, if you dare.
There are times when we are having other peoples dreams and visions of a life that isn't our and searching for an end that is not in any part of the story of the Gods for our lives. This is a gamble and can never bring happiness but worse still is any thought that if in fear we settle for where we are, assume the comforts and avoid the fall that may come if we try to aim as high as our natural man tell us is possible for us, that we, products of nature, can ever find happiness when we have refused to live the life that is the subject matter of our creation.
Less who you are, there is "No thing" else. So therefore, what is actually impossible is trying to life a full life, and follow God yet stopping when God leads through a wall, that "seems" too high to jump.
Hit it, Climb it, Stand there and stare at it but whatever you do, do not try to do anything else but move in the direction of your God.
The answer you find, when you refuse to step out of your nature and insist to claim all that it holds, is what other men, in times to come, will call possible.
It is what you are Meant to do, that is Impossible, especially if you fail to finish.
SKILL
Nate Robinson at 5'9 (1.75m) dunking away in ways my 6'1 self cannot even imagine, even if high on cocain or given a stepping stool..
At the heart of the human ability to stretch creation beyond its known limits are skills. this of all the other factors noted here is the most physical and since we are practical beings, the most evident.
The God's give us a nature that has expandable capacity, our action push the limits with physical actions until our abilities grow to render our virtual reality into real life.
Skills are at the heart of the developments of human capacity to its own ever growing limits of possibilities, such that Basketball players of the new generation jump higher than their fathers, as if the air has change since 1960. Engineers now skip to new heights in the understanding of Physics and its application into ever reducing devices, as if Nikola Tesla was daft. Preachers may not walk on water anymore but they sure do gather 5,000 every Sunday, as if Jesus was merely playing around.
When we try, when we fight, when we build, even when we fail, we develop skills and abilities.
i always Joke that when the biblical Israelites walked around the walls of Jerico 7 times, it wasn't the 7 times that brought it down, it was that by the 7th time they had built a Bomb.
Skills enable you to beat down that tall wall, or skip over it, or chisel through it or learn to be like God as just walk on to the otherside as if there was no wall. Either way and in faith, when we refuse to quit on anything that is set on us by God and in essense refuse to limit what is possible with God, we "Breakthrough".
Our fathers are said to have been able to travel in smoke, to make wound heal, wounds on the inside, by rubbing vegetables on the outside while making incantations that the patient cannot understand. We are told, that they could count the years and the seasons, without calenders and named the stars without Telescopes and charted the seas without Maps, circulated water without pumps and lived in a world with wild beasts and nameless diseases, out living us in years, happiness, Quality of life, Morals and general other landish, superhuman achievements, simply because they knew that there were no limits.
Today, we make movies about it and call it fantasy, while driving around in horses that eat fuel, sailing on Fishes the size of Islands and catching a ride on Birds that defy every logical understanding of what is humanly possible.
We doubt, as such we can never invest the requisite time to develop the skills to be what they were. We fear and so we never build ourselves enough to do what we see of the world that others have built around us, for ourselves. We fail to sharpen the sword and blame the inability to kill our setbacks on the strenght of a challenge that is nothing compared to the simple fact that our minds can even fathoms whatever it is that God has placed in us, as an idea or comparable to the challenges the ancients faced just to perfect the ability to make a fire.
The Arrow of God, sharpens himself, taking advantage of every dull moment of rest, when it seems that the road is unmotorable, the hills impassable, the waters perilous, to prepare himself for a worthy death or the head of Goliath, true proof that God is God and not just a story told a generation later is in how the ancients made water climb a hill, or as we know it today a pumping machine.
Build yourself, taking every waking moment when you cannot reach your goals to make yourself a little better prepared for a slight increase in the score with which you fail. 10 times laters, let it be that what you are supposed to have, you have merely sketched. 20 times later, let it be that what you are supposed to be, you have now researched. 100 times later, let it be that you are now the best story teller about the life that should be and can narrate the details better than an iMAX movie. 1,000 times later, let is be that when people talk about you, they point and say, "that one right there, is not well, he continues to talk about the impossible". 1,001 times later, "make em eat their words".
Skills are not all that you need but often they are the only things you can work on when you are alone and no one sees the possibilities of what God has placed in your heart.
When no body believes, when money isn't there, when your dreams require a change in government, a new technology, a hopeless case of people believing in you when they are not even fond of believing in themselves. When everything about what you wish to do seems impossible, focus, work on whatever you think you would need to be, to do, to know, to have, to make with it, if and when (and when is most important) it by whatever means comes to pass.
Many destinies end because the hunter who went to shoot the bird, is now slipping when the bird has landed for its own nap, more because the hunter did not work on his aim all the while, and now even with the bird in sight and lying down asleep, he keeps shooting the tree.
DISCIPLINE
if you are to be awake when the bird is asleep or in simple terms, be able to take advantage of the windows of opportunity that God often presents when you are following with Faith, you must be diligent.
Discipline is required to achieve the impossible, so is Focus which is an expansion of discipline because whenever your arrow is pointed in the direction of destiny, the world of enemies do their best work to distract you.
If the hunter sleeps, the bird slips, not because it could not have been in hand but because you quit while you where behind and now remain behind. Coincidentally this would be when God has in fact aided and the object of your desires have slowed down in pace, have settled to drink water, had laid down to rest and could have caught up but in your lack of faith and its resulting indiscipline you are now also miles behind, buying it time, with your doubt.
The faithful, keep their eyes on God, insist on the vision, reject revision, maintain course and conditions themselves to maintain stride, regardless of the tiring fatigues of negative opinions, visious attacks and even self doubt.
Self-Imposed, pure commitment to die on the course, will always lead to victory because by design, the world was made for us to win and even the negative forces do not want to see you die trying. Trust me, they want to kill you, but not on those terms. God does not allow it and they need it to be that you quit and then had a heart attach, that you failed and committed suicide, that you gave up and allowed yourself to live out a miserable life and die off an inconsequential speck on creation.
Even the forces of darkness, do not want the world to have the example of your fighting for your dreams with your last breath, therefore if you are disciplined enough to value your visions above your life, more often than not you will "not" end up having to trade your life for it, rather, in putting your life on the line you may very well get the life that you know God had promised.
It is not a factor of Strength but Grace, which comes when you do your part.
GRACE
A screen shot from the 1986 movie THE GOLDEN BOY, a must watch.
Grace is the invisible hand of God on a life that transcends any human understanding.
An embodiment of ability, capacity and usefulness that goes far beyond skills and well past discipline to a world of divine equipment that only God can give.
Grace is the reason why a child named Elon can move the name of Tesla, well beyond the realm of the imagination of the man who made that name famous (Nikola Tesla Himself). Many do not know that the Tesla name, which the American Tesla Car bear, is the name of a man called Nikola Tesla who is one of the greater inventors of the 19th Century, who for whatever reason is less known that Edison or Einstein, not because he knew less than them or did less than them or was less than them.
His nameplate now sits on the car brand of a wierd man child (this is by no means an insult) as the single most notable Electric Car Brand in the world. Furthermore and for invisible reasons (by grace), its founder is in 2025, the Richest man in the World, The Most Famous Man in the World, One of the most Innovative men in the World, One of the world's Leading entrepreneurs, The Richest Self made Man, One of the Frankest Men, One of the Most Childish Men and one of the Hardest men in the world, all at once.
This is not skill, it is not discipline, it is not reasonable, it is grace.
They say that Mansa Musa was one of the richest men in the world, i don't know what kind of calculator he used to manage it. They say that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe secured independence for Nigeria, i don't know what kind of Entourage protected him. They say that I know one or 2 things, I can't remember what kind of teacher taught me.
Grace, is the fingerprint of the maker on the little that we bring, making it much, much more that it could have ever been and making the walls scalable with the little bit of skill that we add, which merely allows us to claim some of the glory.
Grace is not talent, it is anointing. it isn't magic, it is seeded. it isn't maybe, it is the right hand of God insisting that what was not doable. is, that what was not makeable, lives, that what they could not do, you can.
This is not because there is something you are doing that is so special, it is because you who are so special is the one doing it, under the graceful cover all that is in heaven and the earth.
FAVOUR
In the movie Pursuit of Happiness (Based on a true life story), Will Smith as Richard Gardner goes into an interview straight from Jail and still in a dirty, paint stained outfit and still lands the job.
the things that are impossible, the things that money cannot buy or that which you do not have the skills to make possible or the resources to acquire, are the places where God likes to live.
Favour is the unnatural intervention of God in a story, an intervention that corrects lines of errors and turns the grains of pain in a life that has appeared to be an artistic failure, into a masterpieces of heavenly impressionism that no artist can truely understand or remake.
Favour is where forgiveness lives or moreso where the evidence of it is seen. Favour is in my ability to write these articles with a flow and fluidity which cannot be found in Skill, or Discipline but is inherent in the Grace upon my life and the favour of God to attribute a "talent" fully developed wherefore an artistic endevour becomes a standard order of the day which i can repeat as if painting with a stencil, flowing from line to line without any need to think the lines before time or attempt to imagine the ones, after, yet by the end of this article, when I proof read it, it will only be for spell check and grammatical correction and 3 months from now, when I read it again, i myself, will be impressed.
it isn't work, it isn't a hustle, it isn't a chore, it isn't an endevour, it is favour flowing through me and my only role is that I had faith in god, long enough to watch what is possible when i start with what God said and type till God stops speaking.
MERCY
Sean "Diddy" Combs and then girlfriend Cassey, before they both showed their "rear ends" to the world.
And we will fall. Often not because we wanted to, mainly because we lost faith or did not have it at our foundation.
if God is to measure our success on our continous diligence on course, many of us will not finish strong merely because we had spent 2% or 50% of life doubting, switching, changing and shifting away from the exact destination set for us by God.
My ancestors would pour libation, kill Cocks, Incant, Recant, Plead, Sacrifice and Pray because they believed that God and the world could hear their repentance and have "Mercy".
mercy would not make sense, if after the apology, you still recieve the slap. If after sacrifices your Son still dies, if after repentance the visions that God has ceded in your heart becomes merely something that could have been, a reminder of your failures, even when you had "in time", found your way.
The point of mercy, is that if "in time", you see yourself deviating from course, slipping into slumber, failing to build your arsenal and you fully and shamefully turnaround to face God, the Arrow can be sharpened by thunderstrike, your focus aided by the clouds alignment, the prey sold dreams by the wind, such that what you could not shoot at, you can now capture in the palm of your hands, no shot fired.
This by no means is suggesting laziness. It is implying Ogechi, "Ogechiukwu" (God's time), that by virtue of supernatural design the only lost dreams are the ones you sleep through. Otherwise at anytime that you wake up and the dreams are still there, there is still time.
Step back, reconnect to God, realign to your vision, hold on, move fast, believe and mercy is there to fill in the blanks having long been waiting for you to come back and take with ease what only seemed quite difficult because you did not believe.
IMPOSSIBLE (DESTINY)
How is this possible? Yes, I understand the science and in understanding it, I understand how Ludacris it is for a man to sit and imagine, in the days of the horse and buggy.
I have an article on destiny or as my people call it "Akara Aka" (That which is set in time), feel free to read it as this is just a summary and conclusion to this article and not a full take on destiny.
My name is Ifeanyichiukwu and I intend to ensure that Africa in my lifetime renders a life for the majority of its people, in fact for all hard working people that "Beats a Child's best Dream".
This is a ridiculous wish. i am 38 now, let's see how the story goes by 2062. Till then, I insist on that vision not because I think it is possible but because i know that it is an "Impossibility made for me".
Destiny is about impossibilities made for you.
Any other "man child" who tried what Elon does end up in Jails or Homeless. Every other freedom fighter that tried what Azikiwe did ends up mandela or Lumumba, Every other writers that takes on this topic after reading this one can only force himself not to pick something and fight himself not to quote something.
It isn't about the incredible difference in how Elon sees physics, or how Azikiwe attended to politics or how I have learned to write. It is that what Elon does, is so fricking Musky, and Nnamdi did it the Aziki Way and AjaAni is not thinking while he writes this truth.
Unveiled in this article is an indiscriminate, unordered, regurgitation of inspiration and your achievements are nothing different.
When you in faith, execute your "mandate", claim your "territory" and fullfil your "Destiny". the world will change the dictionary to move whatever it is you made and/or are, into the section of the book that now has a title for the word, thereby making what ever it is you made, possible.
it wasn't possible, it was living inside of you, that is why you must be willing to die to spill it out, simply because you can't actually live with all this stuff inside you.
Impossible is God, oozing out of you and changing our world, continuation to cretion and the ever expanding reality or our lives for which you are the seed.
"No thing" is impossible, but you can choose to live as you are and if so, that thing that is in you will still be considered impossible because we will never know it enough to give it a name. At least not from you.
So, in conclusion, give it a name, even if it does not seem possible and now that you have a new pet, live for it and you my friend may get to die happy.
IFEANYICHIUKWU!
GLOSSARY
AOG - ARTICLES CONCEPT
the Arrow of God Series is an unabashedly African take on the worship of God, the Divine things of Life and the Concept of a Life that is Morally just, Spiritually upright, Human in the most Divine possibilities that it holds.
My intention is to convey without apology, a personal view of God, Life, Nature and the World, as well as personal choices, ideals and the ways to a worthy expenditure of the breathe you now hold - Skewed with intent to Restore an African view of human excellence.
In view of my position as the Curator of the African Renaissance Order, it takes on the name "Arrow of God", a title taken by those among us who chose the divine mandate to live a life of service.
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