180-DEGREES TURN TO YOUR SHOKOTO (Part one)

All you are looking for in Sokoto is in your Shokoto (trouser pockets). Yoruba Proverb

     One of the most outstanding books I have read is Acres of Diamonds by Russell Cromwell. In it he told stories of men that left what they had in pursuit of what they wanted only for it to be discovered later that they had that same thing in their own place they left.

     Of special note is a man named Ali Hafed who owned a large farm. The moment Hafed learned about the discovery of diamonds and their worth, he sold his land for peanuts and went in a futile search for diamonds. He never found any and later died a wretched poor man. Soon afterwards, the man that bought his land stumbled upon a stone that was identified as diamonds! That field, the diamond field of Golconda, has one of the largest deposits if diamond ever discovered and Hafed sold it out to search for the very thing he had.

   

     Sure Hafed looks stupid to us but many times than not we all are Hafeds, leaving what we have for what we want only to discover we have what we want. Read these treasure-words: “Much food is in the tillage of the poor…”, (Proverbs 13:23). Did you see it? Every time I read those words I grow goose bumps. The proverb says the poor man has all he needs in his land!

     Are you asking the question on my mind? Why in heavens name is he then poor?

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