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Excerpt From "The Youth Proverbs"

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Click to purchase the book, THE YOUTH PROVERBS
YOUR SUCCESS IS VOID OF INFLUENCE, WHEN YOUR LIFE IS VOID OF VIRTUE
Just a stone's throw to your success city
But wait, do you carry influence?
Influence the roof of your success abode
Without influence, success becomes an ennui.

Success without influence is like
A house without a roof
No one seeks refuge in a house without a roof
While there are houses with roof.

Influence draws friends
Influence plants you in people's heart
You can live in the success city and not be needed
You are needed when you carry influence.

What holds influence on your roof of success is virtue
Virtue is the pillar of influence
Even to faith you add virtue
A life of no virtue is a life of no meaning.

No one seeks for it, if it has no meaning
The meaning of your life is reflected through virtue
O Youth! Season your life with virtues
Kings bow in honour when you are virtuous.

Virtue within
Influence without
Success in whole!
Virtue makes you influential.

When your life is void of virtue
Your success is void of influence
When your success is void of influence
Your wealth is limited.

Success plus virtue array man with influence
Seek for this attire of influence
Success plus influence commands wealth
If you desire true wealth, wear the attire of influence.

Wait, is it all by virtues?
It is only by influence?
No! Every good gift is from above
I mean from God.

God owns the anointing of influence
What a mystery!
No matter how virtues
Without God, no man sees you're virtuous.





In a nutshell
The beauty of success and whatever is given to man by God is that we add virtue to it. How influential you will become in life is determined by how virtuous you are and how much grace God pours upon you.

It is a reality that everyone wants to be treated right, nice and comely. It happens that no matter how competent a man can be, if he's not virtuous, few people or no one will seek for solution from him. How do I mean? As a youth, you must be virtuous in all your ways to attract people. Because the weight of your success is dependent on the people you are in relationship with, there is need to be good to them. People around you are the reason why you are what you are. If you keep them out because of lack of virtue, then your success is hollowed.

Ordinarily or humanly speaking, Joseph the son of Jacob, who was sold to slavery, was not supposed to be anybody's friend in the prison.  His virtuous life took him to prison because he was not ready to compromise God’s standard. He was faithful to his maker and honest enough to his boss in the strange land of slavery, even in his absence, not to touch his wife despite the amount of pestering by Potiphar’s wife. So, he was jailed because he fled from fornication  but there in the prison, the aroma of his virtue exploded as he was kind to other prisoners. What an irony! Eventually, virtue took him from prison to palace, where he became more influential (Gen. 32). Hey! You say you don't need to be influential now because you have nothing that looks like wealth in your life as at present. Remember, if Joseph was not influential in prison, he would never have gotten to palace. Whosoever is faithful with little is worthy of more.

Being virtuous ranges from being loving, joyous, peaceful, patience, kind, good, faithful, gentle and self-controlling. Which are all the fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

The most important thing to understand is that success is costly. Our societies are crowded with lots of "so called" wealthy people who their lives are void of virtues. No wonder they've not been able to make any reasonable impact in their generation. If you must make impact with your wealth, you must be influential through being virtuous.



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