Pastor Raphael Ogbe unpacks how to handle your past, present to succeed in the future

Leading motivation strategist and personal branding practitioner, Pastor Raphael Ogbe has unpacked how individuals can handle their part and the present to achieve success in the future.

Unpacking this incisive insight in the first topic in the series, “REFLECTIONS ON LIFE,” at a recent talk, Pastor Raphael Ogbe, a senior pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God Province 98 in Ikorodu, Lagos, while expressing diverse insights in reflecting on the meaning of life and existence, illustrated that the terms ‘Past, Present and Future’ are words we use every day. But as common as they seem to be, they convey deeper meanings about life and existence.

According to Ogbe’s philosophical reasoning, the “Past, Present, and Future” form the framework through which life is perceived and assessed.

In relation to men, Pastor Raphael Ogbe also reflected that the past, present, and future of life can coexist or occur simultaneously because they are all situated on the same axis of time.

To further explain this paradox, Pastor Raphael Ogbe provided a powerful example of the relative duality of the past and present, showing how one person’s current circumstances are exactly the same as those of another who lived years ago, while another person is consciously choosing to live the same kind of life.

Similarly, according to Ogbe, a future desired by someone right now is definitely being lived in the present by another and it is certain that this has already been lived in the past by someone else who now seeks a better life tomorrow.

He therefore stated that while life is transient, time is constant and the only things that change are human desires, ambitions and pursuits.

Ironically, Ogbe asked if this meant that tomorrow probably does not exist. According to him, today is actually yesterday’s tomorrow. And the day before was yesterday’s future.
Pastor Raphael Ogbe made the assumption that the present is the future of the past and the future of yesterday, as if he were demonstrating a theory.

Underscoring the thrust of this reflection, the clergyman affirmed that the future starts now and anything one desires to change or leave behind in his life could have been done just a few minutes ago.

Based on these realities, Pastor Raphael Ogbe advises never to live in our past, but to improve on it and leave it there saying that to dwell on one’s past failures or achievements is to be stagnated

Moreover, the man of God, who is a gifted multi-instrumentalist exhorted people to look for those who are already living the future they desire and try their best to get in touch with them. Lest the world leaves them behind, he concluded, because this could shorten the route to the desired future without becoming complacent with the past.