What are you living for?
What exactly is your destiny here on earth?
Why do you think ‘of the over one million cells, you were
the only one whose half made it through to your other half in your mother’s
womb’?
If you can’t readily answer these questions at this time,
then going to the maker to inquire why he created you would be an urgent and
paramount need.
Living without a purpose or a vision is the worst thing that
could happen to a living creature! Worse still; one created in the image of
God! It is said “you cannot hit a target that you cannot see”
Let us briefly see ‘Time and Achievements’ from the biblical
standpoint: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise”
(Prov. 6:6). According to the oxford dictionary, a sluggard is somebody who is
slow and lazy. Now get this, one might not be literally or physically slow
before such would be called a sluggard. Not moving through life with a vision
is sluggardly as well as boycotting responsibilities. A little study of ants
would show that they never tire. When last did you see an ant asleep? (You need
rest though! You’re not an ant). Even if their one mission is to survive by
providing food for themselves, they do it with zeal and determination, never erring
from their vision. Place an obstacle before them and they’ll climb right over
it- oblivious to even you- and continue their journey because they have a
mission and a target. Study has shown that an ant can carry an object over five
times its size, what a feat! Come to think of it, not a human builds the
anthills you see around. The ants are orderly when moving, even without a
commander. They strategize for one reason: the knowledge of the fact that if
they don’t meet their target; getting food during the rainy season, they’ll
suffer for it all through the dry season. The nursery rhyme- “Tick! Says the
clock, Tick! Tick! What you have to do, do quick!”-might not have had a
thrilling meaning when read in nursery school, but it sure does now.
Whatever
your mission is anywhere you find yourself, never delay in executing it. Don’t
just sit there allowing time to pass, rather pass time and wait for it at the
finish line. You’re not too young to cause a change in your location; Joash was
only seven when he began to reign as king (2Chron. 24:1). Don’t say you’re in
your still in your early twenties, it’s too early to step out on the platform;
Zedekiah was twenty one when he stepped into the throne (Jer. 52:1).
Don’t
think of being too late or too old to achieve that dream of yours; Father
Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born unto him (Gen. 21:5). Do
you want to start up a small or large scale business? Then START! Do you want
to bag a first class degree? C’mon! STUDY hard and depend on GOD! Do you want
to evangelize? GET OUT there and do it! Do you want to take over the world for
Jesus? Come out and exercise DOMINION! No more dilly-dallying (Rom. 8:19), let
us take charge of our horizon as Ambassadors of Christ, doing what Jesus Would
Do!
God Bless You,
Onwuka Ikpa
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