When we are all starting in life, we think we are destined for
glory and prosperity. By the time we are probably 14 or 16 we have planned our
life. We usually have an ideal age limit for certain things to have happened:
Take an example of a young man who plans that by the time they are 23 they should
have completed their undergraduate studies, start working at 24, marry at 26, Have
two kids in their first 5 years of marriage, buy a car by 31 and a house by 35,
retire at 45, make investments worth $1 million by 55. Surely this is common in
life. Nothing is wrong with this. I don’t doubt it even for
a second its wrong. We even have secret lists of must do in life before we die.
The Rhythm and
Routines in Life
However, when we start off in life we realize that life is
not as we thought we were destined. Patterns of life are as not easy to come by. Crises start immediately when we come to
terms with reality in the ground. We soon realize life is a matter of fate. By
the time we are in our mid-thirties, life has hit us so hard that we feel there
is no more for us. We just swing in the rhythm and routines in life that we
forget we had planned out how our life should be. We think life has been unfair
to us and too often we find ourselves trapped in self-condemnation and
complacency.
This is because fear has eaten up our confidence and courage
to pursue our own agendas. Instead we chase after the whole world because we’ve
had our priorities all mixed up from the beginning. We run after what is not
most important in the name of putting food on the table. And so any job is good
for us even if it’s totally different from our training and talent provided we
get a salary end month. Any business is important so long as we’ve profits to
take care of our family. And interacting with anyone is as good if they ‘help
us’ go through life.
In One Sentence
This goes on throughout life until some who are lucky enough
realize at deathbed that we have not lived. We lived someone else life. All we
did was move along with the currents and the waves. However, these regrets
could have been avoided early in life, if we had painful introspection that
would implant restlessness in us that would last for years. This is the
challenge that may seem simple at first but that which can last our life time
and compel us to put all the more our effort to pursue it. and this go to our
room and write down—in one sentence—the single most important thing I am going
to do with the rest of my life. And one
more thing—it had to bring glory to God.
This one thing will liberate you to think of yourself in terms
of an individual – not as part of a group, family or a team. This make you
begin thinking of doing your “personal best” for that one purpose for the rest
of your life no matter the storms you will face. This personal and godly vision
will always bring you back to the path when you diverge. When you inspect your
progress each day, it will broadly shout you down in shame when your living does
not fit in the description of that one sentence when you are honest with
yourself.
Personal Agenda in
Life
With this personal agenda in life, you will have the
boldness to pursue and let go of the pride and the fear of clinging on to our
comfort places and people. What adds no value to our life and our vision; we
will have fewer problems blowing it away. And when you have a clear vision, people
will invest on it. People will want to be part of it and what God will do
through you. They will willingly invest their time, skills, emotions and money
in it.
In this godly vision, we must by faith and hope believe we
are overcomers and giants. What we have received
as a vision from God of what we must do in life, we must refuse to let go of
it. We need to be diligent in our calling. Courage to pursue it is a virtue we
must highly prize. We must be men who refuse to accept impossibilities. The
normal boundaries others accept mustn’t exist to us. You will be consistent if
you write down your vision down in a single sentence as if a slogan that
defines your agenda.
Vision and Lifestyle
When we have no vision, we fail to reach our full potential
because we spend our energies in life with what does no matter. We have
lifestyles that do not reflect our purpose in life. We simply live to only what
we eat, drink, cloth and spend our nights on. We have no bigger picture to
realize that life is more to eating, drinking, sleeping, hearing, seeing and
feeling. These are the indulgences in life that corrupt our true self and
vision. When we think and take them as if it is all that mattered, we fail to
see beyond and only live with veiled happiness and joy in life. We live in the
sensual experiences and world. While all things and indeed dreams, visions
start from the sensual world we must take them further to make them work in the
world of reality and possibilities.
Conclusion
And so today it’s my sincere hope that you will find that
one thing that you will bet all you have to live for it the rest of your life.
That which you would lose friends, family, money and job for and it would bring
glory to God. That which will cause you no regrets on your death bed.
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