Identifying Your Vision 3
Welcome to Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
I like this Bible passage that says, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart.”
Another secret of discovering what you are on the earth for is to apply yourself to the pursuit of excellence. If you refuse to play the mediocre and keep looking for a more excellent way, you might as well discover the excellent passions God has generously endowed you with and the question as to what you are on the earth for is answered.
Dear listener, you really do not have to pursue excellence because you want to answer the question as to what you are on the earth for. The pursuit of excellence, I believe, should be a lifestyle to you. I do not think anyone has been created to be a mediocre. All I need to persuade myself about this is to take a look at the creator and his creation.
God is a marvel to our finite minds. He is fixed in his values, but not in his methods. At one time, he allowed the laws to hold sway. The people of Moses’ days would think they had the best. The Ten Commandments provided the divine guidance that would lead to a progressive man and an orderly society. Moses became the lawgiver and God’s point man of his generation. Any of Moses’ generation would have been satisfied with the laws. They would have touted the law as the best thing that had happened to humanity. There was nothing else to look up for. Remember, God wrote the laws with his own hands.
Now, we know they would have been wrong. God moved on. He even went ahead later to reveal the limits of the law and the supremacy of grace. Here is the way John described the relationship between the law and grace. He wrote: “For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” Paul was more direct. He simply said, “God took away one and replaced it with another.” God moved on.
His creation speaks eloquently of his pursuit of excellence. Man, the crown of his creation, is a marvel. The orderly cosmos is another marvel. The vast creation displays outstanding unity in diversity, beauty and excellence. Here is the way David sums up the wonders of creation. “How clearly the sky reveals God's glory! How plainly it shows what he has done! Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next. No speech or words are used, no sound is heard; yet their message goes out to the entire world and is heard to the ends of the earth. God made a home in the sky for the sun; it comes out in the morning like a happy bridegroom, like an athlete eager to run a race.”
We have inherited the pursuit of excellence from God. We would only be living out our nature if we make excellence our watchword. And that may be the path we need to take to discover what we have been created for. In whatever you do; ask yourself this question: Is this the best I can possibly put out. Do this regardless of the size or the importance of the task. Make excellence a habit.
Remember, this has been a presentation of life Africa and has been made possible through the generous contributions of friends. For comments or suggestions, please send a mail to leadingright@lifeafrica.org Please log on www.lifeafrica.org for a transcript of today’s broadcast.
Good morning.
IV Daring and persevering spirit may be your own path to discovering why you are on the earth. Welcome to Leading Right, a presentation of Life Africa. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
There may be some of us who may never discover who God has created us to be until we unleash the power of a daring and persevering spirit. Responding to the call of a challenge that faces you brings out the best inside of you and may as well lead you to your ultimate vision.
Problems are not final; so are failures. Those who believe this are constantly challenging the status quo. They are bracing the odds and do not accept limits placed before them by other people or circumstances of life.
Take a look at the people who matter in our society. You will notice there is one strand that runs through their personal, family or vocational life. The strand that refuses the label of “impossible” and moves ahead even if no one seems to be following at first. Whether in business, ministry, governance or in the professions, our lives are shaped by men and women who have discovered their visions in the crucibles of hardships, in the pains of challenging their obstacles; and in the throes of perseverance against failures that look certain.
Dear listener, you may just be one of these men and women. I shall offer a few advices here this morning. I counsel you to break from the old habit of accepting failure as final. Failure is not final; it is a part of the process. It is a call for a better method, a better attitude, a greater determination… Whatever you do, do not give up. Many in the world give up too soon and fail to discover their vision. When challenges come, do not run away from them. Whatever the colour or tenacity of your challenge, face it. Give your best to resolving it. If you fail, rise. No matter how many times you fall, make sure you rise again.
Dear listener, I counsel you to stop complaining and start daring. Refuse to take the easy way out by staying on the fence and watch the daring discover their vision. Whenever opportunity knocks on your door and dares you to take a daring leap forward, do not refuse the challenge. Go for it. Just go for it.
I like this Bible passage that says, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart.”
Another secret of discovering what you are on the earth for is to apply yourself to the pursuit of excellence. If you refuse to play the mediocre and keep looking for a more excellent way, you might as well discover the excellent passions God has generously endowed you with and the question as to what you are on the earth for is answered.
Dear listener, you really do not have to pursue excellence because you want to answer the question as to what you are on the earth for. The pursuit of excellence, I believe, should be a lifestyle to you. I do not think anyone has been created to be a mediocre. All I need to persuade myself about this is to take a look at the creator and his creation.
God is a marvel to our finite minds. He is fixed in his values, but not in his methods. At one time, he allowed the laws to hold sway. The people of Moses’ days would think they had the best. The Ten Commandments provided the divine guidance that would lead to a progressive man and an orderly society. Moses became the lawgiver and God’s point man of his generation. Any of Moses’ generation would have been satisfied with the laws. They would have touted the law as the best thing that had happened to humanity. There was nothing else to look up for. Remember, God wrote the laws with his own hands.
Now, we know they would have been wrong. God moved on. He even went ahead later to reveal the limits of the law and the supremacy of grace. Here is the way John described the relationship between the law and grace. He wrote: “For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” Paul was more direct. He simply said, “God took away one and replaced it with another.” God moved on.
His creation speaks eloquently of his pursuit of excellence. Man, the crown of his creation, is a marvel. The orderly cosmos is another marvel. The vast creation displays outstanding unity in diversity, beauty and excellence. Here is the way David sums up the wonders of creation. “How clearly the sky reveals God's glory! How plainly it shows what he has done! Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next. No speech or words are used, no sound is heard; yet their message goes out to the entire world and is heard to the ends of the earth. God made a home in the sky for the sun; it comes out in the morning like a happy bridegroom, like an athlete eager to run a race.”
We have inherited the pursuit of excellence from God. We would only be living out our nature if we make excellence our watchword. And that may be the path we need to take to discover what we have been created for. In whatever you do; ask yourself this question: Is this the best I can possibly put out. Do this regardless of the size or the importance of the task. Make excellence a habit.
Remember, this has been a presentation of life Africa and has been made possible through the generous contributions of friends. For comments or suggestions, please send a mail to leadingright@lifeafrica.org Please log on www.lifeafrica.org for a transcript of today’s broadcast.
Good morning.
IV Daring and persevering spirit may be your own path to discovering why you are on the earth. Welcome to Leading Right, a presentation of Life Africa. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
There may be some of us who may never discover who God has created us to be until we unleash the power of a daring and persevering spirit. Responding to the call of a challenge that faces you brings out the best inside of you and may as well lead you to your ultimate vision.
Problems are not final; so are failures. Those who believe this are constantly challenging the status quo. They are bracing the odds and do not accept limits placed before them by other people or circumstances of life.
Take a look at the people who matter in our society. You will notice there is one strand that runs through their personal, family or vocational life. The strand that refuses the label of “impossible” and moves ahead even if no one seems to be following at first. Whether in business, ministry, governance or in the professions, our lives are shaped by men and women who have discovered their visions in the crucibles of hardships, in the pains of challenging their obstacles; and in the throes of perseverance against failures that look certain.
Dear listener, you may just be one of these men and women. I shall offer a few advices here this morning. I counsel you to break from the old habit of accepting failure as final. Failure is not final; it is a part of the process. It is a call for a better method, a better attitude, a greater determination… Whatever you do, do not give up. Many in the world give up too soon and fail to discover their vision. When challenges come, do not run away from them. Whatever the colour or tenacity of your challenge, face it. Give your best to resolving it. If you fail, rise. No matter how many times you fall, make sure you rise again.
Dear listener, I counsel you to stop complaining and start daring. Refuse to take the easy way out by staying on the fence and watch the daring discover their vision. Whenever opportunity knocks on your door and dares you to take a daring leap forward, do not refuse the challenge. Go for it. Just go for it.
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