There
are times when people whom you look up to and have hitherto taken as
inspirations, models, and mentors “refuse” to see things the way you are seeing
those things. At such times, some might even see you as becoming rather proud
and “over-ambitious”…while others simply believe you are beginning to grow
wings. But do you know that such points are not supposed to make you feel
dejected and despised…those moments are actually birth places of great
destinies for the few who truly understand. The truth is that, when you begin
to see and talk things that others are not seeing or talking, then it means you
are beginning to take the much needed leap into destiny. You have simply added
a third eye to your destiny; the eyes that not only look, but see.
Many
people are looking, but only few people are seeing because sight is not the
same as vision. What determines your capacity onto greatness is neither your
sight nor your size; it has nothing to do with your height…it is all about the
things you can see-VISION. The same way we sang as kids, “Some have food but
cannot eat”, I think kids of these days should be taught to sing also, “Some
have eyes, but cannot see”. Helen Keller, one of the greatest women that lived
said, “the greatest calamity to befall a man is not the absence of eyes, but
vision”. She was blind from childhood, but her legacies surpass those of a
thousand men with eyes. It means great things do not follow people who have
eyes, but those who use the eyes they have. The devil may succeed in stealing many
things from you, but the moment he steals your vision, he has cancelled your
future.
Many
times we are imagining and hoping God creates more things we need to become
great, but God wishes we understand that all that we need are all around us,
waiting for us to see them. Many times that we pray to God to turn things
around, He simply goes ahead to turn us around, because it might just be that
we were not seeing those things He has placed around us. Other times we pray
that, “God open my way for me”, but we should be asking Him to open our eyes to
the ways He has set ahead of us. This is an area we oftentimes pray amiss and
we say God has not answered us.
When
Hagar and her child were dying of thirst, there was a well of water all along
very close to her, but she did not see it. And then “God OPENED her eyes, and
she saw a well of water” (Genesis 21:19). Did God dig a new well when she “prayed”?
No. God only opened her eyes to see what she was not seeing. Sometimes, the
answer to our prayer for breakthrough is just God opening our eyes of
understanding and insight, and boosting our visions, so that we start to see
what we hitherto had been blinded to.
On
the mount when Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac, the providential lamb did
not disappear to the spot it was…it had been there, all that took place was
that Abraham now “saw” it. “Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the
thickets by its horns” (Genesis 22:13). The ram had been there; the answer to
Abraham’s need of a lamb was in the opening of his eyes.
And
the same lesson God taught Jeremiah, “what did you SEE”…and this came more than
once, and God told him “You have seen well” (Jeremiah 1:11-13). It is what you
see that determines what you will seek, and Jesus said, “Seek, and ye shall
find…and he that seeketh findeth” (Matthew 7:7, 8). What you find in life is a
function of what you see in life.
It
is time to pray correctly in this regards. Can you just pray, “God, open my
eyes to see the way for me”
Do
have a lifted weekend. Jesus is coming soon!
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