Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
At creation, God
gave man work to do (Genesis Chapter 2 verse 15). In Genesis Chapter 2 verses 5
to 15, the Bible describes how the Garden of Eden was created - again without
the effort of man. The trees that bore fruit for food grew out of the ground
and a river watered the garden. Man did not even have to do the watering – God
prepared the river to do it. Man’s assignment was to tend and keep the garden
as well as feed from it. What bliss!
The essence and focus of work is on being productive to be
financially rewarding and not on being busy. Therefore, be purposeful,
productive and profitable in your work by investing time to engage in in
spiritually, physically, mentally and financially productive and rewarding
processes as well as relationships in your work. As much as possible,
avoid time wasting relationships, activities and utterances. People without
clear cut visions and even when they
have visions but do not have clearly identified goals, SMART objectives.
Therefore they do not have clear road
maps of where they are headed in life because they have no idea where they are
going. If you must spend time with such people, make it really minimal
otherwise you will be caught in their maze of a circular dance that does not
take or move anyone forward in life. Spending quality time with such people is
akin to hanging around a dried up brook in a long period of drought hoping
against hope that water will suddenly come from nowhere.
Beloved, the
sensible thing to do is to move away as fast as your legs or any means of transport
at your disposal can carry you out of a dried up brook. Dried up brooks have
nothing to offer. God instructed the prophet Elijah to move out of a dried up
brook. Please see 1st Kings Chapter 17 verses 3 to 10.
People without
clear cut visions and targets in life most often gamble time and other
resources. This is because they do things haphazardly, they have no plans,
operate in trial and error, and if it works, great; with no plans to
consolidate on what has been done; and if it does not work, it is jettisoned or
abandoned without analyzing why it failed and how to make it work.
Unfortunately and this is the great danger of hanging around people without
clear cut visions . when they are suddenly faced with the consequences of the
foolish circular dance that does not take anyone anywhere (financially,
spiritually, intellectually, martially, academically, career wise, they resort
to the blame game and witch hunting – they point accusing fingers of being
hexed by family members, friends, church members, neighbours, just anyone to
excuse their mental stupor, lack of initiative, ignorance, clear cut vision,
and a clear road map for their lives.
The Bible clearly
says that people either go into captivity or are destroyed for lack of
knowledge (Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 13,
Hosea Chapter 4 verse 6). This is to say that the absence of knowledge;
knowledge that births clear cut vision, goals and SMART objectives ()Proverbs
Chapter 24 verses 3 to 5, 27 verses 23 to 27, 24 verse 27 and Isaiah Chapter 28
verses 23 to 29) can make a person wander because s/he lacks direction in life
and lack of direction births wandering which is the circular dance that leads
nowhere. It is a time wasting activity that leaves one frustrated, despondent,
totally drained, with no desire to move forward again in life on account of all
the disappointments and frustrations experienced in life. It is not the way to labor for profit.
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