Written by
Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Every problem
has a solution. That is why it is said that problems or challenges are stepping
stones to greatness. Therefore, it always best to focus on solutions and not
problems. Besides, when you focus on finding solutions to a problem, you are
actually taking sides with God to deal the enemy a blow. This is because God
the Creator and Owner of the heavens and the earth in His infinite wisdom has
solutions to every problem or challenge, whether named or unnamed.
Significantly, God loves to give this wisdom to His children who seek solutions
to challenges that come their way. Besides, creative people always have
divinely received ways to navigate difficult circumstances and satanic
obstacles placed in their pathways.
The Bible
records that Daniel’s young life was threatened by a hasty death sentence from
King Nebuchadnezzar who said that all the wise men in Babylon should be killed
on account of their inability to tell him the dream he dreamt and forgot.
Rather than stew on dying young at the hands of whom everybody probably
referred to as a wicked king, Daniel sought solutions to the problem. He ran to
God to reveal King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream alongside the interpretation to him.
God honored Daniel’s request and the dream alongside its interpretation was
revealed to Daniel. As soon as Daniel told the King his dream and
interpretation, the killings stopped.
David focused on
the solutions to Goliath’s intimidation and was able to act and bring an end to
the intimidation and oppression of forty day and nights. Saul’s army including
King Saul focused on the problems and were immobilized for forty days and
nights, frightened to the roots of their hairs by the threats of Goliath. But
because David focused on the solutions, that is how to kill Goliath by the
power of God and free the army of Israel from his intimidation, God gave David
the divine idea of how to kill and experienced warrior who was also a giant.
Focusing on a problem always magnifies the problem while focusing on the
solution simplifies the problem. For instance, David’s faithful men who had
stood by him through thick and thin suddenly turned against David and
contemplated stoning David because their wives and children had been taken
captive by unknown marauders. These brave men had wept like women and
completely at a loss as to what next to do because they were overwhelmed by the
magnitude of the problem, they turned against David. But fortunately for them,
David focused on finding a solution to the supposedly loss of wives and
children. In his characteristic manner of always turning to God for help in
order to source solutions to whatever assailed him, David sought help from God
and God instructed David on what to do. Eventually, David and his men caught up
with the marauders and rescued their wives and children. This was because David
chose to focus on finding a solution to the problem rather than focusing on the
problem. If he had behaved like his men, he marauders would have probably been
long gone without hope of ever finding their wives and children again.
Esther and
Mordecai focused on the solutions to the threat of the Jews being annihilated
by the evil decree of Haman. Rather than focus on the decree that had been
signed for their annihilation on a certain day, they cried to God to find ways
around circumventing the irreversible laws of Persia. God showed up for them
and gave them His divine wisdom for circumventing the irreversible laws. In the
end, Haman paid for his evil while the Jews overcame as they were empowered by
a new decree to rise up in arms against anyone who attempted to kill them.
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