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Itai Chapunza
IT’S January again. The race to getting school books, shoes and bring one back to reality has begun.
And as usual people have resolutions that they are fired up about. Truth is, in most cases, these resolutions do not work.
The reasons why they do not work are varied, but a few a constant in most people.
The first and most obvious is that people are only fired up about resolutions for a short period of time. Soon they forget about them, and go back to their normal routine.
Secondly is that resolutions are mostly done year after year.
Meaning they are based on how you feel at the time. It therefore means your resolutions sway you from side to side, today you are excited about engineering, your resolutions may include going to school to be one.
Tomorrow engineers are not being well paid, then your resolutions change you begin to plan on moving from Zimbabwe.
Resolutions make you like a flag. You simply go where the wind blows. This is not acceptable for a child of God. God expects excellence from us.
Daniel 6:3-4
3 Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
We cannot do mediocre things in the name of still waiting for God to bless us.
The blessing of God is better magnified on the excellent. You must strive and work hard to stand out in all your work as an excellent crafts man and an excellent Christian does not have resolutions.
He has a vision.
A vision is beyond just the current year.
A vision is lifelong. A vision will spell out where you are supposed to be every day, every month, every year, every decade all the time. One that has a vision is on the right path to excellence of a child of God.
A vision is quickening. It makes one seem to move fast towards things that are outlined in their vision. Moses for example had a vision to free the Israelites from Egypt.
In other words, he was a politician, he was a freedom fighter. That being said, Pharaoh was not going to simply give them up because they worked as his slaves.
They contributed to the GDP of Egypt. The only reason Moses stuck it out even in difficult times was that he had a vision.
He had a clear picture in his mind of what he was trying to achieve and had set goals in order to progress towards it.
When all your energy is focused on one thing, you do better at it because you are not swayed by hype and new things.
Thus, vision quickens you towards achieving it.
Vision is motivating. It makes you willing to do things that onlookers already conclude is impossible in their minds.
All of us go through difficult times in life. There are only two things that set success apart from failure. The first of those is Christ.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
The second thing that sets success apart from failure is vision because vision motivates you.
The picture of where you are going is so clearly imprinted in your mind that no amount of difficulty can derail you.
It is so clear you almost feel like you have been there before and long to go back.
That is the nature of vision. It is motivating beyond what one can explain.
A vision is constraining. People with vision get their act together, they have direction.
A vision tells you what you cannot do, where you cannot go, and what you cannot spend time and money on.
That is the nature of vision. For example, if your vision is to be a soccer player in the English Premier League, you will not be seen indulging in drugs and alcohol because those things directly affect your level of fitness.
That is the constraining nature of vision. You will also immerse yourself in the study and knowledge of soccer formations, drills, styles of play, types of play and many more aspects of soccer.
That then is the direction aspect of a vision. So, without knowing it, vision will keep you in check and out of trouble unless the vision is to be a criminal.
In conclusion, have a vision child of God. Do not set yearly resolutions that show lack of excellence that God expects from us.
Have 50-year plans, 100-year plans. Plan as far as God allows you to see and most importantly stay in Christ, He is the vital fuel you need to succeed in your vision. Have a blessed year ahead.
Walk tall, look up, be proud to be Zimbabwean, God is doing great work in our nation in 2020.
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