Look Ahead Beyond Where You Are Now...

I usually get excited about the promises of the future. I call it the prospect of the future which invariably attracts protest from your enemies. But it takes one having insight to behold the promises; Otherwise, the failures of the past and the challenges of the moment might becloud the vision of your tomorrow wherein lies the reward. This revelation will provide you with the inner strength (stamina) and arouse you to move on, never to quit no matter the spur of the moment. Jesus Christ is shown as the role model for us to emulate in the race of life. For the joy of the crown that was ahead, he endured the cross with its attendant pains! He was able to forge on because of the reward awaiting him Hebrews 12:1-3.

There must be a compelling reward or prize that would captivate your attention towards moving forward to your future; the compensation for your past failures and present struggles is in the future! The only way you can experience it is by forging on against all odds. Just let your head be held high and forge ahead. The prize is what makes the price worth paid for! The prize to get after you must have paid the price is what should be your motivation; the strong force that will always keep you in motion.

Exert All Your Energies In What You’re Focusing On

A person who wants to go forward must be passionate about it. There must be a tremendous measure of enthusiasm that will provide the steam and create the momentum needed for the movement. Anyone who must experience progress must first and foremost be propelled with the force of zeal; otherwise his result will be zero; there will be no advancement in the right direction. The person is expected to exert all his energies; spiritual, emotional, material and even physical energy to create the necessary momentum to drive him in the direction of his dream. Without enthusiasm, certainly your pursuit will wane and you won’t win at the end. Therefore, in order to move forward, your zeal should greatly assist you to harness all your resources. Harnessing and putting all your energies would help sharpen your focus and avoid deviation due to distractions.

One of the key qualities that made Paul an outstanding Apostle was the un-quenching zeal he always exhibited in the midst of daunting challenges that will ordinarily had made some people quit Phil 3:13-14. He was zealous in all he did even when he was severally tortured and imprisoned by the religious authorities of his day. There is nothing that will make one to hate his own life if not zeal to accomplish his mission uninterruptedly and unequivocally. Such one would prefer to die in the course of fulfilling his purpose than to fail and be alive. It was such zeal that made Apostle Paul to preach the gospel and write epistles even when his hands were in chains in prison (what he did was to use the services of his main allies to write while he dictated the wordings). Indeed, he was an epitome of zeal! Zeal is like a raging fire that nothing can quench; instead it consumes whatever stands by its path until it is done with the consumables.

    As I mentioned earlier, you must be looking at where you are going and what you intend to achieve and move in that direction. Anyone who doesn’t look forward cannot move forward! You cannot be looking backwards and expect to move forward. Rather you move in the direction of where you are focusing your attention on and back it up with corresponding actions

One thing is to harness all your energies (resources) and another is to channel them in the right path. Though some people mobilize their energies, they normally channel it in the wrong direction which will invariably result in backwardness. This happened to King Solomon during his last days when he directed all his energies in marrying foreign women and building temples for their goddess. The resultant effect was that his heart was not fully trusting in God anymore and he then became wayward and went backward.

Denis Waitley advised thus – Don’t dwell on what went wrong, instead focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving towards finding an answer.

Written by Noble Nnakenyi.

‘The greatest adventure is what lies ahead’

‘There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind’

‘Look forward with hope, not backward with regret’

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