12/01/2020
I want to dare you to discover your life's purpose. It is quite worthless living a life that isn't yours to live, only to discover some few years before you are fifty.
I recently heard a prayer made:
Lord Show Me The Secret of My Life.
We are like unravelled secrets. A treasure locked away in an alabaster box. We must become broken for the sweat smelling perfume to reach the ends of the Earth and bring us our profit.
What's an alabaster box in this context - Your belief system, your past experiences, your pains and disbelief as a result of the people you have been with, the lies you have believed, the places you have been and the environment you grew up in.
Pray this -
Break this alabaster box, Lord!
Everything, Everyone found on this earth did not come to be by happenstance.
Everything, everyone has a purpose that is designed to bring a certain change, a certain value to the table that is called life.
Frustrated is the man or thing that is used for a purpose for which it wasn't created.
Another thing that can happen to you, is to catch a glimpse of your purpose and try to journey with that knowledge.
Ask Moses.
It wasn't by chance that Moses killed the Egyptian that was maltreating his brethren. There was an innate desire to save his brethren. It was his destiny. Remember desire is proof of direction. But was it time to move? Maybe!
There are some scenarios that we may have found as befitting reasons.
1. Moses was to save the children of Israel, but hadn't build capacity - soft skills, hard skills and management skills.
2. It wasn't yet time according to the prophecy that had gone forth.
3. God wanted to get him out of Egypt before he became like them, hating his own brethren.
4. God wanted to get him to a place He could meet with him.
Any other?
Purpose is not enough - you should add skills and relevant experience to purpose to make lasting impact. Try volunteering and taking online courses.
If we as humans strive for skills alone this year, without clarity of purpose, we would end up twice as confused às we began the journey.
Sit down and ask questions. To whom are your questions channelled? You!
Your mind (spirit) will bring you answers. All you need is inside of you. Seek and it will be revealed.
I watched closely and saw that the men that have made a remarkable impact on the way we live and move on Earth, are the ones that hàd a clear purpose statement - they had purpose and a set of skills to birth thàt solution kicking in their bowel.
Let's take a couple of examples:
Jesus came as the saviour, and so He didn't condemn. He came to save. So to save, He preached and empowered many with the only thing that could save them, the knowledge of the son and the belief that He came to save them from their sins - the Truth.
Steve Jobs was a very creative and innovative fellow who infused all that into technology and made it both interesting and desirable.
Mark Zuck only wanted to connect his peers in his school and ended up connecting the world. He was keen on creating a world that was open and connected. This explains why we have features like 'fan page,' 'Facebook Community' and the likes.
I didn't like that more university students were leaving school only to join the teeming population of young, frustrated and unemployed individuals. I didnt like that people did not know that they lives had been given a meaning. I didn't like to see young people who could do more, do less. This informed the birthing of GoABitFurther Africa and the academy - GoABitFurther Academy.
What's your purpose?
What solution will you birth this 2020?
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- Andrew Igbineweka
Chief Executive Director,
GoABitFurther Africa.
