Don’t Flinch and Don’t Sit on a Laurel

No matter how debilitating your current circumstance, you cannot afford to give up hope. A life without hope is one lived without a vision, a blueprint for a better tomorrow. Every vision is costly if it has to be transformed into a mission and ultimately becomes mission accomplished.

Former President Nelson Mandela epitomized patience and tenacity; he could have missed it if he had given up hope of freedom. He pressed on for many years with no end in sight. At the end he moved from jail house to state house. We salute you Madiba! A secret that he mastered was never to flinch in the face of adversity even one that sought to obliterate his very existence. He was willing to sacrifice for the greater good. It is never easy to rise for your convictions. There seem to be someone, somewhere and somehow think there are more noble ideas than your ideals. They are many purveyors of interposition. Don’t flinch in their face.

No matter how good your accomplishments are, don’t stop there. Use your success as a launching pad; expend knowledge learned from the previous victory for bigger and even greater challenges. Most people sit on laurels because they think it took them so long to be where they only dreamed of. A constant look for greater challenges and better achievements should be etched out in your mind and spirit.

Greatness surrounds us all the time and just merely waiting our recognition or embrace. One such person who was a super achiever yet did not rest on his laurels was Jesus of the Bible. He could have bragged about turning dirty dish washing water into the best wine ever at a wedding, raising Lazarus from the dead, healing a woman from an issue of blood or opening the eyes of a few blind people. But he kept on pushing forward because he knew the best is yet to come. To him receiving the kingdom was more important than anything else.