Government’s at times fall into what political scientists call ‘the founding father syndrome.’ In many African nations, decades after independence, often the founding fathers are still talking of fighting a revolution, and in fact are still fighting a battle that they won decades earlier. In the case of Zimbabwe the country I have chosen to serve in it has been twenty-nine years. They had a vision to see their country liberated and they poured all their energy into their struggle. They locked on to it so much that they could not see anything else. They held on to it and refused to let go of their belief and vision, even when the enemy they were fighting had long since surrendered. If there was no enemy, they invented one to suit the purposes of their vision. That is at a national level, but it is also applicable at an individual level, where we can be so totally locked on to our jobs or our children, that we cannot see beyond that initial life ‘vision’ we held.
We may become like Elisha’s servant in 2 Kings 6 verse 15, who could only see the Syrian army that was encamped around them, and did not see God’s chariots of fire, until Elisha prayed to God to open his eyes. When we find that we as individuals or a nation are locked onto this narrow pattern of thought, we need to renew our minds or in the case of the nation, renew our collective mind. This process always starts one person at a time. As we ask God to ‘open our eyes’ we will learn to think outside the box which is outside our current reality. This enables us to catch and develop the multitude of possibilities flowing toward us at any given point in time. With new ideas comes new life. As we learn to paint new vivid pictures of the reality that we want, we replace the negative picture of the limiting past or those of the current reality we find ourselves in.
The circumstances we face can sometimes overwhelm us, conditioning us into a ‘silo mentality’ where we are blinded from seeing further than the walls surrounding us. When we find ourselves inundated by the demands of life, we need to open our eyes to see the harvest fields God has set for us beyond the gates of our house, our business, our city or our nation. Constant awareness of the opportunities that are before us require us to constantly be setting and resetting our vision. If the vision that we pursued has been attained we need to find a new vision. We need to go from glory to glory, and from strength to strength. If we keep doing the same things and expecting different results, we are deceived and we will keep fighting the same war over and over again.
What is your current vision? Does it energize you, is it bigger than you think is possible, are you visualizing and verbalizing it, declaring it as established, before it even is? If you are, then you will be powerfully positioned to see, seize and make use of every important opportunity and opening that lies within your vision.
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