Open your eyes and see yonder!
‘In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly’. (Isaiah 6 v 1-2)
You get what you see!
Isaiah lived in the era of the great King Uzziah. King Uzziah was a great man and most admirable for all the good things. But his goodness, exploits and greatness limited the vision of Isaiah. Each time Isaiah looked up, he saw king Uzziah! He was a symbol of the ultimate and became a limiting barrier and a low ceiling in the life of Isaiah. Isaiah’s real breakthrough only came on the day the low ceiling was broken. On the day king Uzziah died, Isaiah saw the open heavens. You cannot experience your breakthrough unless your limiting barriers and low ceilings are broken. Don’t allow somebody else’s exploits and greatness to overshadow your vision. He may be your hero but he is not the ultimate! Don’t wait for the sun to go down before you can let the star in you shine brighter. Don’t allow your geographical, social, academic or occupational environment dictate the furthest you can see. You have the inert potential to see beyond. See yonder! You get what you see!
With two they covered their faces
When King Uzziah died Isaiah experienced the open heavens and saw the six-winged seraphim. With two wings they covered their faces. With two wings they guarded their eyes and ears jealously. If you are going to make it in this year watch what you watch and what you hear. Stop watching things that will instill fear, doubt and a sense of diminished self worth in your life. When I was in university I used to have a problem studying in the university library. Each time I go there everybody else looked so serious as if they were really absorbing data and understanding the big books they were reading; while I was the only one struggling with data intake. It made me feel like the worst thing to ever happen in the university, until I chose to do my studies in the privacy of my own room. Exam time always proved that after all I wasn’t the worst. I closed my eyes to those that were dwarfing and diminishing my self-esteem and self-image. Don’t listen to abominable, negative and limiting talk. Guard your ears jealously you will need them at the top.
With two they covered their legs
As you determine to make it in 2010, watch your step. Your personality will earn you promotion and admiration but it’s your character that will sustain you. Watch were your feet will take you too. ‘There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death’ (Proverbs 16 v 25). Allow Him to order your footsteps this year because ‘the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord:’ (Psalm 37 v 23). Guard you character jealously like a clay pot. It takes a lot of skill to make a master piece clay-pot but once broken and shattered you can’t bring the pieces together.
With two they flew
The same God who provided the resources to safeguard the faces and the feet is the same God who provided the wings to fly. If you will not allow your king Uzziah to overshadow your vision you are going to soar; you are going to fly high. With the same determination with which you will guard your face and your feet you must stretch your wings to the winds of your potential. The eagles were made to fly and not to scrap for worms among the chickens. You were made to fly and were given the resources to make it to the heights! You have unlimited potential to achieve the extraordinary. It’s not the extraordinary who will do the impossible but the ordinary who will dare discover the unlimited potential that lies in them; the ordinary men and women who will not allow themselves to be dwarfed by those that have achieved their own successes. Potential is only discovered when tapped; challenge yourself and stretch those wings.
Open your eyes and see yonder!
Peter Mbada
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