OPPORTUNITIES!
I confess. I’m a very hardheaded individual. My “hardheadedness” has caused me to neglect many opportunities. And, as always, these are recognized by our infamous hindsight. It’s in meditating on hindsight that we become conscious of our patterns of negligence and inconsistencies.
Opportunities are more than advantageous chances or favorable conditions they are life tutors. We learn a great deal from them whether we miss them or act on them. Below, I listed a few lessons that I’ve learned from opportunities. Be warned, some are very basic – hence my “hardheadedness.” But somehow, it’s the fundamental ones that we seem to always ignore!
- Opportunities aren’t prejudice or bias. They’ll adhere to whoever clings to them.
- Opportunities are momentary; they have a short shelf life.
- Opportunities of a lifetime must be lived out within the lifetime of the opportunity. (I picked that one up somewhere)
- The seed bed to opportunities is preparation. It’s only through preparation that we recognize divine opportunities.
- Opportunities attract other opportunities.
- Opportunities build of each other. We build our lives on a firm foundation of preparation and each floor built is simply a leveraged and stewarded opportunity.
- Opportunities don’t usually come in big shiny packages, rather in the insignificant and mundane.
- The prepared eye has the ability to recognize an opportunity but the prepared soul has the capability to leverage them.
- It’s in the common and mundane that great opportunities are emerge.
- Opportunities will always show up dressed in work clothes!
Feel free to add you own…
Good points Pastor. So true especially number 7, which sometimes we loose an opportunity because it does not look like we want it to look like. Thank you for your continual teaching.
Well Pastor we know that if we let opportunities go by we will never get into the kingdom. so when they come up we have to jump on them.
Pastor when there is a opportunity we must jump on them to get to the kingdom of God.
We most be quick to act when opportunities come our way. I have learn that opportunities come in short time spans and if you don’t take them, then they will go away and you will lose time, energy and resources until the next one come up. We most value the opportunity and take them if is profitable to us.