Little did Gideon
realize that God had empowered him for greatness. He was troubled about the
oppression of the Midianites, and God raised him up to deliver His people. God
sent him to war with 300 soldiers instead of the 3,000 soldiers he had prepared
earlier on, and God gave them a resounding victory. The God who empowered
Gideon for greatness at that time is still the same today and for ever. He is
still in the business of empowering His children to do exploits for Him
Hard
work, determination and total dependence on God can change anybody’s destiny in
life. No one is born poor, neither is any born great. Everybody (old and young)
is complaining about the situation of things in our land. The challenge to all
of us who are reading this article is this: Let it be a commitment on your part
to improve our beloved nation and move on to greater heights in the committee
of nations, by preparing ourselves with the fear of God in our hearts, and be
determined to love this nation. Let us be patriots! A lot of people do not love
this nation. We want to “check out of the country.” Remember, other people
built up their own countries with, hard work, honesty, integrity and love for
the good of their fatherland. Let us wake up to our responsibilities! And the
Lord will help us. Amen!
As a country we have
produced thousands of professionals, be they medical doctors, civil and
mechanical engineers, teachers, architects, lawyers, and what have you, yet
whenever we need the services of these professionals we will suddenly find out
that a number of them can not solve our problems. We can not trust most of our
medical experts, so the rich and powerful people run to Asia, Europe and other
countries for medical care. Is this not an anomaly? We even spend so much money
as a nation to bring in expatriate engineers to build our roads, in fact
sometimes to build our corporate buildings. What exactly is the problem?
Just
as God had empowered Gideon to be great but he knew it not until God pushed him
out of his shell, I believe that God has empowered every one of us towards
greatness. But we have to change our mind-set, work hard and make up our minds
to become great indeed. God needs us to bring about solutions to the religious,
economic and political systems of this nation. Everybody must look inwards,
have sober reflections and then declare to himself or herself that, “other
people have excelled in life, I will not be an exception.” So I say unto you my
readers, Work hard, have godly fear and strive for Excellence, I repeat, Strive
for Excellence.
