Leadership Tuneup: Your Year For Opportunities

Faith Incentives

Your Year For Opportunities

Charles R. Swindoll is quoted as saying, “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” The problem with these opportunities is the fact that for many of us they will be missed! 2009 was a disappointing year for many and because of this; most have lost their ability to dream.

Often when one door closed—if we are not careful, we will stop looking for another door. Helen Keller put it this way, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” The mandate from Scripture is that, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me.”

Our President remarked during one of his speeches, “Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

How about you? Will you be harden or shamed into inaction? Will you miss the opportunities that God has for you, because things did not workout like you thought they would in 2009—or even before 2009. A great cloud of people that have never given up surrounds us! Our Lord, for the hope set before Him endured the cross, and we know how that turned out!

Your resurrection awaits you!