The tower of Babel in the book of
Genesis chapter 11 is one of my
favourite Bible stories because it clearly demonstrates the power God has
deposited inside of man. As the story
clearly narrates, at that point in history the whole earth spoke one language,
which by the way signifies unity of
purpose, they said to each other let us build ourselves a city whose
capital will be in Babel and let us build a tower that will reach to the
heavens, which was the birth of a dream.
I need to say this; at that point such a project would take years to complete,
and I am very sure that it wouldn’t have been completed in their life time
speaking about the pioneers of this dream, but it would have been completed
someday if it had continued. If the distance between the sun and earth is 93, 000, 000 miles and the heavens is
still far off, that tells you that probably such a project would have been
completed in a time such as this. The question one would ask if how would they have
been able to maneuver their way through outer space, but none of that would
have been impossible because even God Himself said and I quote:” … No telling what they’ll come up with next
– they’ll stop at nothing!” (The
message translation). What happened here
is the power of a dream playing out here, the power to dream is so powerful
that God recognized that these people would stop at nothing to accomplish this
feat, not even the weather, the atmosphere, the sun, moon or whatever might have
come their way would have stopped them. That is the power we have when we dream
dreams and are determined to go the extra mile to make them a reality. The
problem with most youth of today I always say is not the issue of not having
enough finance or the opportunity to pursue their dreams and aspirations but
the lack of zeal and will to dream dreams and pursue them to completion. One of
the things that happen to a man each time he dreams is that the universe as it
were begins to respond in consonance to the signal he is sending out, that is
why all of a sudden your eyes become open to the numerous opportunities that
abound in the fulfillment of this dream of yours. All of a sudden you begin to
talk to the right people, get the right referrals, destiny helpers who have
being sent to help you accomplish such feat begin to come your way, you begin
to see better ways of accomplishing this very dream of yours, but none of these
would happen if you decide to play it safe, such is a law of the Universe; a
law that God Himself set in motion and being the Almighty He didn’t break the
rule, all He needed do was play God and disrupt the very force binding them
together to the fulfillment of this dream and that is giving them a different
voice verse seven of same chapter reads: (God speaking) “… Come, we’ll go down
and garble their speech so they won’t understand each other.” (The message translation)
and that did the magic, the unity of purpose was now absent and with it came
distractions, strife, animosity and finally division, that ended project BABEL and the rest like they say is history.
Whatever you see today was once deemed or thought impossible until it was done.
Was it not said that nobody could run a mile within a space of four minutes? But
after one man did it, over 200 persons did it. The visit to the moon was
thought impossible until July 20th 1969
when the crew of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin Jr. onboard Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Before
the law of aerodynamics came into
play, all that existed was the law of gravity
but on the 17th day of December, 1903 a new law came to play and man officially flew for the very
first time in history thanks to Orville
and Wilbur Wright. The distance
between you and the fulfillment of your dream is how far YOU are willing to go;
only you can stop yourself. Every day I wake up to face my fears and the more I
face them, the less afraid I become of them and the more feats I accomplish. It
is up to you on how you want history to remember you.
Until I come your way next time “Keep
winning!”
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