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FOCUS ON THE GOAL

"therefore we also,since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses ,let us lay aside every weight,and the sin which so easily
ensnares us,and let us run with endurance the race that is set before
us,looking unto Jesus,the author and finisher of our faith,who for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross,despising the shame,and
has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2

Future

Everyone is going somewhere and choices are being made everyday which
lead us closer to or away from that place where we want to be.a
popular saying says "A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step".So
as we live, everything that we do or refuse to do has an effect on our
short term goals which make up our long term dreams.Life can not be
lived passively,even if you lock yourself in the house and stay alone,you have
got to be active doing something productive or even stupid,something
which brings the aftermath consequences you have to handle.Many times
we know what we want but don't know how to get it,which is very
dangerous sometimes seeing that we may take a wrong way.I like this
song by casting crowns 'Does any body hear' the song lyrics say she has been
running 100 miles per hour in the wrong direction .Let us say you have
always wanted to be a civil engineer but when you applied for civil
engineering at Makerere University,you were given business which you
did or are doing.In that case a good course is being done by a wrong
person and there are few chances that you will perform your job in
business well.

Sometimes we know how to get what we want but we just can't afford the
cost we are required to pay,the cost in monetary
value,discipline,focus,endurance,perseverance etc.
When we first conceive a dream in our mind,we believe it with a lot
of faith however big it may be, because we have learned that when a
dream is within our ability,then it is not good enough.A meaningful
dream is meant to be bigger than ourselves requiring faith in a power
greater than ourselves and determination enough to encounter any
obstacles, as it is written in the good book that 'the just shall live
by faith and not by sight'.
In that infant stage of our dream we
committee ourselves and sometimes make pledges never to drift away
from that which we consider to be our high calling.For almost all of
us,back in the days there are things we once aspired for,some
entertained ideas of being music artists,preachers,inspirational
speakers etc.And by then you thought nothing would ever divert you to
something else because that is where your heart was.

When Jesus described faith (mark 4:30-32),he likened it to a mastered
seed which is sown in mixed feelings of doubt and hope but afterwards
it germinates,surviving natural hazards and human activities, it grows
into a very big tree and gives food to the birds of the air,a home for
the beasts of the field,a shade for human beings.
As dreamers we also have to be aware of the dream
killers,circumstances which happen to us unexpectedly,some time back I
have a guy we used to work with in some odd job and he spoke good
English than I expected him to speak so I was compelled to ask him about
his level of education.He told me how he was very bright in school but
while he was in form 2 he lost his father who was serving in the
army,he told me how he tried to work odd jobs,paid his tuition up to form 4
but because of the dependence on him from home he was unable to go any
further. Negative people will come and tell you how your dream is
nothing more than a joke:

Moses kipsiro World Championships in Athletics - Berlin 2009 -

Moses kipsiro said when he worn the 2010 commonwealth games 5000 meter
race gold in Delhi India,he received an official call from his
excellency the president of the republic of Uganda encouraging him to go
for the next 10000 meters,and he did come back home with two gold
medals.We may have few or no people to support us in our journey to
success,but there is no doubt we will have many who will be there to
tell us how it is impossible,how we are stupid for doing or not doing
something.In such moments we need to encourage ourselves in the Lord
like the ancient King David of Isreal.(1 Samuel 30:6)
The apostle Paul of the bible considered life as a race we have to
participate in.He said

"Not that I have already attained ,or am already perfected;but I press
on,that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of
me.Brethren I do not count myself to have apprehended ;but one thing I
do,forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead,I press towards the goal for the prize of
the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.Therefore let us, as many as
are mature,have this mind;and if in anything you think otherwise God
will reveal even this to you....... " philipians 3:12-16

Someone has said that

"Obstacles are those things we see when we set our eyes off the goal."

If you fix your eyes on what you want and not on what you don't
want,then though the obstacles may be there,you will be able to beat
them,even if they put you down and they mock you,you will be able to
come up again.You know they say

"Failure is an opportunity to begin afresh."

Micah 7:8 "Do not rejoice over me,my enemy;when I fall,I will
arise;when I sit in Darkness,The Lord will be a light to me."

When a seed of vision is planted in us,we receive it with joy but
because as Jesus described in the parable of the sower,sometimes that
seed is destroyed by many things,by the pleasures and hardships of
this world.Let us pray to God that he will keep us focusing on that
calling, which is to be like himself .It just reminds me of a Swahili
song we used to sing back then

"Tuta yimba yimba tu fanane naye (wewill keep singing and be like him)".

when Jesus came to his desciples
walking on water,they were afraid thinking it was a spirit,but the
restless peter said "if it is you command that I may also walk on
water" and Jesus asked him to come,he walked very well for sometime
while focusing unto Jesus,but when he began thinking about the storm
which was coming,he began sinking.Jesus should be our main focus.The
apostle paul said "I can do all things with him who strengthens me.One
preacher pastor David Kiganda said "how you get it is how you maintain
it".If you got that dream by faith,you have got to make it bigger by
faith alone.
It is this mentality Jesus had when he was here to save human kind.He
knew he had to die for the sins of the world, when the devil came in
to tempt him promising him the world,he knew there was something
bigger than satan's counterfeit promises.The bible says because of his
endurance up to death he was given a name which is above each and
every name.

Isiah 40:31 "But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength
;They shall mount up on wings like eagles,they shall run and not be
weary,They shall walk ant not faint."

As the years go by,sometimes we will feel like we are lost and have
failed,but if you belive in God,you should always remember that God is
not yet done with you,you are supposed to be where you are.The bible
says those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength like
eagles.Eagles are known to fly too high and travel long distances,but
also they are Known for their perfect sight,it is said that it's sight
is 8 X that of a human.

the eagle's eye

When the bible says we shall renew our strength like eagles when we
wait upon the Lord,it means that faith we had for the dreams we once
had can be revived again.Moses of the bible was living a good life
with all the good things one would ever desire,but one day by a
fearless selfless faith he decided to follow his dream of defending
the helpless weak people.
Hebrews 11:24-27

"By faith Moses,when he became of age,refused to be called the son of
the pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,esteeming the
reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt;for he
looked to the reward.By faith he forsook Egypt,not fearing the wrath
of the king;for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible."

Though at that moment Moses felt that by faith he had all it takes to
save his people the Isrealites who were serving as salves in Egypt,God
was pleased with Moses' dream but knew it wasn't the right time.God
caused him to flee from Egypt to some remote place where he lived for
forty years doing things so different from his original dream.When due
time had come,his dream was revived,and the bible says

"by faith they passed through the red sea as by dry land,whereas the
Egyptians,attempting to do so,were drowned." hebrews 11:29

It is painful to nurse unfulfilled dreams and hopes,sometimes you may
be tempted to find someone to blame for what you think are failures as
a way to comfort yourself,you know people tend to feel better when they have someone to blame,but who knows,may be it is not just the right time.If you wait upon the Lord,you could be that
musian,preacher,doctor,author,mother,father or any thing you once
wanted to be.
I hope you fix your eyes on the goal.