APPRECIATE CONSISTENCY

When a dear one mentioned that he wanted to resign to launch into entrepreneurship. I wanted to ask one or two questions. I asked whether he already has mastered the business end of his current employment. Is he still thinking like an employee or he is now thinking like a business owner?

Do you just see how your salary is paid, or do you also now know how the funds to pay the salary are made? Are you just leaving because you are angry, or do you know how the business works? Do you know how the organisation keeps running when contracts, sales or supplies are not coming in for six months?

Some just want to launch out into ministry because they are hurt and want to prove a point. You are starting on the wrong foot.

You must be a student of systems and structures.  One of the things you must master is consistency. Systems speak about the machinery that makes a vision work.

Many have been doing a thing in increasing measures for the past thirty years. When you see such visions still standing, never badmouth them. They started as little seeds, but they have become big trees. Some have become a forest.

In Mathematics, they will always ask you to show the workings. If you do what our generation called “wuru wuru to the answer” (guesswork), surely time will expose you.

When you see a man taking time to dig the foundation, do not laugh. He knows the height that he is heading. Some houses look similar but with weak foundations. When you look at both, they look the same. However, when storms and crises hit or when tests and trials come, you will know the one that will stand the test of time and the one that boycotted quality assurance. 

Matthew 7:24-27 NLT

[24] “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. [25] Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. [26] But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. [27] When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

Before you abuse any vision in a hurry, sit down and take stock. Look at the years of investment and consistency. Appreciate the consistency.  Learn the lessons. Apply it to yourself.

temilOluwa Ola, Eruwa