Preparation, Vital to Opportunity

In our year end staff meeting I quickly touched on some introspective points we as people need to focus on to make us better as a distance learning team.  These characteristics can also be used to make us better husbands, wives, sons, daughters or ministry workers etc.  The specific characteristic I touched on in the meeting was “prepare for opportunity before it comes”.  What you do today really does effect what happens tomorrow.  I could continue this and spin it into why we should prepare so we are better as an organization, but instead I want to take that principle and spin it so you grasp for other areas of your life other than just work.  God really does have a plan for your life, but He also expects us to prepare for the time when He is ready to move within us.  If we are lazy, complacent or disobedient to what He is refining us for, He will not be able to move you into that opportunity that He has waiting.  Consider Noah, he had to build an ark that took between 80 and 120 years of preparation before God could move and fulfill His plan in Noah’s life.  Read more