Finish your assignment

By The NewsDay | Jan. 5, 2013 | 5 Min read

As is always natural with the beginning of any year, we have received 2013 with open arms and entered it with new hope, zeal and vigour.

As is always natural with the beginning of any year, we have received 2013 with open arms and entered it with new hope, zeal and vigour. Sermon of the week with Pastor Erasmus Makarimayi

Maybe 2012 was not that good for you and you are hoping that this year will be better. For some, last year was exceptionally good and they want to keep the momentum and even do better.

New Year resolutions are thus made against the backdrop of either dissatisfaction with achievements of the past or ray of hope generated by promises of the previous year and determination generated by inner conviction that the future will be better.

Desiring a better future is right and is proof that there is life in you. While you seek a better life, please finish the projects that you embark on.

It is a biblical principle of doing a complete job. Creation shows how God did a perfect and complete work. Jesus finished His assignment. He declares in John 17:4, “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.”

Remember how much you curse the city council and Zesa for digging up pits or trenches to repair broken pipes and underground cables and leave the pits and trenches uncovered. How many uncovered pits or trenches are in your life? With all what you have started and abandoned before logical conclusion you probably have no space for new work.

Pick up the abandoned work and finish it. You have heard that starting is not as important as finishing. This year refuse to endanger human life with unfinished dreams and vision.

We have mentioned it countless times in this column that you have to involve God in the crafting of your life’s blueprint and should honour God by not involving Him in half-baked projects. Glorify Him by finishing your assignment. Finish that degree, that house you are building or whatever you are pursuing.

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There are many factors that will determine the realisation of your dream and I will touch a few of them. Write down your dream or vision no matter how sharp your memory is.

Recite it over and over again in your mind and receive it in your spirit. By it create the future you want and embark on it. Eleanor Roosevelt says, “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” Why wait, get your pen and paper or your electronic device. Bring into your circle people that will complete the matrix of your destiny. Know the role each person close to you plays. There are people you should not hang out with because they contaminate your vision.

There are people that can speak you out of your dream by amplifying your inadequacies and impossibility of your dream. Look for mentors that are not shortsighted. Be encouraged by Mark Twain’s words, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Seek knowledge in the things you want to pursue. If you are a farmer get enough knowledge about the weather, soils, animals and crops. Research and go to school, college or university. Hosea 4:6a says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” You cannot advance beyond your knowledge. If you are wise, get people with knowledge and expertise around you to do what you can’t do.

The problems that you have been facing all along can only be dealt with if you have new knowledge. “Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” — Albert Einstein.

Remove procrastination. Don’t spend your whole life calculating the risk; launch out. Don’t do tomorrow what you can do today.

Sometimes you may never be convinced that you are ready. Fear may tell you to wait a bit and it comes with all logic and sounds reasonable.

Time is precious, don’t waste it. Roger Babson encourages you thus, “Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” Embark on the dream, execute your plan. It is not enough to have the best plan on earth that is not acted upon.

You will be beaten by someone who would have launched out under intuition with no plan at all. Digest the following words. “Vision without execution is hallucination.” —Thomas Edison. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” — Beverly Sills.

This time around, engage God and if God is on your side no one and nothing can be against you. Pull your sleeves and get down to work and finish the assignment. Launch out to the deep, you are going somewhere. All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible. [email protected] Follow Pastor Makarimayi on www.twitter.com/PEMAKARIMAYI and Facebook Partake of the open invitation. Refuse mediocrity. Don’t wait for too late, let not procrastination be part of you. Study your past and do things differently. Use paths that lead to good results. On 31 December 2013, let us all be celebrating and thanking God for a good year. Don’t just sit, take action. Even if you are not proactive and spend time crying and blaming others, you will still be one year older. The one that decides to embark on a one year course and the other that thinks it is not time yet will both be one year older. The question is; do you want to be older with something or nothing to your name? Let the following words of wisdom stir you and get you to act. If you are of low self esteem, Betty Reese says, “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” If a mere mosquito can locate you, surely God knows you and you are not a second class being. Alan Cohen believes, “If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.” Go out and manifest the glory of God. According to Thomas Carlyle every woman and man has a coward and hero in her/his soul.” Listen to the hero in you and grab your promise. Don’t wait for extra time, use the allocated time wisely. Don’t cry foul at the end of the year. Grab the opportunity, you are going somewhere.

All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible. [email protected] Follow Pastor Makarimayi on www.twitter.com/PEMAKARIMAYI and Facebook