WHAT CAN YOU SEE?

I learn't a very vital lesson last weekend. We were waiting for a friend to come meet us so we could leave our location, because he does not know the city, when he called the first time with the description of where he was, a friend asked "What can you see?", as he described buildings and landmarks, it took only few minutes to get to where he was. It then hit me that almost all the Prophet in the Bible who had encounter with God was faced with this same question "What do you see?" or "What can you see?", and in the case of Abram (who later became Abraham), it was "...as far as your eyes can see..."

Had my friend not provided detailed description of what he was looking at from where he was standing, it would have been very difficult for us to locate him that easy and fast. Had the men of old who had dealings with God not see anything, I am very sure we will not have heard or read about them or the exploits they wrought. In the case of my friend, it applied literally, as per his location could only be determined by what he could physically see which we know but in the case of those men who we seek to find what they found, it was more of a metaphor. God wanted to know how their minds envisage things, He wanted to know how far they can see, how focused they are and how deep their level of understanding was so that He will know what kind, level and degree of task to entrust them with (that is why they had different levels of calling, challenges and task, some of them got to be called 'Friend of God' another 'a man after God's Heart', another 'the apple of God's eye' and so on) all based on how far they have seen and ran with the vision. You will bear me witness that all through history, every great leader or individual only got as far as he saw himself get. 

God cannot give you what you have not seen for yourself, He gives  each man according to his abilities. Just as you cannot give a toddler bones to crack and you cannot give a man pregnancy to bear, so you cannot give a man who lacks that particular ability the task of executing it. Imagine walking into a hospital and the nurse tells you that I am the Doctor who is to perform your heart transplant when you and I were course mates in Engineering school, your first instinct will be to flee the hospital immediately because you know I have not been given the training or skills by virtue of the fact that I did not see myself performing a surgery (even though we all wanted to become "Medical Doctors" back then, I grew up to realize that I don't have the stomach to handle blood and sick people). 

Look, you can never and will never get to a destination you did not set out to go. you can never reach Lagos when you've set out your journey for Aba, it is not because you don't know the road to Lagos or cannot change your direction, it is because you've not seen yourself in Lagos, you simply don't have any reason to be in Lagos, at least not when you have something to do in Aba. I recall the case of Elisha and his servant who thought the army of the Syrians who had encompassed them where more than them, Elisha prayed a simple prayer "Lord, I pray thee, Open his eyes, that he may see", when the servant's eyes were opened, he saw the mountains filled with horses and chariots, I am yet to here about that servant. 

Helen Keller, one of the most popular blind and dumb persons to ever  change the cause of history once said "Of all the sense, sight must be the most delightful", even though she meant the physical sight, the visionary sight is what you and I need. That sight can be termed Ideas, Imagination and whatever name Vision has just as Albert Einstein puts it "imagination is more important than knowledge. knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world"

Where you want to go, how far you want to go, what you want to achieve are all tired down to what you can see, if you can SEE it, leave the "HOW" and "WHEN" to God. Blind Bartimaeus had only one request "that I may SEE"...

WHAT CAN YOU SEE?

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