INSPIRATION ‘R’ US

Brooded over this phrase all weekend long and it just amazing how one phrase even though is not a complete sentence can make a whole lot of sense. There is a popular adage in my language that goes "Ibere ki nse onise, af'eni to ba f'oriti d'opin" literally, it means that "The starter is not the owner of the work but whoever follows through the end" in real English, it simply means; "The end justifies the means". Which basically is saying; it is not about how we started, where we started, when we started or why we started; it is about how we finished. Did you finish better than you started, worst off than you started or you didn't even finish at all. Even the bible said in many different verses that the "Later shall be greater than the former". As much as the beginning is important, it is even more important that you end much more better and greater than you started.

There is another popular saying that "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great"; corroborating the fact that it is not just about starting, it is about actually finishing what is started. It is about staying focus and determined to finish what you have started. Many people have the habit of actually giving up when something is not working as planned, or when there is a detour to an originally estimated planned work but what we don't understand is that giving up is never a way out, giving up is telling the devil that he has won. Giving up is letting your challenges take over your victory and letting defeat be the order of the day.

I am very much guilty of these things mentioned as well; a great example is this blog; when I originally started in 2015, I had a vision in mind of the kind of crowd I hoped to draw their attention and how much I wished the attendance and subscriber grew every month but when things didn't go as planned, I lost track and faith of the blog ever growing so I gave up writing and the essence that this blog was started in the first place but the mistake I made was I let that determine how I handled my approach to the blog. But like my opening statement; "the end justifies the means". It is not about how you started or why you started, it is about your commitment to ensure that you completely complete what you started because you will never find out the outcome if you don't finish.

So, what project do we have in our hands? What ideas have God given to us that we started but are yet to finish for the fear of not knowing the outcome? Don't let the enemy deter you from the success you should achieve by giving up and abandoning your project. You can finish what you started, matter of fact, you can finish very well. So, get up and go FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED!!!!

Have a wonderful Monday!!!