Opportunities: Gotten, Given & Grabbed
Humans always want to prove themselves to the world. We want to attain immortality through fame. We achieve something, actuate something, afford something, etc. only to prove ourselves worthy and powerful.
How could we get this...?
We need an opportunity
Opportunities are of three types
# Opportunities Gotten
# Opportunities Given
# Opportunities Grabbed
We could people experience all these three in their life of struggle. For all these three can vary according to the time and according to the persons.
# Opportunities Gotten
This is the first ever encounter in our life. One needs to be very careful in dealing with this. Because this will lead to other great opportunities. But no problem if you lose it. Initially people who get Opportunities are chosen randomly for that. Hence the first level needs a keen attention in making this to the maximum.
Jesus' first opportunity came to him when he was at the wedding ceremony at Cana. Though He refused in the beginning yet he found the right time to glorify God. He used the opportunity gotten.
# Opportunities Given
People find you better when you are actually better in doing justice to your opportunities. Yet this also varies according to persons. A person who refused to give a chance to another is actually sick of his ownself. Nobody in this world is perfect hence giving an opportunity is always a better way to try for a new one. A beautiful saying will prove this statement: " Known Devil is better than Unknown Angel."
Jesus was given (invited) to many places to do miracles. God the Father has given Him plenty of opportunities to perform miracles, show signs etc.
We could see them during
- woman suffered due to hemorrhage
- plea of Canaanite woman
- feeding the multitude
- calming the storm
- healing the demoniac
- curing the sick etc.
# Opportunities Grabbed
This area is a little peculiar one. We need to work on to attain this area. Grabbing the opportunity is not so simple. We need to compete with many factors. Perhaps they are the culture, caste, religion, society, age, advancements, etc. Grabbing can also interpreted as taking or volunteering. In order to grab the opportunity we need prudence as the best source of attaining it and focus, interest & hardwork as the means of fulfilling it.
Jesus also grabbed certain opportunities to glorify God.
- The very birth to become human
- Explaining the Kingdom amidst doctors of the Church
- Baptism by John the Baptist
- Conversation with Samaritan woman
- Eating with Zacchaeus
- Cleansing the Temple
- Forgiving the Good Thief
- Death even on a Cross
Thus, achieving great heights is only a matter of how we use the various opportunities.
Let's Pray:
O Lord, Get my life in You by Your Given love so as to Grab me in Your Heart. Amen.
