THE BASKET

Hello friends, I trust you are breaking new grounds. ‘I am fetching water with a basket, come and see I am fetching water using a basket’, was what I heard a man shouting many years ago when I visited a village in the eastern part of Nigeria, here in Africa. He wanted everyone to see that he was doing the impossible, using a basket to carry water, truth is as impossible as it sounds, I was there and I saw it. He actually had water in the basket, and it was not leaking through the pores of the basket, your thought right now is as good as mine then. How did he do that? was the big question I asked myself. 

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” I am sure we have either heard it or used it ourselves.  It is an idiomatic phrase meaning that one should not focus all his or her resources on one hope, possibility or avenue of success or just one person. If anything should go wrong, maybe the source of your hope no longer stands or the person fails you then you are left with a broken heart. To avoid this we have been advice to put our eggs into several baskets for safekeeping or best to put your money or time or investment into several things.

Allow me to appeal to your seat of knowledge a bit, people who live their lives like this, who put their eggs in many baskets, who fill their lives with many other options when on a particular goal most often seldom attain that goal. The reason is simple, they lack focus. And one of the most important ingredient for goal attainment is focus. See the way Jesus puts it: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

He is simply talking about focus, He is saying focus on a particular goal or thing brings light to us. And you know light connotes understanding, idea and inspiration. Also light in physics talks about energy, where there is light there is energy. It simply means a focused man amongst other things receives understanding, idea, inspiration and the energy to accomplish them. It follows that filling your path to a goal with options (many baskets), will limit, if not totally empty you of understanding, ideas and inspiration and certainly the required energy to achieve your goal.

For many of us, we live our lives by having options A,B,C,D down to Z. many call it plan B. stop for  a while and think on it, you are going to distribute the energy meant to achieve a single goal into achieving many goals. Finally, every one of the goals will lack the energy needed to accomplish them, so you end up achieving nothing and your fears for not putting all your eggs in one basket comes real, you lose everything.

At this point let me introduce you to the one basket that you need, this basket will preserve your eggs. It will keep you focused on your goal. The basket is FAITH, faith prevents you from swerving to the left and right, from running from pillar to post. It keeps you on the goal, it empowers you with all the light you need to win. Faith and faith in God never fails. Faith in God always prevails. Jesus said: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

In closing I will like to say quit dating two guys because you don’t really know who will disappoint you at the end or which of them will remain faithful. Same for the guys, stop dating everything on skirt in other to find the right one. This only leads to broken hearts. Quit asking God for one thing and yet having three to five back up plans, that’s the reason you ask and don’t receive from God. Quit chasing a goal while nursing side attractions, rather distractions called plan B. Stay focus today by walking by faith, faith in God always prevails.

As you go on scaling new heights this week, remember the basket that secures all your eggs, that keeps every one of them till they hatch. Faith the basket always prevails. With this basket you will fetch water and it will not leak out, simply you will do the impossible. Faith the basket.

Go achieve!