Strive Masiyiwa King Solomon built a magnificent temple, which had been there for several hundred years. It had been central to the way of ...
Strive Masiyiwa
King Solomon built a magnificent temple, which had been there for several hundred years. It had been central to the way of life of the Israelites for as long as anyone could remember. But when war came, it was completely destroyed, and lay in ruins for several generations, more than 70 years.
Then a visionary priest called Ezra, came back from exile and began to build it again. He had limited resources, and did his best with what he had. Then he called a ceremony of all the people to celebrate its opening. The people who came were made of two groups:
-There were some old men, who had been alive at the time of Solomon's, magnificent, original temple. When they looked, and saw the renovated temple, they remembered what they had lost, and they wept.
-Then there were young people, who were born at a time of the empty ruined, ugly temple, and when they looked at what Ezra had done they too wept at seeing this magnificent new building, where a ruin had once stood.
The Chief Tentmaker said:
"The things which were written afore time, were written for our learning".
There is something deep and profound, in the story, I have told about Ezra:
- when you SEE something, which is not right, you can spend a lot of time complaining bitterly, about those who created this situation, and the mistakes they made. You can rail in anger about the powers, in the world, over which you have no control. You can exercise false spirituality, as an excuse for inaction.....it will never change anything!
-But you can be an Ezra, and just go out and DO what you can.... Ezra believed God would help him... But only if he showed initiative.
Secondly, there will always be those who either hanker after a past, or over what could have been.... The bible says of this, that "it is not wise".
How we see things around us, is always a choice.
The Tentmaker does not wait for someone else to act, on an issue of concern. He or she always looks to themselves, first. They are restless until they have done something: no matter what!
They don't say, to themselves, "if only, so and so, could do something", but rather "what can I do?"
Always remember that mentality has nothing to do with age. Choose to be like Ezra, and the generation of those who see opportunity, even in a ruined situation; and then go out to build, with what they have, even if it seems like nothing.
To be continued…
(Washington DC 2014)
King Solomon built a magnificent temple, which had been there for several hundred years. It had been central to the way of life of the Israelites for as long as anyone could remember. But when war came, it was completely destroyed, and lay in ruins for several generations, more than 70 years.
Then a visionary priest called Ezra, came back from exile and began to build it again. He had limited resources, and did his best with what he had. Then he called a ceremony of all the people to celebrate its opening. The people who came were made of two groups:
-There were some old men, who had been alive at the time of Solomon's, magnificent, original temple. When they looked, and saw the renovated temple, they remembered what they had lost, and they wept.
-Then there were young people, who were born at a time of the empty ruined, ugly temple, and when they looked at what Ezra had done they too wept at seeing this magnificent new building, where a ruin had once stood.
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| What Do You See? (Part 2). |
"The things which were written afore time, were written for our learning".
There is something deep and profound, in the story, I have told about Ezra:
- when you SEE something, which is not right, you can spend a lot of time complaining bitterly, about those who created this situation, and the mistakes they made. You can rail in anger about the powers, in the world, over which you have no control. You can exercise false spirituality, as an excuse for inaction.....it will never change anything!
-But you can be an Ezra, and just go out and DO what you can.... Ezra believed God would help him... But only if he showed initiative.
Secondly, there will always be those who either hanker after a past, or over what could have been.... The bible says of this, that "it is not wise".
How we see things around us, is always a choice.
The Tentmaker does not wait for someone else to act, on an issue of concern. He or she always looks to themselves, first. They are restless until they have done something: no matter what!
They don't say, to themselves, "if only, so and so, could do something", but rather "what can I do?"
Always remember that mentality has nothing to do with age. Choose to be like Ezra, and the generation of those who see opportunity, even in a ruined situation; and then go out to build, with what they have, even if it seems like nothing.
To be continued…
(Washington DC 2014)
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