So, I just concluded a job working as a Checker for WAEC. I'd better explain what this means. Just like most people, prior to this period I didn't even know such a job existed.
Now, after WAEC has been concluded, there are two categories of workers sought for; Examiners who mark the scripts and checkers who acts as fail-safes in case of any errors that may have occurred during the marking process. They ensure that the scores reflect accurately on the score sheet. Its quite a critical job as there is no room for error.
To get the job, you have to apply and then take a test. If you pass, you get a follow up text.
Now on the day we were to start, I went there in faith. Prior to this, I hadn't gotten any follow up text even though my sister had. I was quite sure of my performance in the test and I figured, if she got in then I most certainly must have as well whether I got the notification or not. My family encouraged me to just go and thank God I did because along the way, I got a notification to start the job as a checker.
I hadn't ever done this kind of job before but I thought it would be pretty easy and I'd be back home on or before 2pm. Boy! I was shocked that day!
We didn't think to eat because of that train of thought and so we rushed down there thinking it would just be for a few hours.
We ended up getting home at about 7p.m. At that point, I was so close to exhaustion. Staring at papers all day, doing calculations on an empty tummy, it's no wonder when I got back I fell on the bed to awaken by 12a.m. and eat my first real meal for the day or should I say the day before.
By the second day, I was convinced I couldn't handle it anymore. I even told everyone at home I wasn't going back there come hell or high water, hahahaha. I must sound like a wimp, I know. At the time I just didn't care, my body was simply too exhausted and looking for a way out.
By Monday, however, I was back at work. I would say I got better at handling the stress. As the days droned on, I kept reiterating the words, "I can't wait to be done". I'd console myself with the fact that I was gonna get paid at the end of it and really it was just for a short while. That right there was my light at the end of the tunnel, lol.
While drawing out the map for this story, you know the one scripture that kept reverberating in my head? "He, Jesus for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God".
I realized that one of the things that gives you the strength to push through in the midst of chaos is the Peace you can see ahead. It's the Light you can see breaking out just at the very end of the tunnel.
Few months ago, while visiting with some of my best friends, we kept painting pictures of how we were gonna sneak up on each other and drop our kids unannounced at each others homes so we could take off on a vacation with hubby, lol. We can be quite mischievous and might I add, there were some really good plans mentioned.
At another instance I told them that we're gonna be key speakers at major conferences and we chorused an Amen to that.
I'm trying to create futuristic images with these two scenarios so you can imagine what motivates to push through.
I realized that often times, we initiate or start up something whether a relationship, a business, an idea or even new rules without any clear view of it in future terms.
You start something that you can't see a future in, you go into a career you can't even visualize the future, you begin a relationship you can't even consider it in remote futurity, you introduce a business you know you have no future plans for. It's no wonder when the little storm, winds and quakes come, the whole building crumbles like a house built on faulty foundations.
When God spoke to Abraham, He told Him, "As far as your eyes can see." I can bet Abraham wasn't thinking about just the expanse of land right in front of him but he must have engaged his minds eye and seen ahead, 2000 light-years from that time of how his seed would cover and rule the earth.
It's no wonder it was testified of him, that he obtained the promise through faith; calling the things that be not as though they were.
That's how powerful the depth of your vision can take you. If you don't see a future then do NOT engage. It's the Joy you can picture ahead that gives you the strength to face the scorn and shame of the cross.
Come on then, what are you passionate about? What dreams have you laid up in your heart?
Now, close your eyes and allow yourself roam, "AS FAR AS YOUR EYES CAN SEE!"