Have you ever missed an opportunity to do something you have been thinking a lot about and you felt missing the opportunity means you can't regain it again or it means you have missed on that particular thing you have been having in mind. well, I want us to start rethinking on lost opportunities. Not all lost blessings or opportunities are bad or mean bad, some are an escape route for us without us knowing. We complain, cry, and ask God why he made us miss out on the opportunity without us asking why it happened. we are quick to query God, ask questions and cry to him without having a second thought about it. We do not think if missing the opportunity is a blessing in disguise or God trying to avert a problem for you.
I recently read a story online and decided to write on it and share as well so we can all understand and begin to have a rethink on missed opportunity and not totally feeling like God doesn’t like us when opportunities are lost. So, here goes the story:
Three years ago, a friend of mine who is ‘late’ now was not mobilized for the Nysc program in time.
There were mistakes from his department involving computational errors. He met with the ‘rightful heads’ both in the department and in the senate.
They told him, he will be mobilized with the second batch. But it didn’t go well with him. He did some running around and less than a week; I saw him having his registration in one of the cyber cafe close to the campus.
I and a friend Afolabi Afolarin asked him how he had gone about it.
He said, he can’t afford not go for service with the present batch. So he’d to go extra miles getting it done.
We congratulated him.
We congratulated him.
He went to the camp. But he never return from the camp alive.
He died on his way back home.
He died on his way back home.
We all mourn him. He was a great lad.
Afterwards, I took to heart; the initial delay with the computational error and I realized that…
In life, often times when we loose some things that we really do want, we feel very terrible and act like God has forgotten us; but the truth is, if God gives us everything we want, we might end up regretting for the rest of our lives.
Sometimes lost opportunities are simply escape routes.
Don’t brood over the past.
Don’t brood over the past.
Some still get so sad about their past relationship…just maybe, your ex would have been a terrible spouse.
It would have been a fake admission or visa, maybe you would have lost your life in that place, you can never tell!
Only God sees the end from the beginning. Appreciate him for where you are now, and thank him for some doors that do not open..
Someday you will understand.
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