Lofty Heights, Lofty Hearts

Motivation Monday: Lofty Heights, Lofty Hearts

The second stanza of the Nigerian national anthem is a prayer addressed to the God of creation, to direct our noble path, to guide our leaders right, to help our youth the truth to know, to grow in love and honesty, living just and true, to the end that we may attain great and lofty heights in nation building.

The last couple of weeks gave one much to think about concerning our great nation. By the way, I'm a Nigerian and I love my country. I desire to see that prayer in the anthem come to pass in the lives of more and more Nigerians, we need not many more prayers for our nation than that.

So, thinking about Nigeria and thinking about that prayer, one phrase, 'Great lofty heights' sticks out for me. It came to me that the writers of the song were yearning for great lofty hearts in the stanza, hearts of nobility, justice, wisdom, honesty, integrity, and knowledge, guided and visionary hearts.

This is because, without it being in the heart, the eyes will never see it. Jesus Christ said, a good or bad man, out of the good or bad treasures of his heart, brings forth either good or bad things. If the heart is weak in nobility, you can't force nobility out of it. If it is full of understanding , it naturally exudes wisdom. A heart full of foolishness can't produce wisdom.

What we see today, is the result of the state of our hearts and if we must see better days, we must load our hearts with the things we want to see.
Jesus Christ also said, make a tree good and the fruits will be good, because a good tree can not bring forth bad fruits which apostle Paul interpreted as walking in the spirit and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh. A good tree and a fruits are mutually exclusive. Everything produces after its kind. If the tree can be made good, you are sure to have it produce good fruits. It's a matter of the heart.

So what have you loaded into your heart? Do you desire lofty heights? Then go for a lofty heart. The hearts full of impossibilities will produce nothing. The heart that believes brings forth things that eyes had not seen. The things prepared for us are in that realm but it takes believing hearts to get there.

A liberal soul shall be made fat said King Solomon. When you have a heart that can accommodate what others see as impossible, then you are ready to take mountains.

Caleb, a man said to have a different spirit, even at 85 was taking mountains, his strength never abated for over 45 years because his heart was indicting great and lofty heights.
Don't be like those who would say what God wants for them is impossible. If God had promised you a land, then go and fight for it, it's yours and you'll get it. Take it to heart that whatever is holding those things now is holding it in waiting for you.
God kept the throne of David inside Goliath, so Goliath couldn't have been too strong for David to take down. God kept the honey belonging to Samson inside a young lion, the lion couldn't have been too dangerous for Samson to take down.

If the height is in your heart, it won't be too high for you to attain. Don't strive for things below the heights God has placed within you. Don't shortchange yourself, it's there for the taking, if you can accommodate it within you.

As for my nation Nigeria, I look forward to our hearts being enlarged enough to accommodate the lofty heights we were made to attain beyond election rigging and mediocre productivity of government. I look forward to a new vision of great things, when we'll conquered the limitations of selfishness and Liliputian mentality. When we'll return to the times of breakthroughs and trailblazing beyond the present frontiers of innovations and technology and create a better life for our people. I look forward to the end of celebrating mediocrity in leadership to a new day of great accomplishments that will lift the poorest of us to a place of envy among the people of the world.

It is possible, if we allow the lofty heights we sing about to expand our hearts to accommodate it. We aren't wimps, we must go for the extra large sizes that can fit who we were made to be.

Good morning, it's a great day and a beautiful week!