Written by Uyoyou
Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Break the ceiling
over your head, your life no matter what it is. Ceilings should be broken when
they become a stumbling block to progress. A ceiling over a person’s life may
not necessarily be the physical ceiling placed in houses to shield the direct
heat of the sun on the roof from the house.
A ceiling may be a
person’s attitude, character or behavior. Issachar was initially content to serve
as a slave because he saw a pleasant land. The pleasantness of the land made
him lose interest in moving to his own land, his own place of divine purpose
where he was divinely ordained to serve as a leader in Israel; providing divine
direction to the people to carry out divine purpose following divine timing.
But Issachar preferred the pleasant land. Unfortunately, Issachar’s preference
put a ceiling on him and his descendants and they became a band of slaves in
the pleasant land.
However, slavery
must have opened his eyes to the huge divine potential and responsibility of
leadership placed on him from the foundation of the world. Fortunately, he woke
up to from the slumber of death to divine purpose, broke the ceiling of slavery
and moved on the leadership position destined for him from the foundation of
the world. He became a leader, had an in depth understanding of the times and
urged Israel to do what the nation ought to do at a specific time. Please read
Genesis Chapter 49 verses 14 to 15 and 1st Chronicles Chapter 12
verse 32.
Unfortunately,
Esau did not understand his inability to deal with unbridled emotions. His
absolute lack of self-control was the self-imposed ceiling he put on himself
that made him lose the leadership role he should have played. He sold his
birthright because he was hungry. In essence, he sold his birthright for a non-asset,
a bowl of porridge that would digest in a few hours and be excreted out of the
body as waste and a fresh wave of hunger would start.
