Opportunity Knocks or Invite Opportunity

Recently, I had a conversation with someone that had a great opportunity slip through their fingers.  This person played in a marching band in high school and transferred and stop playing because of the lack of skill level of the band.  Now, in the back of the mind of some of us is, if you love doing something, those little things do not matter right, well to this person it did, and who knows where that road could have gone.  So this person comes to my alma mater, Georgia State University, who in the last few years, launched a football program and along with that came, guess what, a marching band.

Now, this band is not on the level of some other major universities just yet but that will come with time.  At any rate, this person, once again, did not join this the GSU band because it was not up to the level of expectation so being apart of it was out of the question.

Here is the kicker to this filibuster if you will (thanks Dusty Rhodes), Georgia State University just celebrated 100 years of being in education and the marching band was invited to be apart of the inauguration of the re-elected President Barack Obama which I must say as an alumni, I am proud of that fact and I am proud of the band members that were able to have that opportunity and experience; a rare, even once in a lifetime opportunity, that the person I was talking to missed out on.

As the old heads say, the only thing between us and success is opportunity and air and its true.  The thing is, opportunity comes to our house very little and accepts our invitations even less and rarely invites over for that matter so we need to take heed to Ecclesiastes 11:4, instead of waiting on right conditions to do something, i.e., a better marching band, better job, right background, or whatever we come up with, we will never do what God put on the inside of us to do because we are looking at what is going on around us instead of what is in  us.

Ecclesiastes 11:6 says that we should be working at one thing in the morning and working on another thing in the evening because opportunity could happen for either one or both but the thing is to be prepared when God sends opportunity to our house or when He tells us to call opportunity up and invite opportunity over.  I will close by saying that time is precious and opportunities are few so we have to treat it all like a lightning bolt that we can grab on to and ride it because it is no guarantee that we can put that lightning in a bottle (yes it is cliche but it fit right?)  God gives us the skill and ability, provides the opportunity, but its up to us to make the choice if answer the knock on the door or send out invitations for it.