STANDING IN THE GAP
STANDING IN THE GAP
I once asked
my grandfather what standing in the gap meant.
He said to
me, child, no one can explain standing in the gap to you in a way you will
understand, he chanted.
You will have
to experience it to understand that someone is standing in the gap. My
grandfather quipped.
Three weeks
ago, I was rushing off to the airport and was 30 minutes close to missing my
flight.
A complete
stranger parks his car and offered to take me to the airport.
As we got to
the airport terminal, I offered to pay him for his time and services and he
refused to collect the money.
He even
muttered a prayer for me saying: “I hope you meet my flight”
Thank you was
all I could mutter as I pulled out my bags and ran into the airport’s departure
wing. I made it to the checking counter 10 minutes before the gate closed.
As the
aircraft took off, I started to rethink everything that happened.
The only
thing that came to my mind is that this gentleman who refused to neither tell
me his name, nor give his card stood in
the gap for me.
In a flash, I
remembered what my grandfather told me about standing in the gap. He said: You will have to experience it to
understand that someone is standing in the gap.
I write this
piece this morning asking some rhetorical questions?
1.
Have
you stood in the gap for someone or for an organization?
2.
Have
you ever done something for someone that the person was never able to pay you
back?
3.
Have
you helped someone to make a decision to buy something and ensured that the
person received the full benefits accrued to that person?
If you do, then
you have stood in the gap for someone.
God and the World
are looking for men/women to stand in the gap.
The world is
in need of men/women of integrity to stand in the gap.
The goal of
this piece is to bring you all to a realization, that if you stand in the gap
for others, people will stand in the gap for you.
Look around
you and you will see that the world revolves around a system that stands in the
gap for others.
God created
the world and left the world for man to stand in the gap to manage it.
Even when men
failed, he sent his son and various messengers to stand in the gap for the
world.
Every
invention that exists today is a function of somebody standing in the gap.
Even
government and our political systems were designed to stand in the gap for
people.
What do we
need as a people to enable us stand in the gap?
We need to
embrace a good value system.
Our focus in
life shouldn’t be to become successful career men/women, but to be men/women of
value.
Values enable
us to live a life of integrity, which in turn leads to a better quality of life.
So as you move
out today, endeavor to stand in the gap for someone in your office, at home and
everywhere you go and in no time, you would have made a better place.
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