The Game of Life by EKEKERE SAMUEL UFOT - HTML preview

Chapter Three

UNTIY OF PUPOSE

Each player begins the game with 16 pieces; one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops and eight pawns. Each of this set of pieces move differently. The endpoint through is to ensure the checkmate of the opponents king or an outright win. The player sees the pieces as though different with their individual style but all in a bid to achieve the endpoint “a win.”

In life, the same principles are applied. Companies have different staff with different capacities but one objective. The fact that they have to admit lawyers, engineers, servants, drivers, into one fold is because they realize that if they must achieve their goal, they need the services of this people. The doctors don’t say I am a doctor so should face my medical profession. The engineer does not say I am an engineer so I’m only concerned with my engineering profession. Rather everyone teams up with their different skills, united with purpose, the purpose being to achieve the company’s set objective.

Paul the master realized this when he said that there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit and there are differences in administration but the same lord…. For the body is not one member but many…. And God had set some in the church, apostles, prophets, and teachers, the essence being for the edification of the church.

A very good example of this principle is our body system all having individual parts; the eyes, mouth, nose, brain, head etc. each being distinct and having individual responsibilities yet working together to ensure the total existence of the human.

The fact that we are different with our personalities, gifts and temperament does not in any way reduce the fact that God has made as part of a team for the fulfillment of his own purpose.

In the chess game, the loss of a piece is detrimental to the overall success of the player. Each piece though unique whether minor or major has its effect on how the player plays and wins. If you lose your hands, you know you have lost an important part of you. If you lose your eyes, you know you have lost something very important.

In a company, when one staff leaves, he often leaves a vacuum that has to be filled. The fact is, everyone has a role to play to the overall achievement of a task. But there is a need for unity with every person having at the back of our minds that there is an objective or purpose we are heading towards.

Paul expressed the fact that God has placed in us diversity of ministers who each have dynamic styles and gifts in the same church so that the church will be edified. God has positioned inside everyone diverse talents and gifts that are needed by another. We are not all independent of ourselves. We need the sure cooperation of others. Iron sharpens iron with a goal to increasing the cutting ability of the two irons.

You do have to realize that

• Everyone’s’ different. No two persons are the same. You do have to acknowledge the strength of each person and their weakness and see how to get the best out of them. Moses was called by God and he was quick to acknowledge his inconsistency. But God found a help and support in Aaron who though had a gift that Moses lacked was not called. God fathomed that the goal and endpoint of having Israel out of Egypt could be accomplished by moving Aaron towards Moses and having them partner in unity of purpose. You have a unique ability that is uniquely yours and God wants to use that ability to the fulfillment of his goal. You may not have all it may take to accomplish the goal but he places people and persons around you who have what you lack so as to ensure the endpoint is achieved.
• Everyone has a role. However bad a person may be, he is important to the overall plan to God. They may be lepers, but God can still fathom how to use lepers. God had to use lepers to save Israel from famine. There is a role for everyone especially when it is being played under God. That little child is as important as the big minister. The unknown prayer warrior is as important as the presiding bishop. The cleaner is as important as the CEO. They may not all play equal roles but they all need each other.

One fact about the chess game is TEAM work of the pieces. Whether they are pawns or kings, they do have to be played as a team. As a team, together every one achieves much. One individual piece cannot tackle the whole team of the other opponent even if that piece is the queen with unique attributes. It will need the support and strength of every other piece. There is no gainsaying the fact that as individuals, we may have enormous skills and talents but we do need the sometime irrelevant skills of others to push us forward.

The machines and automobiles of our world have many parts. Some are giants, others are minuet. You would observe that the minuet part of the engine that gets worn or bad can stop the entire engine or vehicle from working. Every part is important and each must work for the other for the progress of the whole.

See through the eyes of the chess player, you would understand the underlying principles that have made the greatest teams successful. Ask soccer coaches, they would tell you how relevant every player is to the fixing of the team’s puzzle. Every player counts, you count and the other man counts too.

God knew why he never created you and dropped you in an empty world. He fixed you amongst people in order for you to associate with them and build a partnership aimed towards achieving his purpose. Jesus Christ the grandmaster says; I and my father are one. He wasn’t claiming equality but unity of purpose

Strive to ensure you pull through every bit to ensure that next piece is a partner to the destination God has designed you for.