THE POWER OF RECOMMENDATION

The advanced learners dictionary of the English language defines ‘recommendation’ as ‘suggestion for something (role or an office), make appealing or highly desirable’. Recommendation is something we do consciously and unconsciously. At almost every juncture in life, this power is evoked (we might be evoking it or someone is doing it in our favour).
Researches have shown that we are a number of people away from where we want to be or who we want to meet. This means that all we have to do to get to a place of our dreams or shake hands with our dream celebrity is getting to know someone or some people. Your dream place is someone’s relaxation center and that enigmatic person is another person’s pal.
Recommendation takes place everywhere; politics, career, relationship and even religion. The day Barack Obama received the public endorsement of Senator Edward Kennedy; he overtook Hillary Clinton in the opinion poll of who should clinch the presidential ticket of the Democratic Party. Also, he enjoyed the recommendation of Oprah Winfrey.
We have seen spouses that met each other through the recommendation of dear friends.
The power of recommendation is as important as the person making it on your behalf; it is not advisable to long for something so much that you ask someone that does not enjoy high respect to do it for you. If this dear mistake is made, you might loose it even before you lay your hands on it. Edward Kennedy and Oprah Winfrey are two people that enjoy in no small measure the respect of Americans; their public endorsement did it for Obama.
Biblically, there are examples; Joseph being an evergreen one. Despite the fact that he was destined for the post (prime-minister), he still had to depend on someone putting in a word for him (recommendation), little wonder he told the king’s cup bearer not to forget him when he again took his place among the king’s retinue of servants.

Recommendation does not happen in a vacuum, it depends on some vital principles;
The principle of relationship: this principle states that you cannot vouch for someone you do not know. Hence, for you to enjoy someone’s word on your behalf, you have to command the person’s confidence and confidence comes only with relationship. No man is an island of anything, if God could say ‘come lets reason together’ and sauntered into the garden to have fellowship with man who is a man to say he does not need others?

The principle of diligence: it said that we should not be weary in well doing and further says a diligent man will have his place among kings and princes. This shows that if you keep doing what you know how to do best in your closet, it is only a matter of time, you’ll soon catch the attention of people and by extension enjoy their recommendation.