| Visions Become Realityi was discussing with a friend my favorite study from My Utmost For His Highest. thought i would share it with whoever still reads this thing.
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July 6, 2008
The parched ground shall become a pool . . .
—Isaiah 35:7 We always have a vision of something before it actually becomes real
to us. When we realize that the vision is real, but is not yet real in
us, Satan comes to us with his temptations, and we are inclined to say
that there is no point in even trying to continue. Instead of the
vision becoming real to us, we have entered into a valley of
humiliation. Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And battered by the shocks of doom
To shape and use. God
gives us a vision, and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us
into the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that so many of us
give up and faint. Every God-given vision will become real if we will
only have patience. Just think of the enormous amount of free time God
has! He is never in a hurry. Yet we are always in such a frantic hurry.
While still in the light of the glory of the vision, we go right out to
do things, but the vision is not yet real in us. God has to take us
into the valley and put us through fires and floods to batter us into
shape, until we get to the point where He can trust us with the reality
of the vision. Ever since God gave us the vision, He has been at work.
He is getting us into the shape of the goal He has for us, and yet over
and over again we try to escape from the Sculptor’s hand in an effort
to batter ourselves into the shape of our own goal. The vision
that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision
of what God wants you to be down here. Allow the Potter to put you on
His wheel and whirl you around as He desires. Then as surely as God is
God, and you are you, you will turn out as an exact likeness of the
vision. But don’t lose heart in the process. If you have ever had a
vision from God, you may try as you will to be satisfied on a lower
level, but God will never allow it.
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