Visions Become Reality  July 6, 2012

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.

My prayerful response:
Abba, I thank you for the vision you gave me a very long time ago; it was you who gave it, thank you again. The vision is real, but no it isn’t real in me. There have been moments when I’ve said, there isn’t any reason to keep going, “you’re a fool for wanting or thinking you could be . . . “Forgive me!! Satan and his temptations are real, very real, how often have I allowed him to blind me even for a moment to you. your truth, your vision and purpose for me anD my life.

I thank you for the valley where you led me and walked with me, even when I felt alone. “ . . .and no man cared for my soul.” I thank you for teaching me patience, it is a hard but useful lesson, but you are a great teacher. forgive me for giving up so often. You’ve been at work on my behalf in ways and means I’ve knew nothing about, thank you. I continue to think of myself as a failure, (there I’ve said it!) I’m in a hurry, you’re not and yes, even now, a very big hurry, forgive me. I want to do or be something, forgetting you say, I am something and someone already. I’m yours, its not what I have, or who knows me, or how often I’m mentioned in high places, but that I’m known by you, following you, completing the work you want of me. Jesus, i am who you say I am; I am becoming who and what you want of me, for the purpose you designed and wished for me, Thank You! Help me to remain in the place where you can get the greatest glory. I like Jacob. “ . . . the Lord was here, but I didn’t know it.” Forgive me because I judge too much before the time.

All of this time you’ve been at work in or around me, but I didn’t know it. My sense of failure has been a false one; I have no idea, what you have accomplished, nor do I have the right to attempt to judge the result(s).

forgive me because I believe my being rejected, etc., was the result of . . . , whatever I might think, is probably very wrong. Thank you for being at work, not only behind the scenes, but in ways and places I will never know or understand, not even in part or in a small way. thank you for getting me into the shape you want of me. It just seems fifty years is a long time. thank you for the goal you have for me, and shaping me as you have and continue to make of me.

Thank you for reminding me, that the goal you set isn’t unattainable, but very attainable even for me. You would give me something to do, or be, that you could   
accomplish. So do your best work Jesus, in places and by means I never thought or know possible. I will turn out as an exact likeness of the vision you had in mind for me. THANK YOU!!! Abba, hold my heart along the process. Thank you for not allowing me to settle for being on a lower level than what you want of me. I love you for the dream, the goal and the desire. AMEN!!!