Thank God for the sight of all you haven\u2019t yet become. God has called you to be one of his holy people, you\u2019ve had the vision of what he wants, but you aren\u2019t there yet by any means.<\/p>\n
God calls his children to the mountaintop and gives them a vision. Then he sends them down into the valley of everyday life, the valley where the vision will be put to the test. It\u2019s in the valley that most of us turn back, because it\u2019s there that we must prove whether or not we\u2019ll be the chosen ones. We aren\u2019t quite prepared for the blows that must come if we\u2019re going to be turned into the shape of the vision. Are we willing to be hammered into shape by God\u2019s hand? The hammering always comes in commonplace ways, through the circumstances and people we encounter in our daily lives.<\/p>\n
There are times when we know God\u2019s purpose for us, times when he\u2019s given us a vision and we see it clearly. Whether this vision will be turned into actual character depends on us, not on God. If we prefer to bask in the memory of the vision, we\u2019ll be of no use in the ordinary stuff of human life. We have to learn to live in reliance on what we saw in the vision\u2014not in ecstasies and conscious contemplation of God, but living our ordinary lives in light of the vision. We must do this until the vision becomes a reality. Every bit of the training God is putting us through is leading us to this goal. Learn to thank God for making his demands known.<\/p>\n
The little \u201cI am\u201d always sulks when God says, \u201cDo.\u201d Let your little \u201cI am\u201d be shriveled up in the face of the great \u201cI am who I am\u201d (Exodus 3:14). God must dominate our lives. Isn\u2019t it startling to realize that he knows where we live? That he knows the burrows we crawl into? He\u2019ll hunt us up like a lightning flash. No human being knows human beings as God does.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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