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Date Posted: 18:04:02 07/06/00 Thu
Author: haw
Subject: devotion





"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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