“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.” – Oswald Chambers, from “My Utmost for His Highest”
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers is an awesome devotional for anyone who wants to grow in Christ. Today’s reading is based on Isaiah 35:7 and is about the visions God gives us:
Visions Become Reality
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…”
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This passage really struck my heart, and it is an encouragement that God is molding and shaping us into the vision He’s given. Though our minds and hearts may be parched with wondering when and how it can happen, He is always working at us and even putting us through the furnace, making us into His image.
Check out the devotions daily from “My Utmost for His Highest”; they are really food to the soul, and get you thinking more about how to live our lives to the utmost for God’s highest praise.
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