"God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and 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 place where He can trust us with the veritable reality. Ever since we had the vision God has been at work, getting us into the shape of the ideal, and over and over again we escape from His hand and try to batter ourselves into our own shape." Oswald Chambers
As a disciple God has given you a vision of the person you could be in Christ. He has placed in you a desire to be a different, better kind of person. You are in a hurry about this. He is not.
It is really hard for us to adjust our lives to "the enormous leisure of God". We live as if we are a temporary, fast project of His will. He works on us as permanent, eternal project of His will.
The other day I was asked by my wife Pam if I had considered just how patient God is with us as He works on the restoration of our overdeveloped souls. I jokingly replied, "Well, we aren't going anywhere, so why should he be in a hurry?"
I meant the reply as a joke, but as soon as the words left my lips, I knew that I was talking about something very true. God"s leisure is enormous because He knows we are not going anywhere and neither is He.
In this world nothing and no one seems to be permanent. Perhaps this is why leisure is so hard for us as humans. We can't relax and experience leisure because everything seems to be moving away from us too fast. We are all living some kind of hurry.
Perhaps the sabbath in the Old Testament was about God's enormous leisure and man's tendency to always be in a rush. Perhaps Jesus ability to have only twelve disciples points to His enormous leisure about doing His Father's will.
Remember the dream or vision God gave you about yourself? Calm down. You are not going anywhere and neither is God. You are already on your way to becoming the vision He gave you. You can afford to develop a godly leisure, too. If fact, godly leisure
(called soul rest) is a requirement for you to become the vision God gave you. God has all the time there is.
Be at rest.
As a disciple God has given you a vision of the person you could be in Christ. He has placed in you a desire to be a different, better kind of person. You are in a hurry about this. He is not.
It is really hard for us to adjust our lives to "the enormous leisure of God". We live as if we are a temporary, fast project of His will. He works on us as permanent, eternal project of His will.
The other day I was asked by my wife Pam if I had considered just how patient God is with us as He works on the restoration of our overdeveloped souls. I jokingly replied, "Well, we aren't going anywhere, so why should he be in a hurry?"
I meant the reply as a joke, but as soon as the words left my lips, I knew that I was talking about something very true. God"s leisure is enormous because He knows we are not going anywhere and neither is He.
In this world nothing and no one seems to be permanent. Perhaps this is why leisure is so hard for us as humans. We can't relax and experience leisure because everything seems to be moving away from us too fast. We are all living some kind of hurry.
Perhaps the sabbath in the Old Testament was about God's enormous leisure and man's tendency to always be in a rush. Perhaps Jesus ability to have only twelve disciples points to His enormous leisure about doing His Father's will.
Remember the dream or vision God gave you about yourself? Calm down. You are not going anywhere and neither is God. You are already on your way to becoming the vision He gave you. You can afford to develop a godly leisure, too. If fact, godly leisure
(called soul rest) is a requirement for you to become the vision God gave you. God has all the time there is.
Be at rest.
Bud McCord
Abide International
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