That moment when you realize the vision or promise you once carried seems so far away.
Where did I go wrong, God?
What did I miss?
Did I not hear you correctly?
Was it even real?
What starts out on the right foot, so often gets lost in the course of everyday life. We experience setbacks. We get hurt. We get distracted. We lose focus. We end up settling for less.
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10
The devil’s greatest game is stealing, killing and destroying every good promise that comes from God: your worth, your purpose, your joy, your health, your dreams and everything in between. Yes, Jesus has already defeated the devil on the cross but He leaves it to us to act upon this truth. He leaves it to us to recognize the thief in our own life and do something about it. All of the promises of God are yes and Amen, but it is our responsibility to believe and receive them. Hence, the meaning of “fight the good fight of faith“!
Remember Israel in the wilderness? God had already told them the Promised Land was theirs, but He also told them that they had to go and take it. They were too afraid. They saw an impossible thing, despite God saying He would be with them. They yielded to doubt and, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, they lost out on the vision God had given them. They lost out on the life they could’ve had.
When God gives a vision, there’s always an element of faith required. Sure, there’s a journey along the way, but that journey is always filled with tests, failures and disappointments, often which cause us to give up or lose hope. The truth is, God never meant for us to give up….He meant for us to overcome.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1
There are times when we are waiting on God, but there are also times when He is waiting on us. Waiting on us to remember that vision, that promise, that desire He put in our hearts, or that thing we thought was impossible. Waiting on us to believe and act upon it.
Then the Lord answered me and said:
Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:2-3
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