Merely Clay in a Potter's Hand

My Utmost For His Highest July 6th

 Visions Becoming Reality:

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 an 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 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 the things, but the vision is not yet real in us.  God has to take us into the valley and put us through fire 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 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.

Been reading and thinking about what this looks like in my life the last few days. I think that it is safe to say that I have forgotten my place on the wheel and have fought against what and who God is creating me to be. (I think we all do this at some point). Even though that is all I want; to be like God and to be used by God because in that life is found.

I think I need to slow down and cut out and not add so much stuff to the week to be able to be molded. hmmm...story of my life I guess.  But really I need to stop fighting the one who has created me and I need to be put back on the wheel where I was always intended to be.

I need patience in this area of my life so that it can then be a part of every area of my life.  If I am not patient with God how will I be patient with anyone else?