When God gives you a vision for your life, it’s usually big. Too big for you to orchestrate on your own. A vision of a family legacy can feel impossible. Seeing properties and generations and thinking of handing down each part to our children, it can feel like a pipedream.
But here’s what I know to be true…
I don’t know how we’ll get there, but I know where we’re going.
When I can’t see the ins and outs of a vision from God, then I must trust. I mean, if a dream isn’t impossible by all earthly stretches of imagination, then it’s not likely from God anyway…right?
His thoughts aren’t our thoughts. He can see all of time at once. He knows every decision, every twist and turn, every move we will make…so He’s the only One Who can show us the way forward.
It never fails to amaze me the way people hear from God, then attempt to take charge of whatever vision He’s shared with them. That’s the opposite response from what it should be.
Every time God shows me something, my first response is simply, “Yes. I receive that.” Then, I say, “Now come and do that thing You’ve shown me.”
I receive the vision, then release it back to Him.
Catch and release, if you will.
I hold a vision for the massive dream God has given me for our family line. I hold it loosely, as to allow God to shape and mold every part. In the meantime, I wait. I pray about it coming, I believe in it completely, and I’m making room for it in my heart and watching God make room for it in the hearts of our family.
The beauty of this waiting season is intense. The fruit of this waiting season is seemingly the size of the fruit they found in their recon mission into the Promised Land. Sure, we’ve seen giants in the land before us, but I refuse to allow that to cast a shadow on the joy.
The fruit.
It’s always been about the fruit.
God gave us the vision of where we’re going, and we had no idea that our greatest work in the waiting would be to truly establish our family dynamic. To grow together and cultivate our first farm…right within these walls…family.
You can’t have a family farm without the family.
The family won’t want to be a part of that farm if they don’t first feel valued and established in the home. We’ve been growing healthy heart connections. Establishing healthy relationships. Learning to love and grow together. A joyous time. A full time. A worthy expedition.
So, it’s true…
I don’t know how we’ll get there, but I know where we’re going.
To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and He will establish your plans. The Lord works out everything to its proper end- even the wicked for a day of disaster. Proverbs 16:1-4
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