Stuffing

Vision

My mom ended up going to a walk in clinic as her spot started to look more like lyme disease and she is now on antibiotics.

I read some of Andy Stanley's "Visioneering" and was struck by this quote by Karen Bennett

"If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles He has for you"

This Karen started a inner city childrens church in Atlanta and has paid a price in that their building has been broken into, their buses vandalized, their staff beaten up and numerous children who started attending were murdered (not because they were attending but because of the area). They didn't have money or support, so it involved a lot of sacrifice. I would think when you look at the negative outcomes it might be easy to give up. But the positives must have outweighed the negatives overall.

Andy gives the example of when Nehemiah was building the wall and the obstacles he faced- their families at risk, the enemies closing in around, there was fear and discouragement and the workers quit.
Andy says

"Who could blame them? Think about it. When you weigh the risk of what they were facing against the rewards of finishing the wall, why stick with it?"...But Nehemiah wasn't in this because he was convinced the people had the character, competency and commitment to pull it off. He wasn't in it because he was convinced the wall could be rebuilt to it's original specifications. He was participating in this project because this was what God had put in his heart to do. Of course it was impossible. Nehemiah's critics had some valid points. But the critics weren't factoring in God.

It reminded me of a recent dream of an unfinished hole. It looked like so much work. But, as Nehemiah did, we need to pray, remember the source of our vision and revise our plan as needed.

posted by Aphra @ 7/10/2007 01:03:00 PM