Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
Singapore
October 11, 1995
Good Morning!
"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." (Oswald
Chambers)
God is allowing the testing...the battering, to mold our character
into His:
"Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you
are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into
various temptations.
"Be assured and understand that the trial and proving
of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.
"But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have
full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people]
perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing."
(James 1:2 - 4 Amplified)
Observe the birthing of a calf, or the metamorphous of a moth
into a butterfly. Painful. "Battering."
The temptation is to intervene and stop the uneasy proceeding.
But we need to understand God's battering "process"
and allow it to go on to completion.
Beauty and maturity often emerge from pain:
"Let endurance and steadfastness and patience have
full play and do a thorough work. So that you may be people
perfectly and fully developed with no defects, lacking in nothing."
This is God's school in preparing you, the visionary to carry
out the vision. In God's school there are no shortcuts. The
process produces the product.
So, fellow pilgrim, in your valley, don't "faint and give
way" until He completes His task in you.
My prayer is that you are having a great week!
Dwight Hill
© Copyright 1996 Dwight Hill. Unlimited permission to copy or use is hereby granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice.
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