In my career of service to visionaries and creatives, the Holy Spirit has taught me this: Sometimes we, as people of vision, can become desperate for the blessing of the Lord.
Now, I’m not talking about general blessings or simple personal desires. I believe that sometimes we can become desperate for the promised blessing of God-the thing we have received from Him entirely of His making, the thing which He has obligated Himself to bring to pass.
Desperation for the promised thing is what led Abraham to father Ishmael through Hagar, his servant, rather than waiting for Sarah to conceive Isaac (Genesis chapter 16). His lack of faith in God’s timing and process drove a wedge between his two sons that continues to have an impact on our world today (see every crisis in the Middle East for the past 4,000 years).
It is easy to see Abraham’s error in the rearview mirror of history. I am learning, however, that we are not much different. Most of us either respond like Abraham, desperately taking matters into our own hands, or choose instead to sit on our hands altogether.
In my life many times I have chosen the latter, sitting on my hands by taking my mind off the promise and focusing instead on other things. I call that posture shelving the promise of God. Rather than to learn to wait on the promise, I placed it high upon my spiritual shelf, out of sight and out of my anxiety zone. Unfortunately, that can be just as dangerous as moving in desperation.
The promise of God cannot be grasped in our own strength and it cannot be shelved until the appointed time. Instead, it must be nurtured and prepared for consistently, without anxiety and without fear.
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