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“For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hurries toward the goal, and it will not fail. Though it delays, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay long.”

—Habakkuk 2:3

God gives us all good works to do in this lifetime (Ephesians 2:10). Some of those good works are simply living life where we are with faithful integrity, showing others the work of the Spirit in us, and making disciples of those around us.

But sometimes it feels a bit bigger than that; God gives us a hint or a vision of something that seems beyond us.

And sometimes we’re tempted to make that vision come to fruition by our own efforts . . . like Moses trying to free the Israelites by his own strength and being exiled from Egypt or like Abraham and Sarah making their own plan about how to get a son. They did get a son, but he was not the promised son.

God’s way had Moses shepherding in the wilderness as a nobody for forty years. It had Abraham and Sarah childless for twenty–five years after the promise.

If God calls us to something big and he hasn’t shown us the way to accomplish it, proceeding according to our own human efforts will always lead to disaster rather than fulfillment.

In the end, Moses freed the Israelites with miracles he never could have performed without God’s power. Abraham and Sarah had a child after it was beyond the realm of possibility according to all human standards.

If God gives a way forward, we move in it. If he doesn’t, we keep praying about that vision and trusting that God has given it an appointed time in which he will bring it to pass.

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