Intervention

‘Then Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. “How could I become a father at the age of 100?” he thought. “And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?”’ Gen.17:17.

I had a meeting with my wife’s former boss in the consulting firm where she used to work. I was trying to show them that if they patterned with me, we could take the whole industry. She looked at me and she said, “How are you going to do this?”And she started poking holes in the vision with the question how. By the time she finished with me, I wasn’t sure I had a vision anymore. I left the meeting convinced that some people are just very pessimistic. But years have passed and I have learnt that she was right. She was talking from the depth of her experience. In her case, she was sincere even though she almost killed the vision. But some of us have fallen prey to people that are totally not sincere with us, and they ‘how’ our visions to death. Saying things like – nobody in your house rode a bicycle and you are talking about flying a jet? How do you hope to ever achieve that? And the how begins to hunt you. The truth is the fact that you don’t know how, is a pointer to the fact that God is behind it. It is a pointer; I am not saying that it is proof that God is behind it. God will give you a vision that would require you coming back to Him to find out how. If you have a vision and you can figure out how, you are going to execute the vision fully from day one. I doubt if it is of God. God will give you a vision that will compel you to keep running back to Him. How am I going to do this? How am I going to take that step, Lord, this is bigger than me! Don’t get me wrong, God wants us to plan, He wants us to be strategic. He wants us to brainstorm and have our strategy sessions. But guess what, plan the best you can but remember a divinely inspired vision will always require divine intervention. If a vision is divinely inspired, it will take divine intervention to bring it to pass. Take the case of Moses, God gave him a vision, he had the picture of a free people in his heart. Moses did not sleep and dream or have an open vision. But Moses had a mental picture of what could be and should be. This people could be free and should be free. But Moses figured out how; you know he was educated in the best university available. And that landed him in the wilderness for forty years to sit with God so that he can learn God’s own how.

Prayer: Father, I pray that my education will not become a hindrance to me in the things and the way of God, in Jesus Name.