Visions

"Vision is produced by man while revalation is given by God." I believe this because how many times have YOU or I honestly sat there and created what we wanted to become? We could envision it in our minds. We just knew that because we wanted to be this certain thing...we could see it happening in order to become it. I grew up knowing what I wanted to be. I daydreamed during class and dreamed of it at night while I slept. I always wanted to help people. I always wanted to do good by helping those less fortunate. Even though it was good, was it what God wanted? All these questions and realizations have been coming into view with each lesson that God throws at me to catch. Before this, my good intentions always got me in a rut. Why? Because I wanted to help people but ended up getting caught up myself. I did wrong in order to do right, which doesn't make any sense when I think back on it. However,this is not unlike many others who have been in the same situation...dreaming of who they want to be in the future. When their future becomes their present, they find that their vision changes into something similar but nonetheless different. They do what "they have to do". But is it what God wants for them? What I learned yesterday at bible study is that even though you have a vision to do good, it is not really from God. God never gives you a vision as a leader without giving you the tools or the strength to follow through to become what He has predestined you to be. Things have changed a lot for me. Where I once was a dreamer, a visionary... I now find myself looking to God for what He envisions me to be. And whether or not I want to be that is a different thing in itself. For I avowed myself to Him to do what He will. And so He shall.