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Driven by Vision

dancingdreamer | April 04, 2008 19:41

Earlier this week, I saw a clip on television about orphans in Africa. As I sat there watching a story about two orphan girls in Ethiopia, my eyes glistened with tears and my heart shifted from heaviness to lightness. I needed something to jolt my mind into focusing on God’s vision for my life. For as long as I can remember, I have had a heart for Africa. I know I am called to minister to the hurting people, particularly the orphans that are suffering excruciating circumstances. This is the vision God has given me for my life. It is what He created me for.

This past month has been a challenge and a huge adjustment for me. I'm learning to balance working longer hours outside the home during my husband's unemployment. I am a home-maker and a home-schooling mom at heart.  I am not cut out to be a career woman. I love being at home with my family. It’s my passion. So I am being stretched to the max, like a kid pulling a rubber band as far as it can be stretched without snapping. Yet in my heart I know the Lord has me right where He wants me. God led me to my jobs and I see Him in the midst of all I’m doing. I am working in the “Hospitality Industry” mostly on weekends and working a few hours during the week teaching dance to children. Every detail about the situation has been perfectly orchestrated by God. Even though I am working more than ever, (since becoming a mom) my jobs are allowing me to keep my family as first priority and to continue home-schooling my children.

I know why God is stretching me and why He has been testing me greatly during recent years. It’s so much greater than anything I can imagine. Bottom line, God is preparing me for what He created me for. How will He use me in Africa if I don't learn to trust Him here in America? Life is a bed of roses here in the USA compared to what’s going on in Ethiopia. I’m so thankful that God has given me a glimpse of what it’s like to struggle. My heart aches when I see clips of the people in countries such as Uganda and Ethiopia.

As I’m writing this, the emotions are stirring in me and the tears are starting to flow. God has given me the spiritual eyes to see the good plans He has for my life. Every trial that He allows in my life has a purpose. Not one struggle has been in vain. As I face each new struggle, He continually reminds me that I need to live each day Driven by Vision.

Proverbs 29:18 – “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." KJV

Numbers 12:6 – “When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams.” NIV

Lord, help me to keep my eyes on Your vision for my life.

Your beloved daughter,

Amy

 

 

 

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