The Vision that is Yours

I experience, quite often, a pull not much different from yours. It is the pull of your own purpose, your existence and vision and fruit of your life. This pull is often not of God, although used by God because He wastes nothing.

Saying no to overseeing an evangelistic series was a painful process to go through, the consideration of what a decision like that entails...it all seems so straight-forward. "It is God's work--you should do it. He is coming soon--you should do it. If you don't, you will regret it. Don't say no to the Holy Spirit--you will regret it." But consider the other side of intuition--and God is just mysterious this way as well. You go through life fulfilling others' vision even if it is not yours. Your vision is, if you really think about it, always bestowed. You have nothing if it was not given to you by the Author of your life. Ask yourself, is their imposition of the Holy Spirit? Or does the Lover and Redeemer of your soul invite? Doesn't He always? The difference between condemnation and conviction?

Never serve out of obligation. You will lose yourself. Oblige because you have a heart full to give. Oblige because He deserves it, because of the overflow of your joy. He gives it to you. If you don't have enough, ask. "He will not resent your asking."