WRITE, RUN, WAIT!

 Hi there!

How are you doing? Here’s hoping you are good and that God continues to be with you.

Welcome to today’s gist.

I was reading Habakkuk 2 and verses 2 and 3 say “then the Lord answered me and said ‘write the vision and engrave it plainly on [clay] tablets so that the one who reads it will run. For the vision is yet for the appointed [future] time. It hurries toward the goal [of fulfillment]; it will not fail. Even though it delays, wait [patiently] for it, because it will not delay.’”(Amplified version)

Two things struck me when I read these verses and I thought to share with you.

Firstly, the Lord instructed the Prophet, Habakkuk, to write the vision down and engrave it plainly. Why? So that the one who reads it will run –be able to utilize the instructions from the vision and apply it to their life. 

When God shows you something, it is important to write it down; there are days when you become so tried and tired that you can begin to question why you’re even on the journey, it is on those days that it becomes even more important to have written down what God has told you, so that you can read it again and draw fresh strength to keep running.

When the Bible talks about someone reading the engravings and then running, it is not one abstract figure or a stranger that the Bible means, the Bible is also talking about you! When God tells you something, whether it is an instruction for how you should live your life or a glimpse of what your life will look like, write it down, so that it serves as a future reference. To be able to run with the vision, you must first have access to the vision, and what better way to have continued access than to write it down.

What I’ve been doing is to make sure I write what God tells me, especially about myself, in the most unpretentious way possible; so I can write “God is saying that I …” so that I am never confused about Who said it and to whom it was said, I’ve found that it helps me attach a higher level of intentionality to the instruction.

The second thing that struck me was admonition to wait patiently for the fulfillment of what God has said.

Too many times, it becomes easy to be so fixated on when and how we think God’s plans for our lives should actualize that we set the timelines for them, forgetting that the plans in question belong to God so He alone knows the time to bring forth the actualization of the promises and plans He has made.

So we whine and complain about how slow God is being and the delays He’s making us go through but His word in Habakkuk is telling us that the vision is for an appointed time and that it will not delay. This is not to say it won’t seem like its taking too long, what it means is that no matter how long it takes by your own calculations, God’s calculation is the correct one and He won’t fulfill the promises he has made even a second too late.

This is why it becomes so important to set your pace in God, because He alone knows the perfect time for everything that should occur in your life. 

It won’t be easy! Sometimes following God’s pace may mean ‘staying stagnant’ while others are moving forward, but we must learn to trust in God’s perfect plan and know that He won’t bring us into what He has for us late.

I am really sorry for my extremely jumbled thoughts and I hope they make the sense to you that they do in my head, I pray that God helps us to trust His process and to document everything He tells us.

See you next week!

 

Love,

Achenyo.

PS. It’s 5 days to my final exams, and I have only 14 days of studentship left!