Make Your Vision a Tangible Reality

When God gives you a vision for your life or the next stage of your life, the good news is that you have already been equipped with the necessary tools to carry out that particular vision for your life. But the reality of it all is that it’s not a folding of the arms and a blink of the eyes that makes your vision become a reality. You must put in the work!! The time, energy, and effort to make your vision a tangible reality. 

Now I’m sure we all have experienced purchasing something online before or know someone who has, but let’s just say you needed a dining room set for your new home and you're looking to purchase it online. You’re big on earth tone colors so you’re looking for a Mahogany colored dining room set with a modern feel to it(now stay with me because I promise you I’m going somewhere with this).

 After hours of searching you finally found the dining room set that fits your vision and your budget completely. You’re now jumping for joy as you received your confirmation page via email and can’t wait for the arrival of your new dining room set (whoop!! Whoop!! Life can’t get any better). After a week of waiting, your delivery date had finally come, so you rushed home to meet the delivery guys, only to find 3 humongous boxes waiting for you on the doorstep, with your name printed on all 3 boxes, and an invoice attached to one-your excitement balloon had immediately deflated.  

So after sitting in the car for a while dumbfounded at the fact that there are 3 huge boxes staring you in the face, instead of a completed dining room set, you manage to get the heavy three boxes inside. Angrily, you pulled the invoice off one of the boxes and called customer service right away. After 10 minutes of yelling and expressing your frustration, the chipper customer service rep on the other end explains to you that all furniture purchased online is disassemble, boxed, and delivered safely to your home. And it’s up to the customer to reassemble the furniture by themselves with the help of the instructions. (Stay with me I’m almost finish ;)

After days of looking at the 3 boxes sitting by the door, you finally rolled up your sleeves and went to work on your vision…oops excuse me, your dining room set. After a whole lot of sweat, tears, and even threats to return the half assembled dining room set, you finally finished after 2 whole weeks(right before your house warming party). Fast forward: During the party friends and family gravitated the most to the dining room area, which became the main attraction the entire night. You were well pleased and appreciative that everyone who came to the party had enjoyed most- the one thing you put your hard work, time, and effort into- your vision had finally became a tangible reality.

Sometimes in life we carry many grand visions for our life, and they never become a tangible reality. Why? Because most of us would have stopped at the 3 boxes being delivered onto our doorstep Stage, instead of doing whatever we had to do in order to make our vision a tangible reality. If we can just learn how to respect the process no matter what shape or form it is delivered to us in, instead of relying on a microwavable vision, we can get to our Tangible Reality. If you don’t remember anything else from this message, remember this: “The Gap which bridges your vision to your tangible reality is the Process. So respect and learn through the Process.”  And that's your encouragement for today. 

God Bless

~Mechelle Stokes