October 13: Individual Discouragement and Personal Enlargement

(For whatever reason, my 'enter' key will not allow me to create new paragraphs right now, so forgive the following run-on paragraph.) I know that some of you children of my heart are going through times of personal discouragement right now. I hope that today's reading will be of great encouragement to you. Can you understand that it is your very giftedness that leads you to such levels of frustration? You have intelligence, vision, and drive, but still you seem to be spinning your wheels. Chambers' powerful words could be directed straight to you: "He [or she] was right in the individual aspect, but he [or she] was not the man [or woman] for the work until he had learned communion with God." Moses must have been especially committed to his own idea of how to use his gifts to change the world, because it took God 40 long years to replace Moses' ambitions and desires with the ones that God wanted him to have. Dear Jesus, today my fervent prayer is that the children of my heart, those that read this blog regularly as well as those who do not, will quickly learn to give up the long-cherished dreams of their ambitions and let you replace them with the vision of what they were born to accomplish. Help them to absorb the difficult lesson that "we have to learn that our individual effort for God is an impertinence; our individuality is to be rendered incandescent by a personal relationship to God." In other words, Lord, help us to realize that although we may be a 500 watt bulb in a sea of people who have only 60 watts, we will never put out any light until we are plugged into Your power source. Any other power will just cause us to short out!!