Within Reach: It Is Not Beyond Us

Models. Structures. Rhythms. Routines.

It’s not always obvious, but people like these. They find some sense of existence in a pattern. You establish a routine for how you eat. You get a rhythm for when you eat. You develop a structure for what you do when it’s time to eat. You set up a model for a life that puts in the structure for the rhythm of the routine of eating in your life.

Then events happen. A shift in your work pattern. A location change. Something takes place that causes you to rearrange things.

It doesn’t have to be those things, however, that motivates the change.

When you set a goal and have a vision that can do something to your life where those rhythms, routines, models and structures are concerned.

It has been fascinating for me to see how different stages in life call for a change. Especially as those different stages bring about a sharpening of the vision and clarity in goals for that given period of time.

There’s a challenge on the personal level – you can imagine how much more that is the case when it’s a more than just the personal. How can you get a couple or a small group to get mobilised to reach a goal and fulfil a vision?

The thing about the goal and the vision is that it is beyond you. It sometimes even feels like it ever remains beyond you. But the beauty of the one who gives the vision and sets the goal is that there is wisdom also on board to pursue that goal and see the vision realise.

Faith in the great One who gives the vision should also provide that faith to perceive and give reason to trust Him. Trusting Him to open your eyes to see the path that He has set. Trusting Him open your mind to understand the steps He’s set for you. Trusting Him as well to open you up to cultivate the rhythms, routines, models and structures that He offers fit for the season.

That which He gives you is fit for the season. This helps to see that those goals and that vision which appears beyond, you really can be within reach.

(Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash)

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden