When I was younger, I used to write my stories in books: ruled books using pen. I could pile and pile and pile them, dreaming that Bibleboy someone would dream about some day — arbitrarily, and then come to me and say “Lo, God has told me to publish your book” — just like Gabriel appeared to Mary.
I’d brag about having written a book, but up until this point, I had just done half of the work. God created Adam, but He hadn’t made him yet. He had conceived the idea, but it hadn’t manifested; pretty much like a one-month old fetus won’t push outwardly to indicate something is growing in the womb.
It even became hard to prove that I had written a book. When I lent it to someone to read, I was unsettled. She could lose it. And I had only one copy! I hadn’t owned a laptop yet, and restarting the inking would be cumbersome work.
Eventually, I had to come to my senses, and enroll in a leadership program, whose partial agenda was to publish a book. I went through it, discovered the process from editing to laying out to printing — and delivered the baby officially to the world.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 says a dream comes through a lot of activity or business. My interpretation was: when we work hard and at it, it will come to pass. Maybe for the earlier part, no one is going to come. Men actually begin noticing when a service or a product has reached a certain level, or has been refined to a certain stage.
For that to happen, for example, one should have bare minimally multiplied the product to something an investor can touch, or fee, or see. The theory may not be as persuasive.
So yes, you want stakeholders to come on board … first keep pushing until the level where their heads can be forced to turn. That’s when they pass by, and inquire. And then, one thing will lead to another. But all in all, don’t fold your hands. Get to work, and keep pushing until your community or family provide good reception to your seeds.
Soon, it will be to the world! If you keep on waiting, you’ll be 30 soon! Forty, fifty, sixty … and not saying that God can’t work a miracle in these later stages — no. But what if you are your own delay to your dream’s coming?!
Do your part so that the delay condemnation doesn’t fall on you. When Ruth needed a husband, she showed up on Boaz’s fields, and then favor took over. If she had not showed up at all, how could the rich man have found his way to her ghetto alley?
The Israelites were promised victory, but that didn’t mean sitting back. They had to go round Jericho’s thick walls. Then seven times on the final day, and shout at the end.
There is the prophecy or dream, and then the strategy or instruction for you to obey. Download and carry through with it.
Get to work. Play your part, and it will come to pass.
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