By Sister Shirley Tarpley, NDG Religion Editor
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24
Almost every significant thing God births He allows to die before the vision is fulfilled in His own way.
Abraham had a vision of being the father of a great nation (birth). Sarah was barren and became too old to have children (death). God gave Abraham and Sarah a son in their old age. He became the father of a great nation (fulfillment).
Joseph had a vision that he would be a great leader and that many would bow down to him (birth). Joseph’s brothers sold him to some merchants and he became a slave.
Later he was falsely condemned to spend his years in prison (death). God allowed Joseph to interpret the dreams of the butler and baker and later the king, whereupon, he was made a ruler in the land (fulfillment).
Moses had a vision of leading his people out of the bondage of Egypt (birth). Pharaoh as well as his own people drove Moses out of Egypt after Moses’ first attempt to relieve their bondage (death).
God gave Moses signs and wonders to convince Pharaoh to free the people and bring them out of Egypt and into the Promised Land (fulfillment).
A grain of wheat has a “vision” of reproducing itself and many more grains of wheat (birth). The grain dies in the ground (death). A harvest springs up out of the very process of “death” in the ground (fulfillment).
Seniors 2019 graduates has God given you a vision that is yet to be fulfilled? If that vision is born of God, He will raise it up in His own way. Do not try to raise the vision in your own strength. Like Moses, who tried to fulfill the vision of freeing the Hebrews by killing the Egyptian, it will only fail. But wait on your heavenly Father to fulfill the vision in you. Then you will know that it was His vision when He fulfills it in the way only He can do.
Dear God, I pray that out of Your glorious riches that You may strengthen the Seniors 2019 graduates with power through Your Spirit in their inner being, so that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith. And I pray that they being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge; that they may be filled to the measure of all Your fullness, in the name of Jesus.
Ms. Thalia Sinclair Wilson is a 2019 graduate of Reedy High School, in Frisco. She is the daughter of Eugene and Yolanda Wilson. Thalia is a member of National Honor Society and a Varsity track athlete, where she is a caption of her team. She is an officer of the Reedy Black Student Alliance and Joining Generations- a community service organization. She is an active member of Bethel Bible Fellowship Church and Sister Tarpley’s Picture of the Week.
