From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
It was the great Thomas Edison who once said, “Vision without execution is hallucination.”
He should know.
A list of his inventions includes the incandescent light bulb, movie camera, phonograph, mimeograph, carbon microphone, the nickel-iron battery, and the list goes on and on.
Clearly, Edison did not let things just die at the vision stage but put shoulder to the grindstone and executed his great ideas so that the end product eventually came.
Casting vision and dreaming big are commendable things to do but that is only the start.
If we want to benefit from our dreams and visions then we must be willing to get to work and move forward.
I enjoy watching “Shark Tank” and its Canadian counterpart, “Dragon’s Den.”
I am always amazed at the courage these people have to put their grand ideas out there and solicit the financial help they need to get their dream product off the ground.
Many, if not most, get shot down and the despondent entrepreneurs must go back to the drawing board if they want to continue to see their vision come to pass.
Some have their vision die right there, but others press on and win their hard-fought reward.
The children of Israel were once enduring a very depressing time in their nation’s history but in the midst of it God said something amazing to them, as recorded in Habakkuk 2:2-3: “Write down the vision and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the vision awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”
So, my friend, put that dream of yours in writing and then get to work, little by little, working towards its fulfillment.
You might just be the next Thomas Edison!
