You’ve got a goal, a purpose, or at least destination. Often developing or having these missions in life is easier than making it happen. I don’t know about you, but I usually find there is not much of anything I can do to bring about these changes. There are, however, many things I can do to prevent the realization of them. That brings me to the point of this post – the ugly in between that we live in from where we are to where we want to be.

How do we get to that place? I’m not so sure I can tell you the specific how to’s on that. I’m, however,  very astute at knowing the how not’s. The buzz word for me lately has been “perspective.” How do we go about our “becoming” process and not thwart what God is doing and where He is taking us? We can start by having a thankful attitude. Yes, we can be thankful for the pain and the wait, because the hand of suffering and shame that we hold along the way will turn into the hand of grace and glory.

How do we become stronger without the resistance of struggle? How can we enjoy and appreciate the success if we have never failed? How can we treasure that thing we have attained if it did not cost us dearly?

So what to actually do during this in between time? While we work (and it will be work) on our perspective, what will help us get to our eventual goal? We can spend more time in prayer. The closer to God we become, the more of Him that grows in us and is revealed to others.

We can also be found doing all those little necessary things that we consider in our thinking to be menial and boring. In other words, do not leave the normal daily things undone while waiting to do the big things. If you do follow this advice, you may find one day that you have been doing those big things and have already arrived at your goal; you just did not realize. While walking and doing what you knew to do, you walked right into that eventual goal by default, instead of whining and crying and preventing anything good from happening in you and through you.

The following song puts the “how to’s” of this process so well regardless of what your wait is for – relationship, circumstance, health, spiritual, ministry, or any wait you find yourself in. If we practice what it preaches, nothing can stop us from reaching that goal.