Proverbs 8:14

I am both Insight and the Virtue to live it out.

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Would you rather…

Have the most brilliant idea you’ve ever imagined— a vision so good it could change your life…

OR…

Have the personal strength, discipline, and follow-through to actually build that idea?

If you’re like me, you choose the dream. I dream up new ideas all the time! I’m in my 50s and JUST learning not to chase every whim and wonder that drifts past my imagination.

But wisdom says the real treasure isn’t just dreaming… it’s developing the muscle to make the dream real. Ideas feel exciting. Execution feels exhausting. Insight is free. Virtue costs you something—and that’s why it carries value.

In Proverbs 8:14, Lady Wisdom says: “I don’t just give you ideas… I give you the character to make them real.”

Insight is imagination. Virtue is execution. Most dreams die somewhere between the spark in your mind and the work in your hands. Insight starts the vision. Virtue builds it.

🔥 The Flavor Fest Balcony Story

Last month at the Flavor Fest music festival in Tampa, Tommy Kyllonen—Urban D—took me up to a newly built balcony at his church.

We’re standing up there looking out at everyone and seeing everything, enjoying the music, and he turns to me, and he taps his head and says:

“The idea of this balcony was ‘up in here’ for decades…I tried and tried to convince everyone we could build it…make it just like this–and people resisted it for years… and now we’re finally standing on it.”

When he said it…and the look on his face…It hit me so strong. Because that balcony—steel, wood, concrete—was once just a thought, a sketch, a whisper of imagination.

But here’s the part most people don’t see:

I’ve known Tommy, almost 25 years. This brother has always been fueled by ideas.

I remember 15 years ago—he told me he’d walk through malls and see those bright kiosk stations.

And he said:

“Churches should be learning from this.”

I came back the next year… Boom. Kiosk in the church lobby.

He tries things. He risks things. He experiments, fails, learns, adjusts. Half of what he imagines looks “too far out” until suddenly… it’s the new normal.

So when we stood on that balcony, it wasn’t just concrete beneath our feet— it was decades of imagination + decades of virtue finally shaking hands.

That’s what Lady Wisdom does. She becomes the bridge between the idea in your head and the “one day” you finally get to stand right in your dream.

THE ENCOURAGEMENT

Everybody has insight. Everybody has balcony dreams.

But virtue—discipline, consistency, courage, grit— that’s what turns imagination into architecture.

Wisdom doesn’t just inspire you. She strengthens you, steadies you, and stretches you until you can say:

“What used to live in my mind now has the strength to hold me—and hold others.”

🔥 Remember

Dreams don’t come true because you imagine them. Dreams come true because you become the person who can build them.

Prayer

Lord, give me the insight and the virtue for this.

Today’s Challenge

Write down one idea you’ve carried for years. Then write down one action you can take this week that moves that idea out of your head and into motion.

About the Author

Fred Lynch is a creative communicator, author, and Christian Hip Hop pioneer. To learn more about Fred and what he’s up to now…click here or you can find him in all the socials by searching the handle: heyfredlynch

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