VISION

VISION

 My friends, prayerfully consider this.  What are seeing?  Just as importantly, how long will you persist in seeing it when confronted with the inevitable challenges of time and trouble?

 Nearly four centuries ago a shipload of travelers landed on the northeast coast of America.  The first year, they established a town site.  The second year, they elected a town government.  The third year, the town government planned to build a road five miles westward into the wilderness.  In the fourth year, the citizens tried to impeach their town government because they considered it a waste of public funds to build a road five miles westward into a wilderness.  Their position: ‘Who needs to go there anyway?’

 Remember that these were people who had sufficient vision to see three thousand miles across an ocean and the determination to overcome great hardships to arrive there.  But in just a few years they were not able to ‘see’ even five miles out of town.  They had lost their pioneering vision.  Lesson learned.  With a clear vision of what we can become in life (and in Christ), no ocean of difficulty is too great.  Should we lose that vision, we cannot move beyond our current boundaries.  Think.

 Bill Hybels relates a vision story in his book entitled, “Who You Are When No One’s Looking.”  It started like so many evenings, Mom and Dad at home and Jimmy playing after dinner.  It was a full moon and some of the light seeped through the windows.  Jimmy’s parents were absorbed in various tasks and did not notice the passing of time.  Then Mom glanced at the clock. “Jimmy, it's time to go to bed.  Go up now and I’ll come and settle you later.”  Jimmy went straight upstairs to his room.  An hour or so later his mother came to check on him.  To her astonishment, her son was staring quietly out of his window at the moonlit scenery.  “What are you doing, Jimmy?”  “I'm looking at the moon, Mommy.”  “Well, it's time to get into bed now.”  As the excited and reluctant boy settled down, he remarked confidently, “Mommy, you know one day I’m going to walk on the moon.”  Who could have known that the boy in whom the dream was planted that night would survive a near fatal motorbike crash which broke almost every bone in his body, and would bring to fruition his childhood dream about 32 years later when James Irwin stepped on the moon's surface, just one of the 12 members of the human race to have done so?  

 True vision means seeing, believing, reaching and achieving.  Just do it.

 Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!