October 06th, 2012

How’s your vision tonight?  Webster defines vision as:  “the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be.”  I believe that that each of has a vision inspired by God for our own life.  Where we want to go, what we want to do.  How is your vision for yourself? Ever notice how each of us are designed with two eyes placed in the front of our head, on our face? So we can navigate forward though our life.  There wasn’t much use for eyes in the back of our head, as we need to focus on what lies ahead in life. I spent many years of my life unintentionally hampering my vision for today and tomorrow because I was too often looking backwards.  I spent entirely too much time focusing on my past, mistakes and achievements.  While it is important to learn from our past mistakes and analyze what went wrong, right and why, we need to be careful that we not paralyze and stunt our vision for today and tomorrow,  by over- analyzing yesterday.  What happens when we constantly focus on our mistakes and failures?  I can tell you it leads to despair and defeat, and instead of catapulting us into victory, we sink further and further into darkness!  There is no vision in darkness.  Think about it, you can’t see in the dark. This goes for both literal vision as in eye sight, and the vision for our life, how we anticipate our future.  When we exchange God's “Good Life” that he has for all of us, for the world’s “Good Lie” we lose hope for life, we have no vision for life, and as a result we become apathetic, full of despair and in the dark, without vision.  In my life I had lost my passion for life and lived for my next scotch and cigar, or new luxury car. I lost my vision for who God had created me to be, I lost my love for Him and my love for others.  I didn’t have joy, I didn’t have peace, I didn’t take heed, I was stubborn, deaf, blind and unkind. Then in the midst of my darkest hour, His light shined in and I walked toward that light one step at a time, out of the darkness.  Jesus is the light of my life, and I need to be in the light to see ahead.   King James Bible Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”  Thanks for letting me share.  Randy Young