How's Your Vision?
If you ask anyone if they had to lose one of their senses which one would it be, you are going to get different answers and reasons for their answer.
For me I’m not sure what I would say but it would not be my sight. To not to be able to see the faces of my loved ones and friends and the beauty of God’s creation, I’m not sure I could bear it. The thing is that over the last few years I have developed some eye problems that could make it a good possibility down the road in my life. I have the beginnings of macular degeneration, cataracts and an untreatable condition that can change the clarity of my vision overnight. But I have faith in God and whatever happens to my eyesight He will use it for His good and glory.
So if I lose my vision I will learn to live with it. But there is a vision I never want to lose. That is my spiritual vision.
Proverbs 29:18a says “Where there is no vision, the people perish:” God has a vision for my life that has nothing to do with my physical sight but everything to do with my spiritual sight. My physical sight is a gateway to sin. “For all that is in the world, the lust of theflesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of theworld.” 1 John 2:16 But spiritual sight leads to knowing God and His plan for me. Jeremiah tells us God has plans for us - plans that are for good and not for disaster - to give us a future and a hope. God is sovereign, everything He says is true. I need to know His plan and to do that I need to read and know His playbook, the Bible. No sports team is going to go far if they just read the playbook and don’t memorize the plays. It would be chaos in the game. But we’re not in a game we’re in an all-out war!
We need to know the plays. That’s why memorizing scripture is so important for us. When we get into situations and ask the Holy Spirit for guidance, He reminds us of the right scripture we need to help us through.
In Acts 2:17 Peter quotes Joel 2:28 to the people who were mocking them and saying they were drunk. He says, “In the last days, God says, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.”
I’ve noticed in the Old Testament that many prophets and men and women of God had their visions and dreams while in bed. I think God likes to speak to us through our sub-conscious because if He spoke to us direct, it would wreck almost all of us. That’s why I feel it is not only important to start my day with God, but to also end the day with Him so I can be ready to receive the visions and plans He wants me to complete.
Peter said that God said in the last days He would pour out His Spirit upon us. God has poured out His Spirit upon us because the Spirit comes and lives in us when we begin a relationship with Jesus. God wants us to know His plans and He reveals them day to day, not a year in advance.
Habakkuk 2:3 says, “This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.
God’s plan is in motion. He has revealed the end to us in His playbook. His plan is for us to have His spiritual vision so we will not fear what is to come. He will grow us in our spiritual vision and at times it may be blurry, but there will come a day when 1 Corinthians 13:12 is our reality.
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.”