Vision

In His Name Devotionals
VISION

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Proverbs 29:18)

You are daily deluged with words in every form of written communication, i.e., newspapers, magazines, and advertising. Have you become hardened to the point you pay little attention? An inscription printed on a church building in Sussex, England in 1730 reads: “Vision without a task is but a dream, A task without a vision is drudgery, A vision with a task is the hope of the world.” Do you have a vision of what the church of our Lord ought to be? In it do you see multitudes turning to the Savior, accepting His offer of salvation and becoming a part of that growing spiritual kingdom that has the assurance of final victory (1 Corinthians 15:25ff)? Question: “Is that really a vision or a dream?”

As a Christian, you know what you ought to do, but have you become like the people in Malachi’s day, feeling, if not saying it, “Behold, what a weariness it is...” (Malichi 1:13). Question: “Have you thought that the routine practices of worship are tiresome drudgery?”

Of all people on earth a Christian should be optimistic, inspired; active in the profession of faith. You should feel that same compulsion Paul felt as he continued his work (1 Corinthians 9:16). Question: “Isn’t that really your hope?” The contingent question: “What are you doing about it?”