Vision or sight is one of our senses. It’s a priveledge, not a right. You are a blessed person if you don’t have to wear glasses or contacts of any kind for any reason. I think glasses are cool as long as I don’t have to wear them. I’ve lost more pair than I’d care to know and I’ve only been using them for about four years. Good vision is a real blessing.

Spiritual vision is even more blessed. Webster defines vision as – 1 the power of seeing 2 something seen in a dream 3 a mental image 4 the ability to perceive or forsee something 5 something of great beauty. (Proverbs 29.18) “Where there is no vision, the people parish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.” (kjv). “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the law.” (niv) “If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.” (msg)

I walked in and wondered if I knew why I was doing what I’m doing? I wonder if you know why we are doing the ministry that we are doing? Why are we doing the things we do in the way that we do them? If you are 50 years old and you’re still playing “egg in the armpit” and you don’t know why, you should quit. You need to know the vision.

1) I want you to see. We are trying to reach a lost community with the gospel. We are attempting to encourage, instruct, and strengthen this body of believers through teaching and through OJT. We want the world to know who Jesus is, that He is what they have been searching for, and that He wants them to tell others about Him. We are going to use every means ethically, morally, spiritually, physically, financially possible to make that happen.

2) God has dreamed a dream for us. He wants us to go into every nation and make disciples. He wants us to baptize them and teach them everything we know about Him. We are attempting to fulfill that dream by going and by sending men and women out with the message of the gospel. We are going to Monticello, Indianapolis, Costa Rica, Africa, and the uttermost parts of the earth.

3) Can you picture yourself in this work? Where do you fit in? What can you do to help make this vision become reality? What gift do you have, what talent do you possess, that will further the advancement of the Kingdom? Are you willing to be a part? Join the cause!

4) Don’t get tunnel vision. Look down the road. Look at the new MBSF Center. Look at the plans for the new auditorium. Pray for the calling of young men and women into the ministry to fill the places of service that will be needed in the near and distant future. “The harvest is great but the laborers are few.” Look up.

5) The vision is the vision. Jesus is the vision. A vision is sometimes referred to as something beautiful. Jesus is beautiful. What he has done for mankind is awesome, wonderful, unimaginable, indescribable, unbelievable. What he has planned and prepared for us is breathtakingly beyond belief. His glory, his power, his love, his mercy, his grace, his compassion; there are no words that can describe how beautiful Jesus is.

“What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it – we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are…And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him – and in seeing him, become like him.” (IJohn 3.1,2 – msg) Here’s hoping you catch the vision.