Jesus is our Vision

Jesus is Our Vision

Here's the thing. If our eyes are fixed on anything that is “earthly”

we will dramatically lose hope and feel like failures when things start

to go wrong. We may even idolise our ministries to the detriment of the

Kingdom of God. When our finances go awry, or someone gets hurt or our

leaders fall apart on us we had better know what we believe and who we

are following.

 

So what about all those “visions” out there? What about the vision to

see 1000 000 people reached with the gospel by the year 2000 or what

about the vision of Jesus coming back in 1984 or perhaps the vision to

minister to the poor and needy in India?

Are we really meant to follow a vision? Are we meant to put our heart

and soul into building an orphanage or planting a church or preaching

and teaching? These are all good things but are we meant to follow

them?

 

We have heard hundreds of men and women casting there vision to the

masses and many have caught the vision and said “yes I will give part

of my life to these things.” But is that right? Should people begin to

measure there lives success by the fulfilment of a task?

 

When we are on our death beds and about to meet Jesus. Will we feel

like we are ready if we have completed lots of tasks?

 

In collosians it says 1:18 And He is the head of the body the church,

who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. That in all things

he may have the pre-eminence.

 

We are commanded in the Bible to set our eyes on incorruptible things,

Jesus Himself endured the task of the cross for the hope set before

Him. We take hope in that we will one day be gathered together with

Christ in heaven, this is the joy set before us. Not the the cross of

setting up a ministry or teaching and preparing the body of Christ for

the great day of the Lord. Paul the apostle writes “to live is Christ

to die is gain” he knew that his whole life was consumed by the person

of Jesus Christ. If our vision is earthly we will measure everything by

earthly standards. We will compete with each other over territory and

possessions like children fighting over a toy. We will worry and bicker

over money and speak badly of each other to protect what we think is

ours. If our vision is earthly we will probably have one specific

outcome. We will be primarily focused on task.

 

If the Kingdom of God is in our hearts and we are to extend the Kingdom

our “task” focuses on the hearts of men and women. If the hearts of

“man” are to be converted by our witness we must have our eyes filled

with passion for Jesus and his Kingdom not digital design or feeding

the hungry. These things will be the product of our Vision of Jesus but

should never BE the vision.

Done