Vision
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Series overview: We all want better.
As we start off the new year we are all full of ideas and plans to make this year better than last year.
A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western World, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their life at the start of a new year.
A resent poll of over 2,000 American’s showed that most New Year’s resolutions are given up buy Feb 1st. Depressing right. But normally true.
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller
18 Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.
No revelation / people cast off restraint
No vision leads to no restraint.
1 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” 2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
7 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
They have been quick to turn away
21 He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?” 22 “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. 23 They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’ 24 So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
When you have no vision it gives you an excuse not to do better.
18 Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.
but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instructions.
2. Following God’s vision leads to better blessings.
4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: 6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.
3. Ask God to give you a better God sized vision.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
4. A better vision requires forgetting the past.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Forgetting what is behind
5. To have a better vision you must have a goal.
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
I press on toward the goal
vs. 14 - how can you press on toward a goal if you don’t know what it is?
6. You must write your better vision down.
2 Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
Write down the revelation / it will certainly come
God will you give me a “Better” vision for:
Share your Better Vision with someone else.
7. Share your better vision with someone.
My dysfunction / counseling.
Write it down: God will you give me a better vision for my family, my health, my walk with you.