Gospel

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GOD'S VISION FOR US: HIS LIVING LIFELINES

John Simmons

Proverbs 29:18 states: "Where there is no vision, the people perish..." In this verse of Scripture God made a statement through Solomon that speaks of an extremely powerful spiritual reality: the life saving power of God given "vision", or the lack of it. God obviously has a vision that He must passionately desire for His church to receive. This Scripture makes it clear that His vision living in His people will allow Him to minister life to those who will otherwise perish.

God has a vision for His Church that He desires to share with us. It is a vision for every individual in His Church. One in which He sees us as being transformed by Him into faithful, obedient servants. Servants who are willing to lay down their lives for the cause of Christ. If we are truly "in Him", we were saved to serve. Christ Himself came not to be served, but to serve. Self-sacrificing love was His only motivation: and if He lives in us, we will sacrifice ourselves and allow Him serve out of love through us, also. I believe that this is the vision that God has for us, for us to allow Christ to love, serve, and heal through us.

God can only accomplish in our lives that which He has first given us a vision of Him accomplishing in us. God desires to give us a vision of what He wants to do in us, for us, and through us. I believe that a big part of God's vision for us is that we would be truly grateful for what He has done for us in Christ: that sincere love and gratitude would be our only motives as Christians. His vision for us sees us allowing His Son to live in us in a big way: a vision of our hearts being His Heart, our hands His Hands. If we receive and allow Him to fulfill within us the vision He has for us, God will make us His living lifelines.

John Simmons © February 1, 2009

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