The view is better from the mountaintop (2)

The value of vision

The bible describes vision as Witnessing something supernatural that is not visible to the naked eye. May be related to God’s working in the present or the future

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

Chuck Swindoll

More than 6,000 people around the world have climbed Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world. Climbers have to train and take their bodies to extreme limits in order to see a view from a mountaintop that sits 29,029 feet above sea level. Their single goal is to make it to the top of the mountain. Inevitably, they understand that with this journey comes struggle, pain, sacrifice and sometimes death. They are not alone in their desire to reach the highest point on earth. Some made it and many others died along the way. For those fortunate to make it, the last mile of the hike is the most brutal. The air is so thin that oxygen tanks are required. Fighting fatigue, potential disorientation, frostbite and altitude sickness, climbers continue to climb. They do it year after year with the aid of Tibetan Sherpa guides.

I ask myself what drives these people to want to risk their lives to climb this mountain? I thought one thing; vision.

There is a vision inside of these people to climb this mountain with the sole purpose to have a paranomic view, or vision that they otherwise cannot see at the bottom.

I came to tell you this morning the view is better from the mountaintop.

The Bible says in Proverbs 29:18

Where there is no vision, the people perish:

Notice that it doest say where there is no money the people perish. Or where there is no food the people perish. Or where is no social media the people perish. Where there is no vision the people perish.

The word perish means “wander off, be lost,

I believe that the reason many of us are wandering off or lost in the valleys, simply because we have no vision.

It is emperative that we climb the mountain of God in order to develop vision.

Vision drives your passion

Vision drives your purpose

Vision drives your life

Come with me to the book of Habakkuk 2:1–3 “I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.”

So how can we develop vision for our lives? I’m so glad that you asked

To get vision you have to be in position.

Habakkuk says that he would take a stand on his watchpost and station himself on the tower. And look to out to see what he would say to me.

Habakkuk is saying I’m listening with my eyes open!

You cannot hear from God with eyes closed.

2. The vision must be visible.

Wait for the vision.

That doesn’t mean that idle wait

soak the vision in prayer

take steps of actions

Waiting doesnt mean that you sit idle

You have to be in position to recieve the vision.He had made his complaint and now he resolved to position himself so he might obtain the earliest and clearest information and then, like a watchman, inform his waiting brethren. t is likely that the watch (mišmereṯ, “observation station”) and the ramparts (māṣôr, “watchtower or fortress”) refer to the prophet’s attitude of expectation rather than his physical location. You wont be able to see what youre not expecting to see.