Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
PROVERBS 29:18 KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
VISION is the Hebrew word CHAZOWN which means REVELATION
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
But happy is he who keeps the law.
PROVERBS 29:18 NEW KING JAMES VERSION (NKJV)
What about us as a church?
Are we SHORT SIGHTED, lacking revelation of God?
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1: 13-14 (NKJV)
In the shallows of God, we become confident that His will for our lives is good and will be accomplished!
…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ
Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)
We are able to keep the faith when we focus on the Revelation of Jesus Christ!
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV)
We are all called to the deep things of God!
To know the revelation of God.
Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me-
A prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:7-8 (NKJV)