Yielding to God’s Vision-Part 1

Acts 16:9, 10 “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.”

Unlike other animal species we are the rare exception in that we can see colors. We tend to think of things in visual ways with pictures. Even when we think about concepts we tend to do so in visual ways.

One of the realities of being visually oriented as a species however is that many times what we imagine doesn’t always look like what we expect it to be. This can be either good or bad. At either rate, when things don’t appear the way we expect them to we have to learn how to adjust our vision or we become agitated and blind.

 Most Christians have a vision of what they think the Christian life will be like. Yet, what we expected from God doesn’t always match the vision we had. It’s how we respond in those moments in our life when reality doesn’t match the vision we had or have that can result in fulfillment or failure.

The Christian life is full of tough calls, and we either become more and more agitated when the vision we had doesn’t pan out exactly like we thought, or we adjust and discover the wonder of God doing things in our life we never expected or at least somewhat different from what we expected.

The Bible is full of situations that didn’t match up exactly with the vision some originally had. We learn through these examples the importance of letting go of the vision as they expected it and adjusting to what God really intended to do.

 Remember that God’s will is not found so much in what we do as much as it is in what we are. When our focus is on God we cannot become disappointed even when our vision doesn’t pan out exactly like we expected.