We are finally headed in a forward direction and the discussion starts off with Vision. Looking forward, where are we headed? When riding a motorcycle around a curve, the best advice is to look ahead to see where you want to go. If you keep your eyes on the goal, you will intuitively make the steering corrections to get you there and by the way, never look down at the ground, in that case you will also get where you are looking!!
So, the book points us to a discussion about the Kingdom of God. The definition from the book says God’s Kingdom “is the range of God’s will where what God wants done is done.” That earth is a place in God’s creation where God permits His will not to be done. So, we find ourselves living in a place with two choices God’s will or my will be done.
The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 Marks the beginning of Jesus ministry and those chapters offer great insight into how Jesus was trying to give instruction to people about the topic of the day, Vision. The Jewish people had one understanding about the Kingdom of God and Jesus uses the phrase frequently, “You’ve heard it said in days of old… but I say to you…” Jesus is stepping in and trying to frame the Vision for people.
The Bible uses language such as Ambassadors. An ambassador represents one kingdom to another kingdom and that’s the position we find ourselves. Saying yes to Jesus changes our citizenship from one of the world to one of God’s Kingdom. The difficulty is that we are more familiar with the kingdom we live in than the Kingdom we have become part of and that is the challenge of discipleship and spiritual formation.
This is the reason for the challenge to be reading Gods word on a regular basis. It’s the familiarization with God’s way that becomes necessary for us to see the way forward. And to be part of a community of believers because sometimes our motivation can come from the way our brothers and sisters in Christ are living out their story of growth in the ambassadorship we share!!
Our Vision is a very important component in our growth, we move to the thing we are focused on.
Truth, Grace, and Time 