Choosing to move forward in life can be a chore.
…the people cast off restraint [or the people are discouraged]…
- Proverbs 29:18, ESV
We need vision.
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
- Proverbs 29:18
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. 2 And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.”
- Habakkuk 2:1-2
God’s Mission gives vision to every Christian.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
- Genesis 3:15
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
- Matthew 28:19-20
We can search for, see, and seize the opportunities around us.
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
- Acts 1:8