Away for a very long time
I have been away from this blog for a very long time. I love to express myself either orally or in writing. Neither of these skills am I very good at, but nonetheless, I feel compelled to. Birth of a vision, death of a vision My first pastor and my home group leader both spoke of the birth of a vision. God gives you a vision. Of course, you have a choice to follow it or not. Once you decide to follow the vision, days of glory, even amongst great suffering and pain, abound. This is the problem. Those days of glory can be like an intoxicating drug, hooking you into the experience so much h so that you do not want to give it up. Here in lies the problem of the second part, Death of a vision. It is in being able to let go when God is done with the vision. If we are hooked on this drug, we do not want the vision to stop. What God has done through your actions is done and cannot be undone, but sadly, you can. We tend to hold on to this vision, trying to push it beyond that which God inten...