(As we wait for our podcast to be put up…I thought I’d post the intro to my message from this past Sunday up for you to read. Our series is entitled 100 Life Goals: Creating a Vision for Victory. I’ll post part 2 tomorrow.)
I started off God’s Minute which you can read here.
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Minute by minute. Hour by hour. Day by day. Month by month. Year by year. Life goes on.
Many a people have made the mistake of thinking that life won’t go on without them, but with you or without you, time keeps on ticking and life goes on, but sadly, most of us are living but we aren’t fully ALIVE because we exist with the cart before the horse.
Our bills set our budget.
Our job and our boss set our schedule.
McDonald’s makes our menu.
The television lineup sets our sleep patterns.
Pretending like God didn’t give us charge over the time that He gave us, we allow time to squeeze the value out of us instead of us squeezing the value out of time. And at the end of our day, at the end of our month, and the end of our year, at the end of our lives, most of us have nothing or nearly nothing to show for the tens of thousands of days that we have been here on Earth. Indeed, today is day #10,545 in my life and in some ways I feel young, but as I reflect on that number and think of that number for you, I have to wonder, have I, have we lived far beneath our potential? I think so.
And while many reasons exist for why we live beneath our God-given potential, I think that Proverbs 29:18 states it better than any of them…
“Where there is no vision, people perish.”
Hellen Keller, who was deaf and blind, but determined, echoed Proverbs 29:18 when she said this,
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
Where there is no vision, where there is no ability to see the magnificent possibilities of what God could do through you and through us, where there is no vision, people die. Some of them keep on breathing, keep on clocking in, keep on ordering a #1 with cheese and a Coke to drink please, but where there is no vision perish, but God. But God. But God is not through with you and although you may have been vision-less for 10,545 days, today can be the day you decided to do life differently.
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Yo Shaun! Have you thought about doing "Seasons of Love" from Rent in your worship set? It talks about the value of time and the way we should measure that value is in our relationships. I didn't know if that fit into your line of thinking for this series or not…save for later.
Hey Shaun, have you ever seen this website? http://bible-truths.com/
Interesting.