Looking through the window of a vision

Looking Through The Window Of A Vision

When we look out a window, we expect to see something intriguing. With curiosity we look, hoping to get answers such as "what was that noise?", "how is the weather outside?", or with great expectation, "is he or she home yet?". We ask these questions within ourselves with the expectation of getting positive answers, not negative ones. I think this is how we should look into a New Year. Yes, we are motivated and positive the first month, but sustaining that joy and motivation has to continue if we are to get the results of the true positive vision we want to see. Yes there will be raining days, clouds, and circumstances that arises. And yes, some things that are not in our control, but when we continue to focus on the outcome that we want and not the present "not so good" circumstances of what is going on at the present time, we allow ourselves to focus on the prize and not on the trials that will ultimately lead there. When it's raining outside, how long do you look at the rain? Do you stay there at the window until it stops?  I surely hope that most times that answer is no, unless you are utilizing that time as rest and meditation. Instead we do something else until the rain ceases, expecting that it will indeed cease.  

What we are able to see beyond what is actually happening, determines our outlook on life and our sustained vision. The dictionary describes a vision as "the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom". Another definition is "a mental image of what the future will or could be like".  The book of Proverbs, Chapter 29, Verse 18 says "without a vision the people perish."  So we see that it takes imagination, wisdom, and the ability to see beyond our present state to achieve the things we desire or hope for, in order for our vision to come to past and to prevent our very existence from perishing.  And of course that takes faith!  According to the Bible in the book of Hebrews, Chapter 11 Verse 1, "faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen" (KJV).  If you don't believe you have the faith, then I challenge you to look through the scriptures and read stories of the men and women of faith in the bible who had to trust God to bring to past favorable results in their lives. Yes we too can dream big! Because we serve a big God that wants us to succeed in life, prospering in the things he desires for us.  Now that we've opened a new chapter in our lives for 2017, I say to you quoting 3 John Chapter 2 of the bible.  I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospereth. Be blessed in 2017 and beyond.