THE KIND OF VISION WE NEED

Text- Proverbs 29:18

Proverbs 29:18a Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained. (NASB)

Introduction

This morning our text is found in Proverbs 29:18 and the title of my sermon is, "The Kind of Vision We Need".

The word "unrestrained" in the KJV is translated, "perish" and literally means, "out of control".  As God's people, if we do not have a vision, we are going to be "unrestrained", or "out of control" in the service of the Lord.  A French proverbs states: “When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow.”

In a Leadership magazine article, Lynn Anderson described what happens when a people lose their vision.  A group of pilgrims landed on the shores of America about 350 years ago.  With great vision and courage they had come to settle in the new land.  In the first year they established a town. In the second, they elected a town council.  In the third, the government proposed building a road 5 miles westward into the wilderness.  But in the fourth year the people tried to impeach the town council because they thought such a road into the forest was a waste of public funds.  Somehow these forward-looking people had lost their vision. Once able to see across oceans, they now could not look 5 miles into the wilderness.

What kind of vision do we need to have as God's people?