Ask God for a Vision – 2

Have you ever asked God to give you a vision of what he wants you to do? Living without God’s vision for your life is missing the abundant life Jesus came to give you. It is living in mediocrity. It is settling for so much less than God intends for you.

Ephesians 2:10 says we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do. God has a vision for each of us who are born from above and have been made part of his family. He has prepared this vision for us—these good works he wants us to do.

Here is one of the most common reasons we don’t seek God’s vision for our lives: We’re not willing to take a risk.

Ron Hutchcraft tells the story of being invited to go hiking with some friends to see a breathtaking waterfall. So, as they hiked up the mountain, they came to a large stream they needed to cross to get to the waterfall. Not seeing a bridge, he said to his companions, “How do we get across here?”

“Oh,” they said, “you have to walk across the pipe there.” Ron looked at the pipe and saw it was small; it was wet; it was dangerous. And his first reaction was, “Thanks but no thanks. I’ll stay here.” But his friends urged him, “Come on. The view is on the other side. Come on; walk across the pipe.”

Ron had a decision to make. Either stay where he was and miss the view or walk across the pipe. He decided to take the risky way, and he said, “I wouldn’t have missed that view for anything. But I had to walk the pipe to get there.”

Is Jesus calling you to walk across a pipe, but you are afraid to take the risk? Psalm 18:36 says, You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. When we start across the pipe that looks risky, as soon as you set foot on it, the pipe becomes a broad path, and your ankles don’t turn!

Walk across the pipe today. Ask God for a vision. When he gives you one that looks risky, go by faith and prove he can do more than you can ask or think.