Do you have a God vision? What is a God vision? Those are good questions and for the past two days I worked on a blog entry about God vision. Last night in a pit and feeling what I had wrote was junk I deleted it and went to bed. I had a lot, but I didn't feel it was right and didn't carry what I wanted to communicate. The thing about a real God vision is just like any vision - it's hard. The one thing different about a God vision from a man vision is supernatural power at work to help carry it to fulfillment.
But, is super natural power from God through enough to carry out a God vision?
Honestly, I can thing of arguments and points for both sides of that question. Yes, God is all powerful and all knowing. Yet, does everyone who has come to faith in Jesus Christ actually live out and fulfill the God vision they were to fulfill and live out?
I have a fortune cookie saying I found in a cookie years ago on a day much like yesterday, it said, "Every truly great accomplishment is at first impossible." Thats pretty smart insight for man's wisdom. I still have that slip today stuck in the corner of a picture in my room so I am reminded of that often.
What I'd like to do is open this up and ask for feedback. I have a pounding headache today and I don't want to just "wing" this. Sometimes the best way to go about doing something is by asking questions. Let's see what everyone has on this. If you are reading this via email then you will need to come to my blog to leave a comment.
Interesting question. I think I'm wrestling with something similar, but from a different perspective.
There was a time in my life that I thought it meant big, and daring, and impossible, I thought if I didn't have a vision that met those criteria, I somehow wasn't measuring up. I tried to force it, force myself into a role that God never created me to fill. One of leadership, and volume. In the end, it really boiled down to the fact that I was pursuing it, because I thought that's what made me matter (to God, and to others).
Through a lot of life experiences, I've learned that God didn't design me that way, and that's not only ok, it's perfect! And that having a "vision" (like that) doesn't make me matter any more or any less.
Now my God visions are smaller, they are out of an overflow, and they happen more naturally, for the most part. I still wrestle with some things, there are things I'm still waiting on, and there are things that seem impossible, but in a different way.
So I guess I would define it as something that God has made you to do, and happens out of the overflow of your relationship to Him. It might be leading a small group, or designing a website. It might be starting a ministry that meets a need close to your heart. It might be easy, and it might be difficult. I don't know that there is a formula for determining what your supposed to do, or determining if something is or isn't a God vision. I think it might look different for everyone.