Vision

Posted by Jay

My vision has always been good. 20/15. When I was young, there was a period of time I lied about my vision being bad because I liked a girl who liked glasses. I don’t remember if it worked.

Although I can see well, I am color blind. Color deficient to be politically correct. I see color, but supposedly I see it different than you. All I know is there is some test and when I take it, I fail and they tell me I’m color blind. So when I take in the view around me, looking at the same thing you are, I see it differently. My vision is different than your vision.

When you work at a church, you are involved in a lot of conversations about what church is, what church should be about, and what it should be doing. At times it seems like no one sees it exactly the same way. I’m not just talking about leadership; I’m talking about everyone in a given church. There are smart, gifted, passionate people who know the Bible inside and out, and have different expectations, emphasis, and priorities for what’s most important and in what order.

So in a church of 100, or 500, or 2,000 or 10,000, whose vision should we trust? Who should we pray for continually that God will give clear and accurate vision to? Who should we seek to encourage, protect, build up, love, fight for and lock arms with? And, when God gives me my own unique vision, whose vision should I seek to line that up with to be sure it is not at cross purposes? At Sunset Presbyterian, his name is Ron Kincaid. And before you think this is a suck up devotional, think again. When it comes to doing a good job at encouraging, protecting, building up, loving, fighting for and locking arms with the man God's entrusted with His vision for Sunset, I am still a little boy who needs to become a man.