It’s the Lord's ways that are
perfect - the producers of wisdom and restoration in our life. It’s in
this process that rejoicing takes place in our heart as He opens our
eyes and allows us to see it is Him doing the work. In our relationship
with Him, we see Him more and more as who He says He is, as our eyes are
opened to new levels of righteousness. It’s during this process that we
begin to have understanding of how important it is for Him to open our
eyes. It is in His opening of our eyes that we have vision.
He is our vision when He opens
our eyes, we will see. It can be too easy to focus our eyes on His
vision for our life, our purpose, our calling and miss seeing Him who is
the vision. It is possible to miss the vision no matter how much we may
see.
In the year of King Uzziah's
death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the
train of His robe filling the temple. Isaiah 6:1
Uzziah's name means, my
strength is Jehovah. It was in a time of death that the Lord was seen
high and lifted up. We come to a time when even knowing the Lord as our
strength seems to die. It’s in that place where He opens our eyes and we
see Him for who He really is. Not only do we have our eyes opened
to Him there is an opening of our eyes to our own condition and to the
condition of those around us. It is in His vision that we come to know
Him, to be known by Him, and to be willing to go and do what He wills.
The Lord is always speaking in
His still small voice; He always brings us back to Himself. Within the
Lord's purpose for our life, there is reward, but our focus is not on
the reward but on the Lord, Himself, our vision. We do not see ourselves
as the Lord sees us; consequently, we presume and many times miss the
way of the Lord for the time and season. It is only by allowing the
Lord, Himself, not His vision for our life to be Lord, will we be
blameless before Him. It's the Lord, Himself who is making a way for us
to be blameless in His sight.
As the Lord is the center of
our life, the focus of our eye, He becomes our vision. When He is
our vision, our words and our heart will be acceptable to Him. When the
vision He has given us becomes the center of our focus, we become driven
and ruled by things or the way, which seems right. He is our
vision and as we see Him as He is, we become one who is willing to go
where He leads.
Where there is no vision the
people are unrestrained; but happy is he who keeps the law. Prov.
29:18
Where there is no vision, the
people perish, but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Prov. 29:
8
It is this vision of the Lord
Himself that restrains us or keeps us from perishing. The revelation of
who He is brings us to the place where we are willing to walk in a way
with Him that keeps His ways. We are then able to demonstrate the
Lord to those observing our life. It’s this demonstration of who He is
and the lifting Him up as Lord that will draw men unto Him. We have
tried to tell people of the vision He has given us, but we have not
walked in a way, which has demonstrated He is who He says He is. It is
by the demonstration of His power that people will be drawn to Him.
If we do not have a clear
picture of who He is or see Him high and exalted, it can become easy to
live a life style of unrestraint or perish (come to nothing, ruined,
destroyed, or passed away) in the days ahead. Walking in such a way
demonstrating we are practicing or following divine instructions and the
revealed will (law) of the Lord will bring the blessings of the Lord
into our everyday lives. It is in the day to day, the ordinary in which
people seek Him. The world will be drawn to those who are not perishing
in the days ahead for they will be seeking life. The world will be
seeking to know those who are walking in His peace, abundance, and
blessings.
Without vision, the people
perish. He is our vision that which we see, our guiding light. He is the
revelation of the Father in Him and not something He has revealed as
specific purpose or plan for us to follow that will keep us from
perishing. Following "a vision" will cause us to become so focused we
may not see the Lord Himself in our day-to-day situations and
circumstances. Everything we are, do, and say is to be weighed by the
person of the Lord Himself because if so measured by "a vision" there
can be a way opened which seems right, but will eventually lead to our
destruction. Our God is a God of restoration, continuously restoring us
to Himself, as He becomes the focus of our eye, our vision, the
revelation of the Father, the one who is high and lifted up. A vision
may be noble, good, and a blessing but if we allow it to become high and
lifted up, we are serving an idol, which is the created rather than the
creator.
The Lord is calling us unto
Himself to know His ways. He himself has declared He is a jealous God
and we are to have no other before us. It is time to see Him high and
lifted up – exalted - and to know and be known by Him. It is a season
where it is no longer enough to be called to know the Lord, but it is
also our destiny to be known by Him.
Many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name
have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And
then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that
work iniquity. Matt 7:22-23
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