The Power of Vision

The Power of Vision

By Apostle Felix

2  And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 

Habakkuk 2: 2, 3

Vision helps believers to realize the possibility power of God in any given situation. The Bible is a book of God’s vision of creation, redemption and the new heaven and new earth through Christ. This vision is well documented and articulated. God is not vague in presenting His vision. He is very articulate. The challenge in understanding the vision of God is the cultural and language barrier. The Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek and in a culture that is different from today’s culture. However, the vision is plain and those that read it shall run with it. Habakkuk was a prophet in a time when Judah had apostatized. Judah was going through a political upheaval and was also experiencing a moral decay as a nation. There was also a threat of invasion from the rising Babylonian kingdom. Habakkuk was crying to God for an intervention and of course for God to provide a solution for Judah’s predicament.

What Habakkuk was basically asking for from God was a vision. Judah had lost the vision of their existence. Every time a nation or a people loses a vision, they too lose moral character. We can see how the western countries have morally declined. When they lost the vision of the Holy One, the nations began to morally decline. They started calling evil good, and good evil.

20  “How terrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute what is bitter for what is sweet and what is sweet for what is bitter!”
Isaiah 5: 20

That’s the kind of world that we are living in. A world that has lost godly moral values. A world that is promoting unnatural tendencies to be accepted as natural. Vision is powerful. Judah had lost the vision of preserving the lineage for the promised seed.

Where vision lacks, destruction is inevitable. Due to Judah’s apostasy, destruction was looming through the Babylonians. Of course, Habakkuk complained before God for such a punishment of Judah, using Babylon as an instrument. God responded Habakkuk by asking him to write a vision, whose content was the coming judgement. Whatever situation you might facing today, seek God’s will  and write it down. Every problem come loaded with the potential to be solved. Habakkuk saw a problem and started looking for a solution from God for his people. Vision is the ability to see possibility in a given situation. That’s what Habakkuk was looking for. A vision that will offer possible solutions to Judah’s problems. But Judah was unwilling to repent and return to God, so God allowed the Babylonians to invade them.

To be Continued…