VISION
Vision is the foresight with
insight based on hindsight
Nothing worthwhile has ever been achieved without
the force of vision. The greatest gift ever given to man is not
the gift of sight but the gift of vision.
Sight is the function of the eyes but vision is the function of the heart. Sight is necessary for the present but vision is crucial for
the future. When you are able to see a preferred and a possible future, you
have in essence captured a vision. When you see God’s intimate plans for your
future, you have ultimately seen your vision
If you are ever going to achieve much in 2014, then
you have to be able to visualize the end of 2014 in your mind just as you have
desired and decided. The principle of vision states that, “whatever you see, you can be”, and “whatever you can visualize,
you can actualize”. In a world where
the sight of economies, governments, and society at large is utterly discouraging,
disheartening
and depressing;
one must have the capacity to see beyond the present if he wishes to have the
faith to believe in the future. There is always more to what the eyes could see,
we need our hearts to see God’s perfect picture.
Vision
protects us against the present predicaments of this transient world in which
we live; it’s our only hope against the storms of today. Vision is a source of inspiration in the face of present frustrations. If the picture of the
divine future we saw, is not what we see in the present, then what we see in
the present is temporal.
Thomas Edison envisaged a world with lights though
he himself lived in the dark. It was his vision of a brighter world that
inspired him to invent the light bulb, though he was seeing candles with his
eyes yet he could see light bulb with his heart. Vision is everything. Graham Bell
is no different, he was deaf in one ear but he invented the telephone. With
vision, his present predicament never became a permanent impediment to achieving his dreams. To succeed, you must see beyond
present realities, you must see future
eventualities.
Possess vision and you become untouchable and
unstoppable by the challenges of life. The old sage of Israel, King Solomon said that due to
the lack of vision, people’s lives are destroyed. He was saying in essence,
when a people cannot envision a
better tomorrow, they abuse and misuse today.
Without the image and the knowledge of a preferred future; today will lose its essence, time
its purpose, activity will lack meaning and energy will have no direction.
Today matters! Capture
the picture of that divine future! See that book launch! See
yourself receiving that award! See yourself at that matriculation or better
still at that graduation. See yourself becoming whatever you were created to
become. See the end of this year and then begin it! Have no bifurcated thinking
I said; see it and then begin it. Because if you want to seize it, you MUST see it!
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