WHEN I WAS a farm boy, being able to see the end result gave meaning to otherwise boring work I had to do…

For example, as I was plowing the field, I would picture my dad planting the corn.  I would visualize the corn growing, being harvested, and taken to the barn to be made into feed for the cows.  The cows produced milk, which provided food for people in the community.

Vision keeps the big picture in front of you.  This picture will bring motivation and energy to the daily grind of the vision coming to pass.  For a vision to be realized there has to be faith in the vision.  I call this the “faith factor”–being persuaded your vision is biblical and taking steps towards it.  The fulfillment of a vision is a process of a series of actions.  The quality of our lives is determined by our vision and the effort we are willing to put into fulfilling it.  Sam Smucker, “The Faith Factor,” God Stories from Lancaster County, 104

“Then the LORD answered me and said:  ‘ Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.  For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.   Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.'”  Habakkuk 2.2-3

Mike Benson