Vision
Dr. John K. Mathew
Just like many of us, Apostle Peter had a problem that he was so ethnocentric. So he was hesitant to go to the house of Cornelius a Gentile. Therefore, God gave him a vision that drastically changed his perspective and ministry. God used a vision about food to teach Peter that the Gentiles were not unclean. Peter was hungry and a vision about food would reveal the truth. Peter used to live as an orthodox Jew all his life and strictly observed Moses's regulations on food. The law of Moses was a wall between the Jews and the Gentiles and this vision brought spectacular change in the ministry of Peter and the history of Christianity. Apostle Paul also was a man of vision. It was his vision that changed the destiny of Europe and consequently the entire world. A genuine vision can bring incredible change and progress.
About 400 years ago a shipload of travelers landed on the Northeast coast of America. The first year they established a town site. The next year they elected a town government. In the third year, the town government planned to build a road five miles Westward into the wilderness.
In the fourth year, the people tried to impeach the town government because they thought building a road was a waste of public funds. Who needed to go there anyway? But all those countless miles of superhighways that connect the United States and its proud position as a nation on wheels started with that five miles of road to the wilderness produced by the vision of a few in the settlement. It is the vision of great people that pulls us forward. What is vision? It is seeing the invisible. The story of Martin Luther King Jr. is amazing.
He started with a small slogan that anyone can repeat, I have a dream. It came to pass despite all opposition. Vision is powerful. Cling to it to the end.
