Seeing Clearly

Seeing clearly is critical. The other day as I was driving along, the ice and snow was slushy in the streets and that is when I found out that my washer fluid was empty. I made an executive decision that I would keep heading toward my destination without stopping to buy more washer fluid. Bad choice.

As I kept driving my windshield kept getting worse. I would use the wipers every once in a while hoping that the moisture would clean off with a swipe of the wiper blade...no luck. It only smeared it on thicker.

It got so bad, in a short amount of time, that I had to pull off at the nearest gas station and buy a gallon of fluid. Then I had to wait in the parking lot a few extra minutes as the smudge was cleared away with the new fluid and my wipers beat furiously over my windshield.

That is life, friend. You cannot move forward without a clear vision for where you are headed. At least that is what the Scriptures say.

Proverbs 29:18, "Where there is no vision, the people perish..." (KJV)

It can kill a person to drive with the windshield unclear. In fact, there was a recent case here in Des Moines where a young man left his home early one morning and wanting to save time, he didn't take the time to scrape the ice off his windshield, he ended up hitting a 13 year old girl on her way to school. Thankfully, she wasn't killed, but she ended up with broken legs and ribs.

All because one person, in a hurry, thought that he could get to where he was going without seeing clearly. A lesson for us all.

You can not get to where God is wanting to take you in life without clearly having His vision for your life before you. A church cannot become the church God is calling it to be without a clear picture of where it is He is wanting them to go.

In 2008, we find our clarity. You need to fill up your tanks with the fluid of His Word (Ephesians 5:18) and you need to do what it is He is asking you to do. We have aspired as a congregation to INFLUENCE lost people for the sake of Jesus Christ and to CONNECT with other believers in Christ within our church (more than a casual Sunday morning hello) and to DEVOTE ourselves to becoming more like the image of His Son by studying His written Word and finally to HELP wherever we see a need that we know we can fulfill because our gifts from God are for that very purpose!

We make these more than words in a newsletter in 2008, we make them reality! We WILL be the church God is calling us to be. It starts with you.