Vision

What do you see yourself as? What do you see when you look in the mirror? Better question, what would that mirror reflect if it were looking at your heart?

As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. Proverbs 27:19

Who do you have a heart to serve? Yourself, the world, your family, God? The choices we make for that can form the patterns of our heart. Is my Vision to focus on my image, my imagination or the imaging of a man or woman reflecting the love of God?

In the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in the Chapter titled A Vision For You, it warns us that these "Four Horsemen" can take us out if our vision is misplaced: Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair. No one wants blurred vision, but my personal experience is that losing focus can quickly turn into one of those four. And when it does, our heart reacts, usually without love.

God has a vision for us: My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. Bind them with your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 7:1-5

Now that's some vision, making God and his ways the "apple of our eye" rather than all those other things that eventually become rotten apples. And if they are written on the tablets of our heart they are indelibly forged into our spirit that will reflect the greatest two commandments. Let me remind you what Jesus said:

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important, love your neighbor as yourself. All the other commandments and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.

A heart of love reflects a vision of hope, encouragement, acceptance and forgiveness. In God's optometry that would be 20/20 eyesight focused directly on Him.

The original Big Apple!